I have gremlins all over the place here.

My router stops working as soon as I plug it into the modem. And plugging it into the modem is sort of the whole point of the router. No respond to ping, no nothing. It’s just dead, until I unplug the WAN port and the ping results all [...]

I’ve had an Internet connection again for two weeks, when it breaks down. Apparently, B2 are “upgrading” their switches, resulting in complete breakdown. My modem says it has a link, but nothing happens on the connection. I’ll call their support again when I get home and yell some more at them. Third call in a [...]

Pronoun arithmetic d’oeuvre! Belying sapling helmsmen dulcet! Cooperate pitt courage!

Those are all genuine spam subjects that arrived at my Yahoo account (which I keep mainly as a dump address for stupid sites that require registration).

You know, that’s a really interesting technique the spammers use to bypass statistical spam filters. Especially since all those rarely used [...]

Is John Kerry’s campaign so desperate that they really need to resort to referral spamming thousands of blogs?

I don’t care if you’re a potential president of the world’s most powerful nation; into my shitlist you go.

It’s very likely to be a Joe job from political opponents, though.

Quite frankly, I have no idea what the movie Casshern is about, but I was sold the moment I saw a Japanese guy cleaving big robots with his bare hands. Does it get better than that?

The entire movie appears to be screaming “Final Fantasy,” so I’ll keep an eye out for this one. Have a [...]

Now this is great news! Paranoia will be reprinted in a new edition this August. For reasons best left unexplored, the new edition will be called Paranoia XP…

Paranoia debuted at a time when the Soviet Union was shooting down jet liners and invading Afghanistan, and when many workers feared they would lose their jobs as [...]

Sorry, I’m too busy playing the UT2004 demo to write anything. Here’s a picture of my cat, April, for filler.

No, she doesn’t wear makeup. Her eyes look like that. Pretty, isn’t she?

“Don’t look at the idoru’s face. She is not flesh, she is information.”
— William Gibson, Idoru

Eleven hits from the same IP within two seconds, said referrer using wget as user agent, does indeed a referral spammer make. tahoe-group.com, your marketing department are assholes and drag your name in the dirt.

When I get spammed, I take it personal. My shitlist continues to grow.

Finally, something that makes sense among the infected patent disputes in USA.

According to Ravicher, roughly half of all patents in the United States are illegitimate, meaning they should have never been granted. Illegitimate patents restrict the availability of critical medications to the public and deprive small businesses in information technology industries of fair opportunities to [...]