Year: 2003

SPAM

This is one of the greatest and funniest spam emails ever, i just came across it on a website somewhere:
(Note: the urls have been removed)


Welcome to the site www.CENSORED.com, it’s us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list:

1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form.
2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only).
3. Other rockets (Air-to-Air), orders in batches of 10.
4. New shipment of cocaine has arrived, buy 9 grams and get 10th for free.
5. We also offer gay-slaves for sale, we offer only such service on the NET,
you can choose the one you like, then get straight to business.
6. Fake currencies, such as Euros and US dollars, prices would match competition.
7. Also, as always, we offer widest range of child pornography and exclusive lolita galleries, to keep out clients busy.

Everyone is welcome, be it in States or any other place worldwide.

ATTENTION. Clearance offer. Buy 30 grams of heroin, get 5 free.
Prepay your batch of rockets (air-to-air) and recieve a portable rocket lacuncher for free.

www.BLEEP.com

This offer won’t last! Only until 20th of August all our clients will also recieve
a pack of 2 CDs, with best selection of child pornography.

It’s totally unbelievable what you can get in your email inbox these days, lol…

Skype

Was just surfing around when i came across this new software called Skype, it’s still in it’s beta phase but has already been downloaded 240,000 times 😉

It’s a P2P VoIP (Peer-to-Peer Voice over IP) application, which enables online telephony for free between users of this application.
It also incorporates an instant messenger as a supplementary feature.

It’s by the makers of KaZaA, and they keep bragging about the superior voice quality in Skype, so i’m downloading it for a test drive, and if it lives up to it’s expectations, then just maybe i can use it to cut down a bit of the international calls expenses on my telephone bill, lol…

Will review it on here as soon as i finish downloading it and get to try it…

For more info and to download it, go to: http://www.skype.com

Getting Connected

Well this is just a short little post to share this feeling i have right now…

It’s so amazing how we people take things for granted, i mean here we are, everyday getting online, doing whatever we have to do and then disconnecting and going on with our lives, but do we ever take the time to think about what we’re doing ? i mean, that little click on that “Connect” button actually opens a door for us to the world, to a network of people from all over the globe, and for those few moments that we’re online, we’re actually really connected, all of us connected together and in one single space, i think it’s marvellous and mind blowing.

I’m not new to the web, in fact i’m so far from that, i’ve been online for ages, and for someone who works in the domain of creating more and more websites and injecting them into the web, i should be so fed up of the internet, and well sometimes i am, but still the concept is amazing, and no one can deny that.

What’s even greater is that now we’re not restricted to getting connected just from behind our computer screens, we can actually do it from anywhere, on the move, through our mobile phones.

Just think about it for a while, and you’ll see how awesome all this is, even though now it’s just an ordinary little detail of our everyday lives.

It’s stuff like this that keeps me in the business, lol…

Dreamweaver MX 2004

I downloaded a Trial version of Dreamweaver MX 2004 last week, and have been playing around with it whenever i have time to at work, and i must say it’s really great, the best web editing tool just got a lot better.

The best added features i love in it are:
– The cleaner and neater interface. It’s eye candy.
– The Table/Cell information that is shown when you click inside a cell.
– The image editing features that were integrated in it for cropping and resizing and stuff.
– The better CSS support.

Of course it has a number of other great features, and still some other ones i haven’t discovered yet, but these are the ones that came off the top of my head right now.

My advice to anyone, this is the tool to have, the best version as yet.

Another software i’m dying to try is ColdFusion MX 6.1, so will be trying to download it soon.

Blog *.* from Sep 1 to Now

Well, haven’t really had time to put anything on my blog lately, a lot of work, and a busy after-work schedule, lol.

My wife’s sister is here to visit, and it’s been great fun going out everyday showing her around and taking her to places we’ve discovered over the past year or so since her last visit 🙂

Just this saturday, we went to Carthage Land again, and this time it was even greater because there were less people, and we actually got to get on all the rides as many times as we wished.

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Carthage Land

Yesterday, we finally got to go and check out Carthage Land, the all new and very first theme park in Tunisia, built in the great touristic station of Yasmine Hammamet.

It was really cool and fun, we enjoyed it very much 🙂
The games and rides are cool, and the atmosphere is great. A very good inititiative from the Poulina Group.

My only advice to anyone is not to go there on a weekend afternoon, especially that these are it’s first weeks, choose some other day when the park is emptier and you can enjoy it more 😉

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Aaaarrrrgghhhh !

It’s unbelievable, totally unbelievable how a nice place and great shopping experience can turn into a nightmare and somewhere you avoid going to. That’s what’s happening (or i think already happened) to the Tunisian Carrefour.

A year ago, it was the best place to be for shopping, you’d find anything you need, have a good meal, enjoy your time and go home waiting for the next time you’ll be there, but now it’s something totally different, it’s a place i just can’t stand to go close to anymore, it’s so full of people at any given moment of any given day of any given month, it’s so noisy, it’s full of chaos, in short it has become a bad shopping experience.

Now i hear some people thinking, well go shop from somewhere else, well i do whenever i can, but there are certain things i need that i can only find in Carrefour, so i have to drop over there every once in a while to get that stuff, and believe me, it’s turning into hell whenever i do.

I’m hearing they’ll be opening a new Carrefour somewhere in the Center of Tunis, so i’m hoping it’s true and that it opens quickly and that most of the load moves to that branch, giving us our great shopping experience back.

Saving (or NOT !)

Before an hour or so, the power went off in the whole area (i can just hear those lazy guys at the electricity company going like “Come on, the power went off in New York, and you’re complaining cause it went off in Charguia 2, give us a break !”), and we guys at work ended up waiting for the electricity to come back on in the Recreation room talking about a load of meaningless crap as usual, lol.

Anyway, some of the guys used the chance to have an early lunch, in an effort to optimize their time (as management puts it, lol), and that triggered a talk about how some were trying to save on Soda cans and on other stupid small stuff by buying them from this place or the other, which made me think how weird some people are, they try and save pennies on some small items while they don’t mind it at all to go for a night out and spend really big money on a meal at a luxurious restaurant or to buy an over-priced something they don’t really need.

Thinking about that, only makes me look more at the human nature of our days and see all the other weird contradictions it has, lol.

It’s so weird and funny how a creature so complicated and advanced as a human being can contradict itself time and time again without realizing it.

It all makes me kind of wonder how developed we really are, and whether we really do think enough about the things we do in our lives or if we just go along with whatever dumb thought that crosses our mind first, lol.

Blasted, and now secured…

Yes, i was blasted, i have no idea how, but my pc had all the symptoms of the MS Blaster worm: shutting itself down and stuff.
Anyway, i was able to clean it up yesterday, and life is back to normal again 🙂

The key to fixing it i found was to not open Internet Explorer, so i used Opera to go to the Microsoft website and download the patch, and then everything went on great.
But with all the hatred between Opera and Microsoft, and how they both try to screw each other up, you can imagine what an experience it was surfing the Microsoft website using Opera 😛

I tested earthstation5 yesterday, and well it has all the functionalities of a P2P program, but it still needs more and more people to move to it and start using it and sharing stuff on it.

I’ve also been playing around with eMule, trying to find a substitute for KaZaA (which annoys me with all its ads and hidden spyware), and eMule seems to be quite cool. It also has an IRC client built in, which reminded me of the old days when i used to chat on mIRC.