Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.

New form of spam pop-up message

They’ve found out how to use windows messaging to do it, damn.

Spam Rulez

The Rules of Spam are here.

Jet powered boats, running on steam.

If this is as good as it sounds, it might have a major impact in the maritime world.

Power Point

This made me grin since it describes something I’ve done many times, and something I’ve thought many times at the same time.

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I remember the days when any computer manual worth it’s weight had a lot of empty pages that simply said ‘This page intentionally left blank’. Well, now you can recreate the experience on your computer. I’ll have to set a page like this up here too, it’s geeky but cool.

Mineral Water

A good Guardian article explaining why the Recording Industry could learn a lesson from the fact we spend millions on buying something we can get from the tap almost free.

Isn’t Patent law a wonderful tool for the unscrupulous?

This bunch of jokers claim they own the use of frame technology, which is used my most decent websites (including this one) to improve navigation around the site. Fortunately they’re out of luck, prior art will stuff them.

Speaking of Satire

Whitehouse.org is up to it’s old tricks again.

Is your Son a Computer Hacker?

Essential advice for parents. [In case you're wondering, this is satire!]

I went skiing

Ski Pictures are up! See the Gallery.

Boom!

My PC blew up on Friday (motherboard..) but never fear, I have a new system up and going already (with a blue neon fan!). Ski pictures are html-ized and will be up as soon as I get a moment to FTP them to the server.

Bugger..

The gearbox on my car lost all it’s oil on the last part of my drive back from Avoriaz. So if you’ve come here looking for Ski trip photo’s you’ll have to wait.. I’ve got some bigger worries at present.