I always used to wonder why there was an option, in many spam engines, to block out any mail coming from China (the country). It didn’t seem to me like that big a deal, and anyway stuff coming from Russia seemed far more suspect to start with. Until this past week. You see, it appears that Chinese ISPs filter outgoing mail and harvest outgoing email addresses, selling the address lists to spammers.
It’s, like, strike 30 against Sony now…
Sony DRM makes some of their DVDs unplayable on many DVD players. I’m starting to honestly think that there’s a guy who works at Sony whose job is to come up with new, innovative ways to anally rape the customer. Good thing I didn’t end up buying one of their defective-by-design Casino Royale DVDs — I was actually considering getting a copy, but I certain shall not do so now.
A trip from hell.
This is a special entry tonight for those who like to revel in the misery of others. Well, you lot can have a bloody good laugh at the predicament I’m in right now, because I think it reflects a whole new high in the science of achievements in the history of screw-ups. And possibly fraud as well. Fortunately I’m able to follow this very closely and essentially stop anything potentially really bad from happening, but right now the situation is so stupidly bad it’s getting funny, at least to my very exhausted mind.
New ‘About’ page
I’ve occasionally had (verbal) feedback requesting my email address, which wasn’t shown anywhere on the site; well now that information, as well as other contact methods and a zany bio, are displayed on the new About page.
New York on Sunday.
Boy, I really know how to pick my weekends for travelling. It’s raining so hard in New York today that if you walk outside just for 5 minutes your clothes are completely soaked through with rain. For a walking-around kind of city like NYC, this means a really shitty day out. So, I’m paying $150 a day (just the hotel) for the priviledge of being soaked with New York rain instead of Montreal rain. I don’t think I’m getting my money’s worth…
That’s the nice thing about neocons, they’re so virtuous.
Wolfowitz acknowledges arranging for the promotion of his then-girlfriend at the World Bank. Gee, it’s not like he’d give someone a nearly-200K/year job just because he was sleeping with her, could it be? Seriously? Bueller?
A not-so good deal…
Remember my new PC? Well, it’s back at the store now (grrr!). A recurring BIOS corruption issue hinted that there was something wrong with the motherboard, so it’s been returned. It’s not a good deal if it doesn’t work, now, is it…
Site News
If you think I deleted a few entries, you’re correct. Why? They sucked. What better reason can there be?
Funny how simple statistics can be so soul-crushing…
Why I will never have a girlfriend, by Tristan Miller. A relentlessly analytical look at love from a probabilistic point of view.
The demon weed.
As those close to me know I quit smoking right before New Year’s. This was partly for general health reasons, and partly at the urging of someone, and I was pretty successful — or so I thought — at kicking the habit. Until last week. I decided to smoke again and put plans of quitting on the back burner for a while.