Funny, Sad, Ironic, ... 2008-09-13T17:41:18+02:00 cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog http://fortytwo.ch/blog/ NanoBlogger Meme time cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/09/#e2008-09-13T17_41_13.txt 2008-09-13T17:41:13+02:00 2008-09-13T17:41:13+02:00
I see Martin is proud to have started this...

altfrangg, calvados, faegnaescht, gazpacho, gin, gluggsi, lumpesammler, papillon, syydelaervli, tonic, zbasel

If you can guess this, you're invited to gatecrash anytime. If you can guess this and don't live close to me (or did at some time in the past, and didn't use Google), I'd be curious to know how...

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Most irritating cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/08/#e2008-08-27T14_52_17.txt 2008-08-27T14:52:17+02:00 2008-08-27T14:52:17+02:00
It is most irritating when the Laptop choses to blank its display at the exact moment when I unplug the mobile phone charger located behind it.

That is all.

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419 cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/08/#e2008-08-04T09_04_53.txt 2008-08-04T09:04:53+02:00 2008-08-04T09:04:53+02:00
Got this gem today:

This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Central bank of Nigeria to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $10 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as oneof the scammed victims, get back to as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $10Million compensations funds.

Quite clever — the kind of stupidity that lets you believe this kind of email the first time will also get you a second time with this one...

(Oh, yes: if you really want, you can contact mrjohnwilliamy2k1@live.com yourself.)

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On Flamewars cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/06/#e2008-06-19T09_30_37.txt 2008-06-19T09:30:37+02:00 2008-06-19T09:30:37+02:00
It has been mentioned very often, but xkcd captures this idea perfectly: face to face meetings help. (This is no comment on any conversation that might be going on right now, it's just the most recent cartoon.)

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Irony ... cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/06/#e2008-06-05T21_30_05.txt 2008-06-05T21:30:05+02:00 2008-06-05T21:30:05+02:00
Errors were encountered while processing: debian-policy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(I haven't looked closer yet, but I had to laugh.)

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Irony ... cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/05/#e2008-05-21T08_21_33.txt 2008-05-21T08:21:33+02:00 2008-05-21T08:21:33+02:00
Errors were encountered while processing: debian-policy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(I haven't looked closer yet, but I had to laugh.)

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Rants... cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/03/#e2008-03-31T09_11_00.txt 2008-03-31T09:11:00+02:00 2008-03-31T09:11:00+02:00
Apparently it's the time for me to strengthen my dislike of some technologies by reading rants from other people with similar opinions...

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Educated Artists cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/03/#e2008-03-21T23_07_27.txt 2008-03-21T23:07:27+02:00 2008-03-21T23:07:27+02:00
Many artists use the problems of current society for inspiration. I am therefore optimistic in the sense that if artists are seeing freedom as a serious problem in the post 9/11 world, others outside of tech-oriented circles will finally notice as well. Bruce Schneier pointed out TSA Gangstaz a few weeks ago and now Frontalot's Secrets From The Future (the latter is even offered as an Ogg file, and the lyrics shows surprisingly deep technical understanding, so these guys seem to really care about this issue.)

Anybody working on art related to patent or copyright law? (Not a rethorical question, this blog does have a comments feature!)

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Bomb Squad Defuses Turnip cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/03/#e2008-03-19T08_07_01.txt 2008-03-19T08:07:01+02:00 2008-03-19T08:07:01+02:00
Hats off to Bruce Schneier for this funny title. Some of the comments are quite funny as well.

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Attack of the Lesbian Communists cmot http://fortytwo.ch/blog/archives/2008/03/#e2008-03-16T15_20_43.txt 2008-03-16T15:20:43+02:00 2008-03-16T15:20:43+02:00
Somebody called Pigeon has posted a truly outstanding contribution to the debate on what kind of content is adequate for packaging as a Debian package to the debian-curiosa mailing list (this time the debate apparently is if Dopewars is ok, in other instances, the debate was about other games or the text of the Bible.)

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