Gary’s Posterous

Just saw this on the BBC...

A couple from the United States got a shock when they learned their family photo was being used, unauthorised, on an advertising poster in Prague.

Danielle and Jeff Smith used the photo as their Christmas card, and also posted it on an internet blog.

A friend travelling in the Czech capital alerted them when he spotted the Smiths smiling at him, life-size, from a poster in a supermarket.

   

Click here to download:

US_Family_Turned_into_Advertis.zip (37 KB)

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Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!

Here is the actual link on the Dell web site: Inspiron Mini 10v

Thanks to Linuxologist for this.

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Christ's call is ... to save the lost, not the stiff- necked; He came
not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and
furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which
to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays,
stereotyped prayers and artistic musical performances, but to capture
men from the devil's clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of
Hell. But this can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional,
unfettered Holy Ghost religion, where neither man nor traditions are
worshiped or preached, but only Christ and Him crucified.
 
C. T. Studd (1860-1931), quoted in C. T. Studd -- Cricketer and
Pioneer [1933], Norman P. Grubb, Read Books, 2008, p. 163
See the book at http://cqod.com/r/rs096

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This is original and takes the Free Pizza idea to a new level. Austin Windshields of Texas have a promotion where you can get a free, family size pizza with the purchase of a new windshield (windscreen for those in the UK). But watch the small print, the offer is not available for insurance installations.

Got to love it... Read more here and here.

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I just get a comment on one of my blogs... The post is about Benchmarking of FreeNAS 0.7 on a single SSD with AFP... The spam comment is "Hey, have you seen this news article? New details about Michael Jackson's Death Emerge. I was wondering if you were going to blog about this..."

I am so tempted to approve the comment so that I can write some witty reply about what on earth does the death of Jacko have to do with FreeNAS... But on the other hand...

This could be a moment for me to start ranting about comment spam on blogs... Here is a great quote (from a post about Top 10 Newbie Mistakes) about comment spam:

"To me, coming to my blog and dropping unasked for links into a comment is like breaking in my house to leave your business card on my kitchen table. Ok, that’s a little extreme, but not THAT extreme….lol

Or the 'one liners'… you know, the 'nice blog…visit my site here {url}'. That’s like walking in my house and saying, 'Hey, nice house. Wanna buy some kitchen knives?'

However, if I invite you in and we have a nice conversation, I will most likely be willing to tell others about you and what you do…. wouldn’t you?"

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I have just setup my posterous account to also autopost to Tumblr... If you are reading this post it means it works!!!!

PS. My Tumblr account is here.

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There is a new virus going around, called "work." If you receive any
sort of "work" at all, whether via email, Internet or simply handed to
you by a colleague ... DO NOT OPEN IT.
 
This has been circulating around our building for months and those who
have been tempted to open "work" or even look at "work" have found
that their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function
properly.
 
If you do encounter "work" via email or are faced with any "work" at
all, then to purge the virus, send an email to your boss with the
words "I've had enough... I'm off."
 
If you receive "work" in paper-document form, simply lift the document
and drag the "work" to your garbage can.
 
Send this message to everyone in your address book. If you do NOT have
anyone in your address book, then I'm afraid the "work" virus has
already corrupted your life.

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I noticed that I haven't linked to my Delicious page, so I thought I would write a post about it!!!

For those who are not familiar with Delicious, it is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. Basically I can bookmark a page as interesting and you can see what I am bookmarking to see if you find anything of interest!

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A friend of mine sent me this... It is from

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