As mentioned in my post entitled A note to Audible about DRM, I wrote to Audible about the DRM in their audiobooks. I have since received a reply:

Dear Jeremy ( Read more... )

Recently, there has been a spate of people taking the Political Compass test. Much of this has been spawned by the Political Compass graph generated by Michael Gorven.

More recently, Jonathan mentioned that while the scores are interesting (note particularly the leftist libertarian clustering of most of CLUG) it would be far more interesting to ( Read more... )

A while ago, I signed up for a subscription with Audible, the internet's leading retailer of audio fiction. Due to DRM issues and my inability to actually listen to their books except under very limited circumstances, I canceled my subscription shortly thereafter. Since then, they have periodically sent me emails with special offers in them to ( Read more... )

I had an all-too-frequent argument this evening. This resulted (as it occasionally does) with the other person storming off in a huff, all offended. The conversations usually goes something like this ( Read more... )

Today, one of the guys I work with (any rumours that I occasionally kick his legs under the desk are entirely unfounded) started a blog. As of this post, Primitive Type is completely empty, but the important thing is that it's there.

Another colleague with a blog is Liehann at Profound Coffee. Expect to read quite a lot about mountain bikes here ( Read more... )

As of this afternoon, I have the keys to my new (temporary) residence in Observatory. It has two spare bedrooms, so if you want to visit me in Cape Town, do it before the end of January. :-)

I have been playing with Project Euler quite a bit recently. It's a fun little project where they give you a bunch of short mathematical programming problems ( Read more... )

I got this on my CLUG address, of all things.

HTML stripped (because it's ugly), email addresses of the guilty left intact.

Note at the end how they're offering me their spam database as well.

From: Database Programs <databaseprograms@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Database Development for R5500!

To reply or be removed send email to: lwdatabasedev@yahoo. ( Read more... )

The other day I received a phishing email targeting First National Bank, so I forwarded it to their online fraud thingy:

From: Jeremy Thurgood ( Read more... )

This is the best 419 scam email I have ever received:

From: "john mitchell" Subject: From: John Mitchell ( Read more... )

I received an email today from a mailing list to which I did not subscribe. It was a Christian evangelistic email that started as follows:

From: goodword@niconet.za.net ( Read more... )