July 31, 2004
An email from Mr Wang Qin???
Dear Sir,
Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr. Wang Qin credit officer of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd. I have a concealed business suggestion for you.Before the U.S and Iraqi war our client General. Ibrahim Moussa who was with the Iraqi forces and also business man made a numbered fixed deposit for 18 calendar months, with a value of Twenty millions Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only in my branch.
...BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...
Kind Regards,
Mr. Wang Qin
July 29, 2004
Openjay.org
OpenJay.org : - a resource for OpenSource DjsFeel the Curves!
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cokelore (Feel the Curves!) This poster was released in the mid 80s and prompted a total recall of all posters because of the picture painted in ice-cubes at bottom right corner - a woman performing an act. The graphic artist who designed the picture put this in as a joke, and it went through unnoticed until someone spotted it on the back of a Coke truck. The artist lost his job and was sued, and all promotional material had to be recalled and destroyed. Very rare and hard to get hold of — released in South Australia in mid '80s.July 28, 2004
Jenny18 makes a lot of men look very, very stupid
Jenny18 - A Cybersex Bot Implemented in ElizaWoo-hoo! Listen-to is coming back
Listen-To: What Do You Listen-To? Back in May, we had announced that Listen-To would be shutting down. After some thought, and a bunch of nice e-mails, we have decided that Listen-To will return. The next version of the software is being developed, and during that process the site will be offline. When it returns, it will be a 100% new site.Gnome Rhythmbox Applet
Rhythmbox Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmbox's playback from a panel. You'll need Rhythmbox 0.8.0 or later installed for this to do anything useful.Google GMail Loader
Mark Lyon's GMail Loader (GML) - Import Your Mail into GMail
"Some of the benefits of GMail are the large storage space, easy labeling of messages (instead of sorting into folders), and quick Google-powered searching. As an email packrat, I jumped at the opportunity to have all my email easily searchable. I decided I would import all my old email from Netscape Communicator 4.7 (which had messages in it dating back to 1994). There was no upload feature included with GMail, however.
So I wrote one."
Limit customer spam with DynamicRelay
DynamicRelay prevents your customers from sending spam, and authenticates users using POP or IMAP to send email in a pop-before-smtp fashion. You can use it with the wu-imap, dovecot, Courier, and Qpopper IMAP/POP servers, and with Postfix or Sendmail. You set the limit to the number of email messages a user can send per day.July 27, 2004
Forever by the Beach Boys
Went to Brian Wilson (Smile tour) on Saturday - it was wonderful. He dedicated an amazing song called "Forever" off the Sunflower album to his late bandmates and brothers Carl and Dennis Wilson.July 26, 2004
Original Penguin by Munsingwear
I've become a bit of a fan of "Original Penguin" Polo shirts by Munsingwear but there don't seem to be many places in the UK that stock it...
Ah diddums
Ananova - Colin 'dumped by pulling mate' Colin Farrell has reportedly been dumped by his 'pulling mate' Calum Best because he always gets the best girls.July 25, 2004
MP caught watching porn in parliament
- MP caught watching porn in parliament - unfortunately not the UK ParliamentJuly 23, 2004
My top 5 songs of all time
Band of Gold - Freda PayneDon't stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
All Night Long - Lionel Ritchie
Together in Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey
Smokebelch II - Sabres of Paradise
July 22, 2004
Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans
Cafe Review - the bloke that does this must be a big porker
mtsend.py - command line MT posting
Just testing out mtsend.py for command
line blog posting. In combination with this:
alias blog='cp ~/.blog-def /tmp/blogit; jmacs /tmp/blogit; cat /tmp/blogit | /dls/mtsend.py -N'
alias (~/.blog-def is a blank template file in the format it needs), it's very convenient & fast.
GD has GIF support again
Gd has support for reading and writing GIF images again as the GIF patent has expired! Screw you Unisys!Soulseek for linux
nicotine - a soulseek client for linux.Culture Club: Volume 2 (nothing to do with Boy George)
This album looks superb. But how comes the top 3 google hits are in Australia and Amazon UK & Play.com don't appear to have it?
July 21, 2004
Remember Alien Breed? Here's Alien Swarm
Alien Swarm is an overhead view tactical squad-based shooter for UT2K4. Set in the the distant future, the players take the role of a Commander in the Interstellar Armed Forces. They must guide their squad of marines through Swarm infested colonies, overrun bases and outposts, to achieve a variety of objectives. Featuring Assault Rifles, Heat Tracking Guns, Sentry Guns, Flamethrowers and more. Supports co-operative multiplayer.
And it all reminds me very much of Alien Breed.
July 20, 2004
My latest CD purchase: Tim Love Lee - The Trip
Tim Love Lee - The Trip. Includes Ultravox, The Jacksons, Duke Ellington and erm, Shed 7.
July 19, 2004
Why do XFM play Jet "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" so much
I thoroughly agree with this thread on the XFM messageboards. Also, why do they hide their live stream URLs behind popups, javascript and frames? To ensure non-IE users can't listen?July 17, 2004
Wolfenstein 5K
Wolfenstein 5K - A fun first-person 3D shooting game in 5k of JavaScript The classic shooter, miniaturized
Coded in only 5K of Javascript
July 15, 2004
"I was drunk"
Ananova - Man tries to sue over orgy
"Whoever takes part in an orgy knows what is coming and does not have the right to complain later."
July 14, 2004
t-prot - sanitize mailing lists
Sanitize mailing lists with t-prot, a filter that reformats incoming mails.July 13, 2004
Club Beer is back!
Club Beer is back!
FRIDAY 13TH AUGUST at The BUFFALO BAR
Underneath the Famous Cock Tavern, right outside Highbury & Islington tube,
9pm-2am
From the website:
"No, it wasn't dead, just in a long booze induced coma. After a year wandering the streets looking for small change, the cavalcade of alcohol fuelled debauchery that is CLUB BEER is back off the wagon and back to worry the streets of London.
Once again we can sate your baser instincts to get stupid with drink and stagger around to the likes of the Minder theme tune at the club that has the best music policy in the world...
WE PLAY MUSIC THAT ONLY SOUNDS GOOD WHEN YOU'RE DRUNK. "
Am I Right - Misheard Lyrics and Song Parodies
Am I Right - Misheard Lyrics and Song Parodies Making fun of music. One song at a time...
Pure 80s Pop
Pure 80s Pop reliving 80s music. Welcome to pure 80s pop - A Web site Dedicated to the UK Pop Music Charts of the 80s! Remembering Eighties Music in the 21st century.
RPM tip
Find out the last RPMs you installed withrpm -qa --last | less
July 12, 2004
Qm - The Quick Mailer
Qm - The Quick Mailer. A 45kb exe (20k zip) for sending mail very quickly
SMSsend - send SMSes from the command line
SMSsend for linux and windows - send SMSes from the commandline from multiple network providers. If you're compiling on linux, you'll need skyutils too.July 11, 2004
London Vehicles
London Vehicles - Europe's answer to 64 player Tribes 2 Mayhem. The map does rotate from Katabatic, so "Berta Lives" won't be seen on there.
Awful Plastic Surgery
Awful Plastic Surgery - the good, bad, and ugly of celebrity plastic surgery
Google Watch gets preposterous
Googlewatch insinuates that Google via the Google's Cookie are going to implant a brain implant in you. Important information about GoogleWatch
Mozilla Thunderbird & Courier IMAP server problem
If your SSL certificate expires on your Courier IMAP server and you generate a new one, you may get this error when restarting thunderbird "your certificate contains the same serial number". To avoid this go into Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Manage Certificates and remove your old certificate.
Planet Perl
Planet Perl - interesting weblog clippings style site from people in the Perl community
July 10, 2004
July 09, 2004
July 07, 2004
Skype - P2P Internet Telephony
Skype is free and simple software that will enable you to make free calls anywhere in the world in minutes. Skype, created by the people who brought you KaZaA, uses innovative P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other Skype users. Been trying it out - good quality and not much lag.July 06, 2004
July 05, 2004
World's cutest website
Japanese puppy mania (caution: may take some time to load)
Never Scared - Hollertronix
Never Scared by Hollertronix sounds very good: "From old school booty rap to '80s rock, Never Scared celebrates the excitement that music can create. It's true they really haven't created any new music here, but they breathe life into songs that were left for dead, and they definitely change your perspective on the music they include here. Thanks to Hollertronix, mix tapes are finally fun again."TinyApps.org
tinyapps.org - tiny apps such as a 15k http get application.HijackThis - kill IE spyware
HijackThis - a great tool for removing dodgy IE plugins (although you should really have moved to firefox by now). HijackThis, a general homepage hijackers detector and remover. Initially based on the article Hijacked!, but expanded with almost a dozen other checks against hijacker tricks. It is continually updated to detect and remove new hijacks. It does not target specific programs/URLs, just the methods used by hijackers to force you onto their sites.July 04, 2004
Black Album Remixes
Jay-Z All The Black Album Remixes - many many remixes of "The Black Album".
July 03, 2004
July 02, 2004
Sh*t Adverts
A new blog dedicated to the worst adverts you've ever seen.July 01, 2004
Girls Aloud - The Show Review
Girls Aloud - The Show starts like "We like to party" by the Vengaboys, followed by some flat vocals that go nowhere.
That doesn't look like a Vic-20 to me
Commodore challenges Apple digital music dominance: Commodore is back, this time with its an MP3 player. Dubbed the e-Vic, it's named after the old Vic-20 games machine. The connection: the e-Vic has a 20GB hard drive.