Life with kids

This is my favorite peewee: why on earth companies insist on spamming people? It just creates bad karma.

A few weeks ago Soprano spammed me, and I duly reported the incident at sfnet.viestinta.roskapostit. I sent them a response telling them to stop spamming any of my domains. I also called Academica, where a guy that called himself  "Suhonen" told me that he'll do something about it.

I also asked him what their anti-spam policy was. He couldn't tell and told that mr   Broadstreet" would be able to discuss the matter with me, unfortunately he wasn't in at the moment. I left him a message asking him to contact me.

That call never came.

Now Soprano spammed me again. I'll have to call Academica again. Stay tuned!

I gave a lecture for tax inspectors regarding internet, including various internet shops and what have you. I came across an interesting web site: it printed T-shirts that others have designed, and the designers got money for each sale. The site was Cafepress.

Then a few weeks later I got totally mad at various delivery lorry drives, who, instead of parking near the curb where there is lots of space available, decide to park in the driveway, two meters to the left of the curb!

Well, I decided I need a t-shirt for that. I found out that there is a European supplier operating in a similar way, called Spreadshirt. I decided to open a shop there with my collegue, Jokke.

Now you can see the t-shirt stemming from the frustration of those who cannot walk. The rest of the designs you can find at NerdsRUs shop.

I was installing linux for a friend this evening.

Those who suggest that end-users install the bloody thing are out of their minds!

If Joe Average can get M$ Windows installed badly, I cannot imagine what they can do with linux!

Decided to run my own blog for a change, so I got an account at kapsi and set up the blog there. The url'll change when I direct my domains here, but the contents will remain.

I decided to run BLOG:CMS, since it seemed easy to set up,  kapsi servers were up to the requirements that the sw had, and BLOG:CMS seemed to have the features I wanted.

I can warmly recommend KAPSI if you have personal web sites to run, or otherwise need shell access. Their administration has been excellent: friendly and knowledgeable. Granted, it is volunteer run, but responsetimes have been good (a day or two, compared to weeks with the inflexible ISPs we have here).

For 30 eur membership fee/year you can get www space, shell access and loads of other stuff. Only for Finns, though.

And spammers have it!

What else could you think when you consider the accuracy of their targetting. I for example have got these ads recently:
“Get an Online Unversity Degree” - I wonder how they knew I was thinking of getting a bit more education
“A Brighter, Prosperous Future” - Retirement early has been always my dream
“Extra 3 i.nches on average!” - Hmm.
“Get Meds Fast and Cheap” - this wouldn’t hurt
“Voluptuous sluts get DIRTY!” - I’m married, need I say more?
“New! Viagra soft tabs.” - things just ain’t the way they used to be
“Irresistible to the opposite sex” - it would be flattering, although I’m not sure if I knew what to do if this really happened
“9% Improvement in muscle mass” - so I wouln’t be so geek like.

In the view of the above, I think I should start asking hard questions questions about my relatives:
“is your sister in pain” - I didn’t know I had any
“Sick of big brother dipping into your pockets?” - Hmm. yet another one to split the inheritance