Phew. Spend more that 1,5 hours to get to the office this morning. Traffic was horrendous due to bad weather. Snow, wind, hail and rain. Everything they can throw at us. Here is a small clip that shows the snow on my car. In this part I was actually still moving. But right around the corner it stopped and it took me an hour to barely get 10 miles further. Good thing I had a newspaper with me.
Cheney – Whittington cover-up
‘Blatant lie’ When I heard about a week and a half ago about US vice-president Dick Cheney accidentaly shooting a guy, I didn’t think that much of it. I mean: accidents happen. But then some details started to leak out to the press. The fact that Cheney tried to keep the press out of the whole story, the fact that Cheney did not have the right permit, the fact the local sherif didn’t interview anyone until the day after etc. etc. And who can blame the guy for it: the more facts leak out the more stupid it all looks. […]
Customer support the Adobe way: braindead
‘Fuckstomer Support’ So what the heck ever happened to ‘customer first’ and all that? What is it that companies do not get about the ‘customer’ and the ‘service’ in ‘customer service’ ? Why is it so hard to actually help a customer, let alone give them the feeling they are welcome and appreciated? This week showed me another excruciating example of a total lack of coordination, service and apathy when I tried to get a hold of someone in sales at Adobe in the Netherlands. And all I want is some information about their Adobe Graphics Server. So first I […]
Got vista?
Got it? Some time ago I wrote about the new and improved Windows Vista, although details where very sketchy at the time. In the mean time I have downloaded the latest beta version (didn’t have the time yet to fool around with it though) and read about all the new features (most of them are utterly useless in my humble opinion). Well, talking of useless: have you seen the proposed versions Vista will be available in? Holy toledo Batman, who has come up with this plan? What is this? Let’s confuse everyone and then hope they will still buy it? […]
Bulletin Board resurrected
I resurrected my phpBB2 bulletin board so people can discuss the Rayburn case there instead of on the original Blog. Just go to: The Rayburn Files. Somone also posted the case on the John Douglas Mindhunter Forums. I wonder is anyone will ever really crack the case.
I see dead pixels!
Exhibit ‘A’ While the world as we know it is probably ending (because we are very likely on the eve of an ‘ELE’ not caused by a comet but by a 12 Monkeys like outbreak of H5N1), all I can obsess about right now, is a dead pixel in my 17″ monitor. Yup, my Acer AL1715 that is about a year old is displaying a dead pixel. You can see it only on a dark background and shows up as red (see exhibit A). First I thought it was a speck of dust and tried to rub it off. Very […]
Re-introducing Windows Vista
Original or fake? Ok, we all know how good Microsoft is about ‘inventing’ new things and coming up with new, original ideas right? Well this year we will see the coming of yet another fresh, cool Windows: Vista! Yeah.. Right. Well, to get a sneak preview of it, watch these three part video of Vista getting re-introduced by Bill Gates himself: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.Yup, Micro$oft pulls it off once again. Way to go guys!
Goolag: exporting censorship one search at a time
Google/Goolag Haha, this is funny. Last month I blogged about Google censoring it’s China search engine version. And now Boingboing is reporting that some (h)activists are starting a parody/boycot against Google calling it Goolag (a spoof on the old Russian gulag archipel work camps).
Hack-attack
Routinely going through my logs and checking all my stuff. Off course I come over some shitty (and annoying) hack attacks: The Apache server on localhost:80 hackers top ten and their attempts: 200.14.96.57 6 attempts203.70.53.152 21 attempts203.70.53.157 6 attempts203.70.53.40 6 attempts218.69.111.102 6 attempts220.134.4.67 2 attempts221.169.56.134 22 attempts Multiple Vendor HTTP CONNECT TCP Tunnel attack 66 timesUnknown HTTP method (hex encoded) attack 14 times There were a total of 80 attempts by 18 persons/hosts Another very annoying thing: 90% of all traffic to my site is from spambots attempting to somehow leave links to their websites. Shit like this: 82.76.75.63 – […]
Scare Tactics
The Real Terrorist Going over my blog I found that I never wrote about the excellent BBC documentary called “The Power of Nightmares”. The documentary (written and produced by Adam Curtis) goes into the weird transition politics have underwent from basically a optimistic world view to a vision of fear. And it all boils down to one important thing: control. A perfect example of scare tactics is George Bush’s politics. As I wrote before, the US is rapidly becoming it’s own worst enemy. Another fine example is Bush spying on his own citizens under the pretence of it being nessecary […]