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It's been a while...
...since I got a really good one. But here, at last, is a doozy.
( I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise, Please accept the content in good faith... ) -
Eurovision - The Final
Well, it's final time, which means we're well rid of those two radio talkers and get Graham Norton instead, which is not quite as good as Wogan but a vast step up on the others and actually was fairly entertaining last year ( Read more... ) -
Eurovision 2011 - Semi-Final 2
Well, I did a writeup last year, so I might as well do another one this year. I'm not going to bother going back over Semi-Final 1 - though I was pleased to see that the standard of songs (if not singers) was, overall, higher than usual - but just post my musings on SF 2 as I go along ( Read more... ) -
The FBI wants to give me money!
Got a good one today:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Counter-terrorism Division and Cyber Crime Division
J. Edgar. Hoover Building Washington DC
Attention Beneficiary,
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HP Tech Support: "A Rich And Fruity Carneval of Dumbassery"
My wife has a Compaq 615 laptop. Compaq is owned by HP, and thus shares its tech support structure, although for reasons that will become apparent the word "structure" may be a misnomer ( Read more... ) -
Quis custodiet ipsos patres?
This morning I read an article in This Is True. On its own, it elicited nothing but nodding agreement from me.( Story and remarks behind the cut. ) -
Morning musings
I got another piece of spam this morning, an email offering to sell me an old Chinese sailing ship.
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A really plausible email from DHL (allegedly)
This just arrived, and, well, it seems convincing. I think I'll open the attachment, I'm really convinced that it's legit.
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Dawn of War
A while ago I watched the Ultramarines computer-generated feature film Games Workshop released. And yeah, I suppose it's not bad. But there are so many things wrong with it - the plot's weak (at least by the standards of its writers; merely mediocre by anyone else's) and suffused with blatant stupidity, the environments bland and empty, and the ( Read more... ) -
Activation codes
I just set up a new website, and as part of the process I got an activation code (now obsolete, of course, and thus declassified). And it was a neat code:
ROKWOK
Oh yeah. I have a wok (three, in fact), I enjoy cooking stuff in it, and I enjoy eating the rather nice bacon fried rice I cook in it.
I rock my wok.