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A gang of midgets wraps you in plastic wrap and proceeds to cook you with a hair dryer. You are slowly squeezed to death as the plastic wrap shrinks around your body.
So, according to The Death Psychic’s prediction someone with my name, age and gender would be better of with a phobia for gangs of short-statured hairdressers (midgetbarberodemophobia?)
I really wonder how many of those things people are going to come up with. At least it’s not as bad as the love calculator, that damned thing has really been around. I guess it was one thing online, but then it showed up as a phone service and people actually payed to get a computer send them the results. And now they have it on MTV here during the nights. I should really try to invent some stupid thing people could pay me money for.
October 16, 2005 at 8:30 pm · Filed under Internet, Random ramblings & reflections
Want to know how the world and life as we know it will end? Exit Mundi presents us with a growing collection of possible end-of-world scenarios. All of them onomatopoeically presented on the main menu and described in a way that probably will make anyone with an appropriatly black sense of humor giggle. Shhllp! Blub… blub! Oops!
October 8, 2005 at 4:29 pm · Filed under General, Internet
I thought I’d mention an e-mail function whose purpose seems to not be wellknown enough: The image blocker. I use Mozilla Thunderbird for regular mail, and I also have an account at gmail as well as an old Hotmail, and they all have image blockers.
The purpose of this is not to save bandwidth, but to protect your privacy. Viewing images in junkmail can mean that you verify that your mail is in use, and a verified adress is much more valuable to junkmailers.
How do they do it, then? Within the URI linking to the image there is a unique value representing your e-mail adress. This means that when your mail client/browser downloads the image, the server will use that value to keep track of which adresses are active.
So, keep the image blocker active, and never view images in unsolicited mail, no matter how much you want to see how much bigger your dic.ky can be or how hot those housewives actually are. Oh, and don’t click links either, they can also contain tracking data. If you really want to see what something’s about, paste the link into your browser and remove everything after the top-level domain (change http://www.getdopeatonlinepharmacy.com/somedirectory/redirect.php?id=998909xyz to http://www.getdopeatonlinepharmacy.com.)
The reason I felt this was worth writing about was that when I logged on to check my bank statement there was a message informing me that the bank would never send mails asking for personal information, in regard to the phishing attempt I mentioned in my last post, and some links to resources on online security and privacy. And none of those resources mentioned the usefulness of the image blocking feature.
October 6, 2005 at 11:19 am · Filed under Internet
It’s getting close to five in the morning and I’m having a little bout with insomnia, and that usually means that I’m planted in front of the screen. But there are worse things you can do than spending the night at the pc with a nice cup of coffee.
Since I can’t come up with any real content right now, I thought I’d write a bit about the site and its creation. Maybe someone finds it interesting. Overall, I enjoyed setting the site up. Firstly, I think WordPress seems like a great piece of software. It has all the functionality I can Imagine, and then some, and is really nice to manage. I havn’t had to consult the documentation much, but there seems to be a well-organized wealth of it.
The current theme is a quite modified version of Connections from www.vanillamist.com. Not that I liked it in its original form (going to add that when I get around to adding a theme choser), but I liked the layout so it was a good starting point for me. I’m not that literate when it comes to stuff like XHTML and CSS, so I focused on images and some stylesheet tweaking.
CSS is something I got determined to learn more about after working on this design, though. Last time I made a more advanced web layout the common method was to use tables, invisible gifs to make the tables behave, and occult rituals to ensure compatibility with more than one browser. That was a while ago, and good things have happened since.
Tags: links, Site info, wordpress
September 26, 2005 at 3:22 am · Filed under Internet, Site info
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