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.

Iceland gets tough..

By arresting 12 people they dropped Icelands total internet traffic by 40% :-) They were file traders of course.. C’mon guys, be discreet!

Brauch’s Observation:

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
etc..

FUD – a common spin-doctors tool

“The chief component of FUD is Fear… Fear and Doubt. Doubt and Fear. The TWO components of FUD are Fear and Doubt… And Uncertainty. The THREE components of FUD are Fear Uncertainty and Doubt… and an almost fanatical devotion to litigation.”
Made me laugh

It keeps getting worse.

Now Microsoft have managed to achieve a ‘zero-day‘ exploit for web browser users where all you have to do is look at a jpeg image. What a bunch of Useless..etc..

A talking Virus, whatever next..

The Amus email worm uses Windows Speech Engine (built-in to Windows XP) to deliver a spoken message to infected users. Slightly amusing I guess.

Erotic Origami?

I guess this is paper folding at it´s most imaginative.. The master of this has done a interview.

Getting High with Spider Venom!

Err.. I think I´ll pass on this, I don’t like spiders..

Muppet Labs

Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his trusty assistant, Beaker, have come top of a poll to find the UK’s favourite TV boffins. Most amusing:

“…and through the magic of the Enlarge-o-matic, Beaker can more easily study this common household germ.”
“WRAAAAR!”
“MEEEEEEEP!”
“…and vise-versa!”

Quality Stuff..