tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36314652011-04-21T20:48:20.558+02:00The world - online, mobile & offline. Based in Vienna, Austria. English, but German too. Enjoy ! The posts here are mine, and mine only, and do not reflect the opinion, ideas and projects of my employer. ad++http://www.blogger.com/profile/01490367723859657561noreply@blogger.comBlogger3641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3631465.post-1076159732636548832004-02-07T14:15:00.000+01:002004-02-07T14:17:54.403+01:00

This weblog has moved to Typepad and it has now it´s own domain at www.adplusplus.net! Go there!

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Watch the MWSF Steve Jobs Keynote in Quicktime Streaming today (9am PT, 6pm CET): "Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs deliver the Macworld Expo keynote address from Moscone Center in San Francisco. See the live webcast right here on January 6 at 9am PT exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4. It's an event you won't want to miss." Apple - QuickTime - Macworld San Francisco 2004 Keynote.

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The number of posting on this weblog is going down. I started to post the recent stuff on the ad++ Typepad Weblog. Go there NOW! Well, should I decide to move, then it´s all there ready. Should I decide to stay here, then I will post all the recent stuff here. But since posting (pictures) on Typepad is obviously much easier and more powerful, I doubt that will happen. I also thought about doing

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Alexa lists the top web site and traffic rank, reach and page views among the Alexa Network for various site such as google.com (#4), Amazon.com (#16), Microsoft.com (#8), but strangely doesn´t have any data for Alexa itself. Check also your favorite local sites like T-Mobile Germany, T-Online Germany or Der Spiegel. Also the Global Top 500 are given: Yahoo.com (#1) > MSN.com (#2) > Daum.net (

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The Bubblegum proxypot is a fake open proxy that will long sessions and help to find spammers, BUT it may bring you into trouble and your ISP against you since - technically - it´s still an open proxy. An open proxy is a server that forwards Internet connections from anywhere to anywhere, no questions asked. Usually an open proxy is installed by spammers or crackers on innocent users unsecure

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Mr. Kipling´s Virgin Birth is a hilarious ad from Saatchi & Saatchi London. In this ad, a fictitious Mr. Kipling is forgiven mistaken because his cakes are so delicious. Found at Adage.com: A woman playing Mary in a school nativity play goes into genuine, agonizing labor and gives birth on stage. A shocked parent asks the vicar: "Has Mr. Kipling ever directed a Nativity play before?" The vicar

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A few posts from yesterday are missing here. You can find those at the Ad++ WebLog on Typepad: - Mr Magoo - Burning down the house - live action I´m blogging now on two weblogs to compare them or rather evaluate moving the weblog. I´m too lazy to post the recent posts (since blogger was down for a few moments so I couldn´t do it right away). Anyway, Typepad has some neat features that are not

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Les has a list of what not to do during "Return of the King" - such as: 8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.

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Happy New Year to everyone!! Guten Rutsch, as we say in German.

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This is music I love. Just listening to it. Music right for the end of the year. Freddie Mercury´s last CD - I like especially the really long title "Heaven" (Amazon Germany, Amazon.com).  Speaking of music, I got two CDs this Christmas: Verve//Remixed Vol. 2 featuring great remixes of music by Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone and others. I like the last one - "Sinnerman" and "Whatever lola wants

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This is the bear and the bear is in this picture. It seems to be good, but I´ve cut the guy´s arm. And here a part of the church is missing. I was too fast.

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A directory for bookmarklets for your browser: Bookmarklets Home Page - free tools for power surfing

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A PDF paper on incriminating P2P network users - I´m not sure if this is the original version I read a couple days ago.

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A week or so before christmas the terrorists alert level in the US was raised by the Homeland Security department, and now we know why: :-) The FBI urges police to watch for people carrying almanacs: when combined with suspicious behavior -- such as apparent surveillance -- a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning."

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December is the time for donations. A couple of open projects faced sever hardware problems and asked their communities for help: Wikipedia asked for $20.000 dollars and received - up to Dec. 30, morning - $29.566. The german SELFHTML project team asked for donations of EUR 5.000 to fund new servers and got - up to 23rd Dec - EUR 20.885. I guess it´s probably much more (since I donated too :-)).

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As a NE Asia online article reports, video from digital cameras is set to Reach 1.3M-Pixels/Frame by 2006, where are at the present it offers 310.000 pixels per frame or VGA Format at 30 frames per second (on high-end cameras). It seems that the imagers used in digital cameras offering 3 to 5 million pixels are offering too much pixel for video, because if all the pixel data would be read, it

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Ladies and gentlemen. According a new article from CNET News.com, there are 3 different business modells for online music: - the a la carte approach (like iTunes) - the subscription model (like Napster) - the streaming model (like RealNetworks´Rhapsody) And the winner is ... yet open, since every variation can find it´s followers. Some experts argue that eventually people will turn to streaming

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Multimedia - Seed for Growth is a Powerpoint presentation (PDF, 9 MB) by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Multimedia, Nokia on the Nokia Capital Market Days last November. It shows detailed information on the 4 focus areas in consumer multimedia: - Imaging (camera phone, sharing photos with friends, mobile blogging etc.) - Games (like the N-Gage console and online

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Friday 26th, nothing really good on TV, what should I say more: time to watch some trailer for not-yet-released movies: - Man on Fire, a new movie starring Denzel Washington, premiering in the US on 23rd April 2004. (IMDB) - Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhard and Uma Thurman, a new movie by John Woo. Some lost memory stuff, tagline "remember the future". (IMDB) - The Dreamers, a new

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Good, but somehow Matrix-inspired, introduction into using CSS Based Webdesign by Jeremy Keith. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something.

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A few links I found while reading old RSS feeds: - the work of war photographer James Nachtwey including his Iraq coverage - how to use the London tubemap as a flow chart - alternative terror alert warning [the term "Homeland Security" sounds really very strange to me, really!]

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Another game if you have some time to kill over X-mas: fan_and_ball (Thanks Christian). Psychopong will drive you mad - the first level seems normal, but then ..

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The book Lolita by Vladimir Navokov on Amazon allows for some really stupid jokes (see image). Well, and on related news, Google is installing cams into toilets (according to SF Business times) [while I´m typing this in a second time because I pressed the wrong button - Preview - before Saving this post. Remember always save first, folks!] The noted Internet search engine has recently

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Bill Palmers writes an comparison of iTunes vs. the Walmart music store and guess who wins. Well, for us international users - we loose early. First the Walmart website is integrated with the other Walmart offerings, but the link international customers states that the site shops only within the US. No problem, ´cause downloaded music isn´t shipped, it´s downloaded. However, when tryint to

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This isn´t really an iPod commercial, rather a parody: "My name is Will Farrell, and I´m a porn actor." Switch!

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A useful programm for the web programmers: phpGrabComics from Dilbert or others, but don´t think about copyright (it´s illegal).

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This site warns parents to buy CDs for their kids - What a Crappy Present - as they propably downloaded the music from the internet already anyway. "Remember, when you buy major label CDs, you´re paying companies to sue families and marginalize independent music." Record companies won´t be happy about this statement. :-) Downhill Battle is a site against the RIAA - Recording Industry

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"For years, I´ve lived a double live. In the day, I do my job. But at night I live a live of exhileration. I won´t denied I´ve been engaged in violence. I´ve commandered armies and conquered worlds." Analogik.com reviews the SONY PlayStation 2 commercial Double Life and compares it to the PS2 mountain commercial. The review centers on the use of escapism in the commercial advertising. The trend

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Some more information on Samorost including solution should be sound it this great Australian site.

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Can anyone explain me how to play Samorost? I mean, what to do on the second screen ?? Update (00:34): I solved it. Was easy in some way. :-)

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World-Information - Special IP edition is a magazine about the world summit on the information society, 10-12 december 2003, in Geneva. It features articles such as: - Why do intellectual property issues matter? - Preserving the commons in the new information order - The injustice of IP - Biopiracy - The free software movement - The companies and organization behind the DNS system - Why you

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dummy - an interesting new magazine (in German). "Eine Zeitschrift, die mehr Spaß macht als "Geo", moderner ist als der "Stern", relevanter als ein Lifestyleblatt, großzügiger als eine Illustrierte, optischer als "Brand Eins"." FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE

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Pornography isn´t official permitted in Cuba, however, due to the high attrativeness of the dollar due to it´s purchase power against the local peso (everything vs nothing or next to nothing) porn is unfortunately returning back to the island. However, it´s strang the searches for cuba porn (on Google), sex in cuba (on Yahoo) or porn in cuba (on Earthlink) end up on my weblog because I´ve

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Apple just released version 6.5 of QuickTime plus version 4.2 of iTunes: "Version 4.2 includes the ability to sign in and buy music from the iTunes Music Store using either an AOL or Apple Account, view the iTunes Music Store in a separate window, and offers a number of performance improvements." "QuickTime 6.5 delivers extensive support for the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards, including Advanced

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The Guardian (found at fscklog) reports on the sexiness of the iPod - "the coolest thing to come out of California since the Beach Boys". However, Professor Gideon Garter in the Sunday Times´s Intellectual Guide to Fashion column that 10.000 songs could be stored on the iPod - providing great quotes for your signatures lines: "Are there 10,000 songs? Why would one want to carry so many? I am

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German nettraffic statistics and DE-CIX statistics (85 percent of the german internet traffic is passing this point). The same stuff for the Austrian VIX is here and there´s a global list. Note the differences: VIX doesn´t top 4 Gbits per second, DE-CIX reaches 14 G, and LINX (London) goes slightly above 30 G.

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The NY Times reports on the use of trojan software to take over target computers, open backdoors, send spam, present online ads for pornographic websites and more. According to Jesse Dougherty, a director of development at Sophos, an anti-virus company, a third of all spam is sent or relayed by personal home computers that have been taken over. Note the "relayed".

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Actually this probably won´t persuade the smokers in our office to stop: Jesus Hates it when you smoke.

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JOE McNALLY did some great aviation photography - you´ve got to see this - for National Geographic. Shooting everything digitally with a Nikon D1X (pictures in RAW format at 8 MB per picture, or 125 on a 1 GB compact flash card.

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Some great traffic trails pictures from Japan.

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So sieht das Ende der Schlange bei der Eröffnung zum neuen Apple Store in Ginza, Tokyo, aus - mehr dazu hier. Wie man sieht, streng durchorganisiert die Japaner! Trotzdem war die durchschnittliche Wartezeit 3,5 Stunden. Cool! Ooops. I switched into German and didn´t even notice. Probably you realized anyway what the post is about.

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Jonathon Delacour writes about the effect of information overload when blogging: [...] Having a weblog turns information overload into a two-way process: first you suck all this stuff into your head for processing; and then you regurgitate it as weblog posts. And, while this process isn’t all that different from the ways in which we manipulate information in our jobs, it’s something that we’ve

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Über die beknackte Bea, deren Anbiederung in einer Textarea untergebracht ist, und die ohnehin nur mit Flash funktioniert, sag ich mal gar nichts. Sannie writes a detailed analysis about the new 15 million euros website of the german Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

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eMail use to be so easy. Well actually email would be easy, but companies sending about emails to customers have to make sure email both meets some user interface guidelines and isn´t also mistaken for spam. Jakob Nielsen writes about how an email should work in the context of a crowded in-box and that email creation should be viewed also as an interface design activity. Also the from field is

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How to use Google when looking for a job or working in a HR department: What's Your Google Number

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QuickTime and Flash. This site rocks right for Christmas: iPod for the holidays

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Vodafone is starting it´s 3G push by offering high-speed data services to business customers, not for making phone calls for customers according to an Reuters story: "'It's realistic to expect that we will bring handsets into the friendly user trials at some point, but we're now starting with PC cards and data calls only,' said a Vodafone spokeswoman. " Once again the blame is on handsets -

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Photo taken on Cayo Levisa, Cuba, 24. November (really!) 2003Ah, if you expected politics, you were wrong. :-)

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From the "What I missed while being on holiday" series: the 46664 concert from South Africa - another reason to have a broadband connection.

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On the trip to Cuba, we´ve got a list of cuba music (compiled by Mathias Salomon). I´ve check the titles on Amazon.de: La Cubanera - The best of Cuban Music. Quote: "Gute Zusammenstellung von traditionellen und zeitgenössischen Titeln". Classics of the Americas: several volumes available, classic piano music from Manual Saumell and Ignacio Cervantes and others. The Mambo Kings - soundtrack to the

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Hooray, the trip is over! It was great! More on the tour to and in Cuba soon and regular blogging will resume too. I just have to scan/read about 190 private emails, while listening to good cuban music (I bought the CDs of Polo Montanez and David Calzado) and doing research about some films about Cuba (such as Fresa y chocolate (buy it here or read more here. Also I´ve to get some sleeps to get

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Hooray, hooray, it´s a holiday! I´m going on holiday to cuba, so blogging will stop for a while. Regular postings will resume sometime after December the 2nd, as there probably will be a lot to read on email and the RSS feeds. Till then have a pleasant and hopefully not too cold November.

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And finally there´s another - the third - iPod TV spot. Caution: very load!

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Convince your parents and get an iPod - the site iPodrocks offers any help needed.

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The new TOP500 List 11/2003 is out, and the Virginia Tech Apple G5 based cluster hit rank #3. The japanese Earth Simulator is still on rank #1 with over 3 times the power.

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In case, you haven´t noticed yet.

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I bought a digital camera - the PowerShot S400, better know as the Canon IXUS 400.

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For cold november evenings / nights enjoy a real spooky website: My Pet Skeleton, designers of the website of the band JonnyHollow. Warning: gothic style.

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Ok, we might increase this site´s page impressions and visits by adding some hot porn. Then, maybe not. Anyway, try the hot Paris Hilton sex tape. Ah, that should do it. :-)

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News that no one needs: Strangely enough certainly lot of online journalists deal with stories about sex life, strange crime, bad taste and this: President condemns police for spending tax money on sweets

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A recent study in Austria noted that many people in the cities are switching from landlines to mobile phones. According to a recent survey in the US about 50 percent of American residential consumers would consider that too if they were allowed to keep their existing (landline) phone number. Based on a new FCC rule, this would be an even better offer that the number portability - only between

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Wasted comments dump is a weblog of not-posted weblog comment entries on antville.org - mostly in German (but not only): Wasted Comments Dump

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His music is great, but I really hooked now on the new remixes, especially this.

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etc.english is a free guide to tokyo museums and galleries. Metropolis is an English language city guide. Superfuture is a guide to cool shopping places. Tokyo undergroup map - bigger then from any european city. Japan-Guide´s section on Tokyo. Ressources for planning a tour online. Guide books: Frommer´s, Fodors, LonelyPlanet, Rough Guides; Amazon.com guides.

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Knallgrau aka Twoday.net has a whitepager on next generation publishing through weblogs.

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Google introduced a deskbar for searching Google "without opening your browser" - why ?

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Military reality TV: "For two days this week, Israel's communications satellite accidentally beamed a live feed from the control room of a highly classified test missile firing, meaning that they could be viewed by anyone in the Middle East with the simplest satellite dish."

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This looks like a chinese movies web site, with a lot movies we never heard of and never will - there´s something like an login but I have no idea how. Found on the Alexa movers and shakers site.

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Great birds.

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What other people did at my Age (36): Barthelemy Thimmonier developed the world's first practical sewing machine. Walter Hunt devised a modern sewing machine. Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove. Robert Jarvik invented a pneumatically powered heart . German chemist Friedrich August Kekule discovered the ring structure of the benzene molecule in a dream. English navigator George

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And here are some great russian desktops.

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Pixelgirl has some real great desktop images

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From Japan to the North Pole. Actually I wanted to find out the flight route for a flight from Europe to Japan, say from Vienna to Tokyo. But the airlines only show, if at all, this generic world maps; but not the exact flight route. Since the world isn´t flat, it might be possible to fly over the artic or so instead of around asia. But I didn´t find it. Apparently though there are no flights

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Madness at Kaliber10000

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Christian is right: it would be cool to meet Judith Holofernes :-)

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Yes, this is the 3rd email from today´s special on security on this very weblog from your beloved weblog master. A new email virus called "Mimail.C" installs a SMTP server on your computer, spoofs email addresses, send out gazillions of emails, and according to the Wired News RSS feed threatens to turn your PC into a frog. However, Symantec doesn´t mention this. Ok, it (the virus email) mentions

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Spammer are starting to spam weblog´s comment sections. For example, as Wired reports, Flash programmer Michael Gunn's blog received 150 messages from "preteen" and "lolita." And: By embedding URLs in hundreds of blog comments, spammers apparently think they can trick search engines into believing that the blog community is abuzz with news of the latest cheap Viagra website. :-)

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Not only George Bush has a weblog, but also more appealing politicians have one as well. :-). Check out the weblog from Marie Ringler (German!) from the Green party in Vienna. And it´s also an SMS/MMS blog.

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Cool laptop bags.

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Related to the previous article: how to show full headers in any email program.

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TidBITS reports on the abuse of proxy servers by spammers. Even if you may think that proxy servers are designed for routing HTTP traffic, not emails, public proxy servers can be used to send spam. Very often proxy servers are open to anyone, both on the local net and the internet, due to default settings. Among others, Once a spammer has access to an open proxy, he can do any or all of the

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In Korea 40,000 'cybercrimes' have been investigated by police there this year, over half have involved online games, many of them apparently also involving theft of virtual items. Jullian Dibbell questions whether these are real crimes or not - does virtual crime need real justice ? His weblogs catch-phrase/proposition is: On April 15, 2004, I will truthfully report to the IRS that my primary

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Digital artist Jason Salavan has produced composite portraits of Playboy magazine centerfolds throughout the last decades - you can imagine that this photos show barenaked ladies, but not more. Actually, it could be any kind of meat, or whatever.

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I´ve changed the eMail adresse appearing on the left to weblog_a& #100;plusplu& #115;@t-onli ne.at which is decimal entity (ISO unicode characters) of the regular email address, and should help to fend off spammers. Since it doesn´t contain a @ it shouldn´t be

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If your phone goes down the toilet on a train, don´t even think about rescueing it - or you´ll end it in a mess as this man.

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Seems that Google can´t find enough advertisers for my weblog, as the ad space at the top of the page is currently blank with the line "This blank space brought to you by Google". Nice :-)

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Seems like a order any online store would want: "Then Apple released the G5 on June 23. A week later I bought 1,100 duals online at the Apple Store". O´Reilly MacDevCenter on the Virginia Tech cluster installation of 1.100 G5 Mac for the biggest Mac based supercomputer ever: Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher. Cool! Update: it´s called Terascale Cluster, and here´s more about it. It´s

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Guide to Indian Restaurants in Vienna (found at Horst´s blog).

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Good presentation on why (and how) to use CSS instead of tables for web page layout.

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Look out! Pornography! Duck!: President Bush has declared the week of October 26th to November 1st, 2003, to be Protection From Pornography Week. After the war on terror now there´s the war on porn. :-)

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Godany shares my opinion on Halloween - to hell with it. We don´t need it. Well, even 3 girls knocked to my door today. No, not for what you think, they only asked for sweets. Sorry, no sweets. But them! I´ve even seen a girl in a store dressed up in a Halloween costume. Funny, in a way; but I like the traditional halloween with foggy weather on a cemetery and so on better.

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In Japan mobile broad will be offered as it should be: flat rate. KDDI to start flat rate priced at 38 US$ per month with data transfers up to 2.4 megabits/second.

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Let´s switch to German: Nur wer Aufgaben der Reihe nach abarbeiten kann, statt im Interrupt-Betrieb seine Zeit zu verlieren, wird auch Qualität liefern. Found at an analysis of the meaning of "Never touch a running system" PDF in German

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Even this blogs own title can be found in the new search-in-the-books search tool at Amazon: ad++ is found in the complete reference to IBM WebSphere Application Server and The Holy Spirit: Activating God´s Power in Your Life.

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The snow has suddenly entered the city. Even Calvin & Hobbes are celebrating winter :-)

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Overview of the new features in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther including news in disk management, printing and faxing, font management, networking (native VPN support and native IPv6 support (doesn´t it have to be disabled to work with our old internet world?)), the file vault (including secure empty trash), support for Microsoft´s Active Directory and more. And of couse Exposé. Should rent a Mac for a

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filmcritic.com on Kill Bill Volume 1: "Bill is gorgeous, but unwatchable. It’s absorbing, then vile. " And the New York Times reported: " ''Kill Bill: Vol. 1'' is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has shootings, stabbings, beatings, beheadings, disembowelings, amputations, mutilations, eye-gougings, slicings, choppings, bitings and a spanking. Also some

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Yahoo! Japan offers 26 Mbit DSL (3.838 Yen (35 US$) or or 4.828 Yen (44 US$) (not quite clear)). The page is in Japanese though, no translate button :-( It seems that regular ADSL service at NTT costs 2.670 Yen (24,50 US$) for a 1.5 Mbit line, 2.870 for 8 Mbit and 2.970 for 12 Mbit (discounted "myline" OCN ADSL service; per month). Google has this pages in it´s index and cache, but offer no "

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iPods around the world: on Times Square, the Normandie (the music is great too), in New Zealand (doesn´t the scenery look like LOTR?), Hong Kong (great view), Arizona (hot!), Sydney Harbour Bridge (yes, I´ve been there - but without an iPod) and elsewhere.

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Evan Williams, the creator of Blogger, is interviewed on CNet. "The general consensus is that blogs are having a positive effect, and that's why Google is investing."

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