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October 26, 2005

It shouldn’t happen to a sys-admin

“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”

“What’s the problem?” I asked.

“We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. “Come again?”

“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated. “A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.”

- The case of the 500-mile email

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stealth turd

“Many of the human vs. computer themes show up in WarGames (1983), and even this past summer, Hollywood squeezed out a little cinematic turd called Stealth, which my favorite newspaper The Onion hailed as “the most chilling look at artificial intelligence run amok since Short Circuit 2.”

- Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?

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October 24, 2005

Going to Hull…

Trick or Treat is going to be quite competitive this year

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October 13, 2005

If you have to ask…

“Standing in the garden with a hair dryer pointed about one’s body might make more sense, because at least the heat source would be directed towards the target instead of just radiating up into the heavens.”
- Is it OK … to use a patio heater?

(Via MeFi)

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October 11, 2005

GWEI

“We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on our hidden web-sites and our show-case site GWEI.org. With this money we automatically buy Google shares via our Swiss e-banking account. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end we will own it!”

- Google Will Eat Itself

Performance art or get-rich-quick scheme?

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October 7, 2005

“All boys that she’d know before had avoided hygiene…”

Have a gander at the video to the Pipettes’ catchy new single ‘Dirty Mind’ (MPEG, 11mb). They are all rather fetching.

(Dirty Mind / Because It’s Not Love will be released on the Memphis Industries label in November)

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October 5, 2005

Gerald Wiley

Who was Gerald Wiley? - a great anecdote about the sadly, recently departed Ronnie Barker

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