Michael Jackson now has 13 songs in the UK Top 40. But only "Man in the mirror" is in the top 10 at #2. Cascada is back and at #1 with "Evacuate the dancefloor".
Mark Cavendish won his second stage of the Tour de France. Don't know what was with the victory celebration as he crossed the line. He made an expressionless phone gesture. Wonder if he was calling home. Amazingly despite 2 wins out of the first 3 stages, he is only 142nd in the general standings.
Carphone Warehouse. I am trying to do the math here but there is a deal where you can get an 18 month contract for 15 pounds per month (15Gb monthly limit) which includes a free 499 pounds. So the total cost of the contract is 270 pounds, which makes me wonder how the hell they are making money!
There must be a catch!
Friday, 10 July 2009
Random Musings - Day #187
187 is numeric code for murder. as opposed to Dial M for murder. Like Dial M for Murder, it is a movie too. And 187 Lockdown were a garage act from the 90s.
Serena Williams won the Wimbledon title and I like the t-shirt, she was wearing at
the press conference. It said, "Stop staring at my titles"!
Roger Federer won his 15th grand slam and his 6th Wimbledon title. He has seen by his peers as the greatest now as he surpassed Pete Sampras' record of 14. Federer's stamina won in the end. The final game was the only game that Federer won on Roddick's serve.
Serena Williams won the Wimbledon title and I like the t-shirt, she was wearing at
the press conference. It said, "Stop staring at my titles"!
Roger Federer won his 15th grand slam and his 6th Wimbledon title. He has seen by his peers as the greatest now as he surpassed Pete Sampras' record of 14. Federer's stamina won in the end. The final game was the only game that Federer won on Roddick's serve.
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Random Musings - Day #185
Not much to report really been in the garden clearing up. It was July 4th today which America's Independence Day. It's a bit surprising that apparently the states had a holiday on the Friday and not the following Monday. The USA Holidays 2009 list shows this. Also heard the distance noise of fireworks from my house. Slightly surprising since I am in the UK and wouldn't have thought we celebrated that.
Friday, 3 July 2009
Random Musings - Day #184
SSL VPN
Just for my sanity but here's a list of the big players in the SSL VPN market...
- AEP
- Array Networks
- Barracuda
- Cisco
- Citrix
- Juniper
- Positive Networks
- OpenVPN
- Sonicwall
- StoneGate
- Firepass
- Sonicwall
- Zyxel
Web Proxy/Filtering
I have seen a few Blue Coat boxes on my travels. You could also farm out the proxy but that's a bit dangerous. Do you really trust them. If so, an example is megaproxy
Meanwhile a techno news i bumped into is Light Reading
System Tools
Lots of useful system tools for Windows as sysinternals. Can create a service from an app with srvany. And here's a guide and tips to up privs from power user to administrator.
Just for my sanity but here's a list of the big players in the SSL VPN market...
- AEP
- Array Networks
- Barracuda
- Cisco
- Citrix
- Juniper
- Positive Networks
- OpenVPN
- Sonicwall
- StoneGate
- Firepass
- Sonicwall
- Zyxel
Web Proxy/Filtering
I have seen a few Blue Coat boxes on my travels. You could also farm out the proxy but that's a bit dangerous. Do you really trust them. If so, an example is megaproxy
Meanwhile a techno news i bumped into is Light Reading
System Tools
Lots of useful system tools for Windows as sysinternals. Can create a service from an app with srvany. And here's a guide and tips to up privs from power user to administrator.
Random Musings - Day #183
Tear down these walls
Poor Cliff Richard! Not only is not able to sing at Wimbledon as it's not raining, he's being forced to tear down his conservatory because it was built before planning permissions was granted.
To me the whole planning permission to put something up on YOUR land is a joke. That's the biggest red tape, you can wait a long while before gets sorted and it is expensive. A council's way to get free money for something that doesn't belong to them.
West Auckland vs Juventus
It's 100 years since the mighty West Auckland won what was then known as the World Cup when they beat of all teams, Juventus. And now the team go back to play the same team in a friendly.
Running
Two useful sites for mapping and measuring your runs are runningahead.com and mapmyrun.
Poor Cliff Richard! Not only is not able to sing at Wimbledon as it's not raining, he's being forced to tear down his conservatory because it was built before planning permissions was granted.
To me the whole planning permission to put something up on YOUR land is a joke. That's the biggest red tape, you can wait a long while before gets sorted and it is expensive. A council's way to get free money for something that doesn't belong to them.
West Auckland vs Juventus
It's 100 years since the mighty West Auckland won what was then known as the World Cup when they beat of all teams, Juventus. And now the team go back to play the same team in a friendly.
Running
Two useful sites for mapping and measuring your runs are runningahead.com and mapmyrun.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Random Musings - Day #182
Canada Day
Today is Canada's Independence day or Dominion Day. Canada is 142 years old. Meanwhile it's arguable Hong Kong Day too as the handover to China took place on this day in 1997.
Essential items over inflation rate
There are so many ways to interpret economy indicators. To me, food and energy costs have been going up. These factors may or may not be included in these indicators as a consequence, you get a slight misdemeanor where general inflation is low compared to the inflation of essential items (e.g. food has gone up 9%). Those that require essential items are the not well-off and they are struggling.
Veggies beat cancer
The claim that vegetables avoid more cancers may be taken with a pinch of salt. But you can decide for yourself.
Gagging and unmasking
People in the know being gagged is not a new thing and case in point as a researcher is barred from presenting a
ATM Security Vulnerability.
According to some security experts shoulder surfing is not a problem as they state masked passwords should just disappear.
Nothing beats a swine flu party
People are actually trying to catch the killer flu deliberately, thinking the effect is not as bad in the summer as it would be in the winter. So why not have a party
Celebrity Deaths
Ever since Michael Jackson died, aside from the numerous jokes. A number of fake deaths have occurred. Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and even Rick Astley have suffered from the hoax. The hoaxes are apparently originating from twitter and used for link baiting, which forces users interested celeb deaths to visit advertisers site to increase traffic and per click revenue.
Talking of death matches how about the iphone -vs- pre death match.
How to Hack
Here's how to become a hacker
Today is Canada's Independence day or Dominion Day. Canada is 142 years old. Meanwhile it's arguable Hong Kong Day too as the handover to China took place on this day in 1997.
Essential items over inflation rate
There are so many ways to interpret economy indicators. To me, food and energy costs have been going up. These factors may or may not be included in these indicators as a consequence, you get a slight misdemeanor where general inflation is low compared to the inflation of essential items (e.g. food has gone up 9%). Those that require essential items are the not well-off and they are struggling.
Veggies beat cancer
The claim that vegetables avoid more cancers may be taken with a pinch of salt. But you can decide for yourself.
Gagging and unmasking
People in the know being gagged is not a new thing and case in point as a researcher is barred from presenting a
ATM Security Vulnerability.
According to some security experts shoulder surfing is not a problem as they state masked passwords should just disappear.
Nothing beats a swine flu party
People are actually trying to catch the killer flu deliberately, thinking the effect is not as bad in the summer as it would be in the winter. So why not have a party
Celebrity Deaths
Ever since Michael Jackson died, aside from the numerous jokes. A number of fake deaths have occurred. Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George Clooney, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford and even Rick Astley have suffered from the hoax. The hoaxes are apparently originating from twitter and used for link baiting, which forces users interested celeb deaths to visit advertisers site to increase traffic and per click revenue.
Talking of death matches how about the iphone -vs- pre death match.
How to Hack
Here's how to become a hacker
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