As the title suggests i now have an interest in developing applications for the iphone. Everyone seems to be having such a fantastic time doing it so i thought why not me too?
I have found out in the last several weeks since i decided this would be something i would like to try, that it is very hard indeed to register as a company to apples iphone developer program. Many emails and several hundred FAX attempts later, (YES FAX!? Apple pls wtf?) i am patiently awaiting some kind of response from apple, somewhere. When this happens i will have my mits on the latest version 3 of the SDK to play with. Then i hand it over to my mate Timmy G to perform some coding nerdery and we will both make a bajillion space bucks.
Until then! Or until something else urges me to make a useless post huhu.
Well, there you go, after once being the 3rd most popular website on the internet and Yahoo! aquiring it for something like $3 billion USD, Geocities is going to close. Normally i wouldnt give a shit but this particular free web host holds a special place in my heart. You see, it is the home of The Official PorkSword Homepage.
Not only does this mean that the site will close and the homepage, which has been there for 10 years (!!) will be no more, it will really actually be totally no more as i have no idea what the login details are for the site so I have no way to save the data. Unless of course i manually save every bit of it, but i wont do that cos that is lame.
So, to all you PorkSword fans out there, and i know there are… some, this year will be the last year you can view our homepage so make the most of it! In my opinion this is “out of line”.
EDIT: fuck it. what was i thinking? i’ve downloaded the entire site using a nifty little application, so now all we need is a domain to bung it on. I could just throw it up on one of mine but i feel we need our own such as www.porksword.com. Unfortunately, that site is already registered and parked as a gay resource site hah. I have put in an offer to the owner on sedo.co.uk. Will see if i get a response!
Overnight all 23 of my domains were hacked, all be it rather nicely, by the infamous Turkish hacker, iskorpitx.
If you Google his name you get almost 70,000 results. A couple of years back he was breaking records by hacking more than 20,000 sites all at the same time.
Fortunately for me and however many other sites were done, these kinds of hacks are more of a statement than malicious and the fix was just to simply restore or delete the little plain text index.html file and all was back to normal.
After having domains on the net since 2003 this is my first time being hacked!
In July, our Postini datacenters saw the biggest volume of email virus attacks so far in 2008, with a peak of nearly 10 million messages on July 24. One of the more prominent attacks in the month involved a spoofed UPS package-tracking link that was intended to lure recipients into clicking on it and downloading malware. Our zero-hour virus protection technology first started catching these emails on July 20.
July Breaks Record in Virus Attacks
Spam Levels Remain High: April showed peak spam volumes for 2008, but the overall level of spam remains high this summer. The average user has received 133 spam messages per day this year. Our statistics show that the average unprotected user would have received 36,000 spam messages in 2006 and 36,000 in 2007. This year’s July total shows a 68% growth rate over the same time in 2007. In short, spam attacks in 2008 have not let up from previous years.
Viruses tend to increase during the summer months, and August is already showing some new types of viruses. On August 5, we saw a large inflow of messages with an encrypted .RAR attachment. The overall 2008 trend has been a decrease in the use of attachments, so this new virus is confirmation that spam doesn’t follow trends for long.
These examples are also a good reminder about the importance of educating our colleagues, friends, and family on how to safely interact with email — namely, that we should all be careful about clicking on links in emails, even if those messages appear to be from people or organizations we know.
Of course when you find one of natures greatest mysteries and you’re American, the first thing you should do is kill it. Now to the untrained eye that up there might just look like a stinking pile of wet shag carpet with a gorilla mask and some uncooked sausages, but to seasoned Big Foot hunters like Mathew Whitton, Tom Biscardi, and Rick Dyer, this is in fact a 7 foot tall Big Foot carcass they found somewhere in Georgia. And now it’s in a freezer.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and fiveand three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.
One of the most reputable new sources in the world, Fox News has a story on youtube.
So apparently they had the thing in a freezer and they tried to get it to freeze in a block of ice by filling the freezer with water which broke it. Deary me.
I wonder what this will yield. Surely just some viral marketing campaign. Sure is working so far!
So ANZ has finally sold all its share of Solagran (asx:sla) today. Thank feck! I have been stressing over this and watching the share price hover above and bellow 30c for the last… forever.
So hoorah! Already up 36% at the time of writing. No reports on Ropren yet i’m guessing they might wait a week or so.
Mozilla.com web traffic is pushing well over 2 Gigabits a second of just pure HTTP traffic. That is in addition to the 13 Gigabits a second or so of download traffic. We are still at around 14,000 download/minute and mozilla.com is responding well! Go Mozilla community and IT team!
Well, to be honest i don’t really think about Charlton Heston that much and this really doesn’t come as much surprise the man was about 1000 years old (read – 84). Anyway, he has been around for quite a long time doing various crazy things such as being the President of the National Rifle Association and also the not as crazy Screen Actors Guild. The cause of death is not yet known, he was diagnosed with symptoms consistent with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2002.
I was on the city bus when the murder transpired. I had just travelled to the public library to rent a copy of The Ten Commandments. The events that followed led naturally to the murder, and I do not fault myself for it. I am positive anyone would have done the same thing if put in my position.
What happened was this: I suddenly felt the urge to kill a man with my bare hands. The lust sometimes comes over me— as I am sure it does us all— and I find it best not to argue with the kill-lust, but rather feed the hunger as one would a pet of some kind.
Reaching over to the man next to me, I lightly placed my hand atop his shoulder, and with the other hand holding The Ten Commandments attempted a friendly wave.
“Hello, hippie,” I said chummily. “Petitioned your government to abolish guns lately? Me too—we’re all hippie friends here. There’s nothing to be frightened of.”
“Um hey,” said the man. “Say aren’t you Cha—”, and then I damned well killed him, pummeling him in the neck with The Ten Commandments until he was dead.
I laughed a hearty baritone laugh, with my hands atop my hips. “I’m Charlton damned Heston!” I yelled to everyone on the bus. “And I just killed a man with my own damned hands, you filthy hippies!”
After around 1400 years, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary decided that The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, required a bit of a modern update to include some of the more pressing threats to that crazy Vatican crowd.
The seven social sins are:
1. “Bioethical’ violations such as birth control
2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty
The old ones are way cooler imo. Maybe they should make up some rad word for “Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor” and i will be more interested. hah!
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