For anyone who has been reading my pages about Fighting email harvesters and other unfriendlies. using .htaccess and other methods, here is a new one to add to your black lists.
ac903d6b.ipt.aol.com – – [18/Feb/2004:22:41:30 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1” 200 0 “http://blog.johnkerry.com” “StarProse Referrer Advertising System 2004”
Hopefully this is some hill billy John Kerry fan (Presidential candidate) and not the man himself being silly.
A few weekends ago I was bored and it was too hot to go outside so I started playing with some of my nearly 4 000 photos that I have taken over the last 4 years.
I wanted a good selection of high contrast black and white photos and finally settled on 72 of my favorites. Eventually I had to get that down to 20 and today I have a collection of what I consider my 20 best photos for the black and white medium. I have a number of photos that contains people in various activities and specifically did not include them here, watch out for them later on.
The photos were all taken with either a Olympus C3000z, Nikon 5700, Canon IXUS v3 or my latest camera a Canon IXUS 400. Be sure to have your display to at least 1024 x 768 for optimal viewing. Any comments would be much appreciated.
The photos are here, all the work is licenced under the Creative Commons license that allows you to copy and display as long as you give me credit and do not modify it in any form or use it commercially. I have printed some of these in larger formats and they do come out quite nicely, if anyone would like prints I will be glad to oblige.
I first noticed this via Roland Tanglao but I think he has a misshap with the link, some googling soon found the right url, it is a quick annotated checklist on how to run a secure windows machine at home, useful to give to some people who run ADSL connections on their windows machines and such.
This weekend I flew Cape Town Johannesburg and back on SAA. I was very impressed.
Everything went right, I did my booking using voyager miles that I accumulated over the years and paid a grand total of R175 for my return ticket. I cannot remember a single detail about the flight that was wrong, the air planes were nice and big inside, lots of leg room and overhead storage room. The staff was super friendly and helpful – even greeting in no less than 5 languages, the food we were served on both flights were very nice and the flights ran perfectly on time.
I misread my return ticket to Cape Town and so missed the flight, without a single hassle at all they booked me on a later flight, even waiving the R75 ticket change fee.
Excellent and a huge improvement from the last time I flew them, its good to know you actually get something for your extra money you would pay.
Today I noticed my Windows Updated is telling me to update my Bookshelf Symbol 7 font and that it is marked critical. Immediately interested to know what is so critical about a font I read the knowledge base article which says:
A critical update is available to remove unacceptable symbols from the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font that is included with Microsoft Office 2003. The Bookshelf Symbol 7 font is contained in the Bssym7.ttf file.
After some googling I came across the following statement from Microsoft:
Microsoft has learned of a mistake in the Bookshelf Symbol 7 font included in the Microsoft Office System client applications. Due to an unintentional oversight, we failed to identify, prior to the release, the presence of two swastikas within the font. We apologize for this and for any offense caused. Microsoft is taking immediate measures to remedy the issue for all customers.
Some further reading up about it got me across the following blog posting where someone points at legit use of swastika’s, I think the world should just get over it and move on, this kind of censoring is insane.
