 October 31st, 2003 |  OwenSince I hurt my pendulum my life is all erratic, - If anyone knows who wrote this I’d love to know. (It sounds like Spike Milligan, but I can’t find any references..) October 30th, 2003 | OwenA new short story from Terry Pratchett. Read it online at the LSpace web here. October 28th, 2003 | OwenThe mass media is pretty depressing, but this article articulates one of the things that is wrong very nicely. How Fleet Street uses the October 28th, 2003 | OwenWhy is the WhiteHouse so keen to stop internet search engines like google from finding old documents relating to Iraq? Probably because they contain references to Weapons of Mass Destruction that, as we now know, did not exist. October 23rd, 2003 | OwenFrom the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, lives inside his house, which is outside the asylum. I think he had it right. October 23rd, 2003 | OwenThey use every sleezy tactic in the book to con people into installing their spyware, hiding it in products that look legitimate. But what it does is spy on your web surfing, and bombard you with unwanted adverts. They have a PR problem caused by their lack of ethics and crooked business model, so they then intimidate people who expose them by giving their spy software it’s true name. October 20th, 2003 | Owen“…Could someone please explain how cricket is structured, as an American I understand very few foreign sports…” Yes, as an Englishman I think I can provide a few pointers on the structure of cricket. Its rules are as follows; Conquer 1/3rds of the World and humiliate the inhabitants. Teach them your cherished sport with the intention of exhibiting your cultivation prowess and superiority. Spend the fading years of your power being trashed by barbarian hordes of antipodeans and South Africans. Fade into political and sporting oblivion… October 16th, 2003 | OwenA well-worn phrase, but quite appropriate when it comes to the Music industry at present. - The copyright notice on that article made me smile too: “All material on azoz.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties, but it all seems rather pointless. You may reprint any article on this site in whole, in part, in effigy or in ridicule. I really don’t care.” - Genius! October 10th, 2003 | OwenThis company created a ‘CD anti-piracy’ technique that relies on windows ‘autorun’ feature to install a piece of malware when you put the CD in the PC’s CD drive. This can be by-passed by simply holding the ‘Shift’ key of your PC when you put the CD in the drive (this temporarily disables autorun), or just disable autorun completely (like I do). So, Some academics looked at this marvellous innovation in anti-piracy software, and realised that it was hopeless and can be by-passed by anybody with half a brain-cell. They published their results, and now Sunncomm is threatening to sue them for millions of dollars. Is corporate america sad or what? October 9th, 2003 | OwenAmsterdam’s MuseumNacht is on November the 8th this year. A very good night indeed. October 9th, 2003 | OwenScientologists or the Catholic Church? Actually they’re both dangerous and wrong. |
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