A millionaire’s daughter has been found guilty of killing an elderly woman after writing an 18-page murder manual.
Forgot to write the chapter about Getting Away With It, obviously.
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Murder manual girl found guilty
Oh god kill it with fire
Why are there furries advertising on MSN Messenger? :(
PartyLite’s Website
While investigating some replacement candles for Roz’s nice candle holders, we needed to fill in the Contact Us form on Party Lite’s website, only to be told “This function is only supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers.”
You’d think of all things that a Contact Us page would be cross-browser compatible, or at least they’d offer a reduced-functionality version for non-IE browsers. Since I can’t run IE on my choice of desktop OS, I had to fire up my work laptop and use IE on there to fill in their form. I also took the time to locate an email address for them and email them asking why their site needed IE for that page (the rest of it works fine in Firefox).
I was thrilled to receive this automated reply, shown here with broken linebreaks intact as it appeared in my Inbox:
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:03:49 +0100 From: “Info Marketing” Subject: Re: Website Reply-To: Info@uk.partylite.com To: james @jamesoff.net ^M Many thanks for your email regarding further information from PartyLite UK.^M ^M If your enquiry was regarding hosting a Show, a representative in your local area will be in touch with you shortly.^M ^M Should you have a product-related query, please visit our web site at www.partylite.co.uk , or contact our Customer Service department on 01923 848730. ^M ^M Please note that PartyLite catalogues, candles and accessories are only available via independent PartyLite UK consultants, and are not available for purchase direct, in retail outlets or via the internet.^M ^M The PartyLite UK Team^M ^M —————————————–^M ***********************************************************^M ^M NOTICE: This transmission and any documents attached to it may contain^M Confidential information intended for the sole use of the addressee(s).^M Any^M disclosure, copying, distribution or use of confidential information^M contained^M in this transmission by persons or entities other than the intended^M recipient^M is unlawful. If you have received this transmission in error, please^M immediately notify the sender and permanently delete/destroy all^M contents.^M
I shall be interested to see their reply, assuming they send it in a format I can read in mutt.
rtorrent problem
I had been using rtorrent recently on my FreeBSD machine, but after a portupgrade recently it broke. This evening I decided to have another look at it and ended up ktrace’ing it.
It seems the new version looked for a differently worded setting in the rc file, and was half-segfaulting on encountering the bad line. Fixing the name of the setting fixed the client, hooray!
A8V-E Deluxe not so “Deluxe”
^– ruined :(
Let’s hope Asus will send me a new one, my northbridge is getting quite warm.
Egg Security
Yesterday I incompetently forgot my password for my Egg account and I wanted to pay some money off my credit card. Having locked my account out by remembering the wrong password three times I phoned Egg up and reset it. When asked for the new password, I started with “Captial G, lower case D, …”* and was interrupted to be told “Oh the system only uses lowercase letters.”
Uh huh.
So after all the warnings about “Make sure no one can overhear you” and “Don’t tell anyone your password” they restrict your options for your password to 36 characters (wouldn’t surprise me if symbols weren’t allowed either). Smart.
* Actual password characters changed to protect members of this story.
New BBC Weather maps
According to BBC News from Monday they’re going to be replacing the old maps with new 3D ones. Shame, the old symbols are amazing because they’re so easily recognisable compared to some of the other weather programmes’ symbols.
I’m sure they know what they’re doing.
Waste of a PDF
A PDF whose sole purpose is to contain a clickable link?
Orange SPV 500
So why can’t the 500 generate curley brackets? that means i can’t login to stuff at work.
Amazon’s Search Engine
It’s not exactly confidence inspiring for Amazon’s A9 search engine that if you put “Living with Michael Jackson” into amazon.co.uk it says
We found no matches for “living with michael jackson” . Below are results for “with” . If you prefer, you may try another search.
and then suggests a wireless ADSL router and an iPod.