Had a 419 spam this morning that slipped through the filters (now fed to SpamAssassin) that started with the following – do they know something that I don’t ? 🙂
Dear Fiend,
Sadly it’s probably just an attempt to evade the “Dear Friend” test..
0.8 DEAR_FRIEND BODY: Dear Friend? That’s not very dear!
I’ve got a friend, to protect his identity we’ll just call him “Mike“, who’s currently touring China and Mongolia for a month. Well it looks like even he couldn’t resist the call of the Internet, so I got this last night and it’s posted with his permission:
Hi from a dodgey internet cafe in Ulaanbaatar.
A land of slow internet connections and suspicious meat dishes. The landscape is rather amazing, – loads of open grasslands and blue sky, somewhat reminiscent of the the windows default backdrop. Only add more horses, goats, yaks, eagles and gers.
Managed to get caught in a terrific storm yesterday, minutes after pitching a tent on a sand dune ridge. Apart from the tent nearly blowing away, the best part was being pinned on the ridge and then it starting to strike lightning.Nothing like sitting under a shell of aluminum poles with bolts flying overhead. My other career after scientist when I was a kid was going to be a orchestra conductor and it look like for an ironic moment that I might fullfil at least half of that. Luckily after an hour or so the storm passed to reveal one of the best sunsets ever.
More dodgey roads to condend with later this week where I hope to get to some other park and try my luck again with the tent.
Anyhow, painfully slow connections. Take care back there,
I’m starting to like the taste of mutton which seems to taint every meal that you order. See if the can make a special dish at the curry place.
It was the possum wot done the gaff, guv’nor, and no mistake..
From those silly people at DeadTroll.com – The Sysadmin Song!
This is interesting, the BBC is going to replace two episodes of missing Doctor Who video footage from the series The Invasion with animation by the award winning Cosgrove Hall company. They’ve got a 30 second teaser up at the moment.
Sounds great, but I’ve been conditioned into thinking of Cosgrove Hall doing Dangermouse and so I can’t help but think that perhaps they might introduce a new character..
Penfold: Oh crumbs Doctor, there’s them nasty Cyberwotsits again! Help! Ahhhhhhh!
🙂
Via: Sandra
From the BBC:
Before you fear too much for the decorum of old Auntie Beeb, this is what it’s about:
Around 1,000 fans arrived for the Ivory Coast tie in their traditional bright orange trousers – but bearing the logo and name of a Dutch brewery.
To protect the rights of the official beer they were denied entry, so the male fans promptly removed the trousers and watched the game in underpants.
Talk about a strict dress code..
Must have musical accessory meets household sanitation. the iCarta..
The thing that gets the highest hit count on this website is not any of the blog entries, none of the photo galleries nor even the URLs that those damn accursed referrer spammers try to go to, but this photo:
Unfortunately I can’t find any attribution for it – the best I’ve got is that it was first mentioned in this story by Alec who pointed to this URL that went 404. I managed to track down a copy via some method that escapes me and added that as a comment to Alec’s article, which he then posted about here.
The EXIF information isn’t much use, it just says:
$ exif Cat.jpg
EXIF tags in 'Cat.jpg' ('Motorola' byte order):
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------
Tag |Value
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------
Orientation |top - left
x-Resolution |72/1
y-Resolution |72/1
Resolution Unit |Inch
Software |Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Date and Time |2004:05:19 12:49:44
Compression |JPEG compression
x-Resolution |72/1
y-Resolution |72/1
Resolution Unit |Inch
Color Space |Uncalibrated
PixelXDimension |434
PixelYDimension |377
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------
EXIF data contains a thumbnail (3764 bytes).
My guess is that as Photoshop is involved it’s a fake.. But I’d love to find out who did it so they can get proper credit!