I just heard the news that James Doohan has passed away yesterday at the age of 85. Doohan became famous for acting the role of “Mr. Scott”, the engineer of the USS Enterprise starship in the TV series “Star Trek”. Doohan – or better – Scotty – was one of the heroes of my childhood. … [Read more…]
I saved Middle Earth! It took me almost 6 weeks, but I don’t complain since this is significantly shorter compared to the journey of the Fellowship. Computer games have come a long way since my first game “Gruds in Space“. I’m not a big game person. I play the occasional game, but I rarely get … [Read more…]
I’m please to see that Nuclear Moose is online again. After he ranted about WordPress, his blog fell silent – resp. his site was completely unaccessible! A week ago he started blogging again. No reason given for the downtime. Welcome back, Moose!
Coming from work I stopped by a do-it-yourself-store. When I stood in line in front of the checkout, I witnessed the following conversation: She: I ordered terry cloth rompers on eBay. He: That’s what mothers do – ordering such things on eBay Anything remarkable in that conversation? Did you get it too? They did not … [Read more…]
Kristian brought a nice “how-to” back to my mind, which deserves it to be made a little better known: Attention all Evil Overlord List Aspirants: Contrary to popular belief, taking over the universe is not as easy as it would first appear. Due to the complexity of this task, Peter regrets that he is currently … [Read more…]
I “sold” a project to management on Monday, and in its wake I had to order a whole bunch of software to get it completed. Guess the manufacturers “created with the demoversion of XYZ” watermarks were quite convincing 🙂 It’s the first major expenditure I made for some time and – working for a software … [Read more…]
100% (read: 3 of 3) of all the participants in my poll regarding the Amazon logo have not realized the message behind the arrow pointing from A to Z. Now Tom points out another (potentially) subliminal message in a Logo to me. This time it’s FedEx: Tom claims that there is an arrow hidden in … [Read more…]
I’m surprised, baffled and ashamed all in one strange mix of emotions. I really can’t grasp what has happened this week, and I can’t understand how most of it happened completely unnoticed by me!
Just found this little diversion: Stargate Quiz. Seems I’m pretty well too: You are Very Stargate Smart. You know every little detail about the show. You’ve probably seen every episode more than once, and I’ll bet you’ve even got them all on tape or DVD! Neither is true, though 🙂
Tom Raftery writes about the default “out of office” message handling of Exchange and explains why it can be a security risk: It is entirely possible to spam a company (or more likely companies), do automated searches for Out of Office Replies, cross reference them with phone book entries, and then burglarise houses secure in … [Read more…]