Why oh why do spammers try (ineffectively) to make their spams look like they come from someone else? This is an example of a spam I received sent to myself from myself apparently, which really fucks the brain. I desperately want to find these spammers and remove their genitalia (external and internal) using whatever tools and methods are suggested here. What is really worrying, is that the spammer even left traces of their internal network structure in the Received headers. SIGH

Today Pepperfish suffered a catastrophic hardware failure resulting in the need to install a brand new machine. This meant that myself, Livejournal:nunfetishist and a friend of ours Vivek spent many many hours in telehouse in London, sorting out new hardware and porting services across. Hopefully it’s all done now, so I’m off to bed.

Am I the only person already fed up with christmas?

Apparently, this is me: I'm meant to strike out bits which don't apply to me.... Active and dynamic. Decisive and hasty but tends to regret. Attractive and affectionate to oneself. Strong mentality. Loves attention. Diplomatic. Consoling, friendly and tries to solve people's problems. Brave and fearless. Adventurous. Loving and caring. Suave and generous. Emotional. Aggressive. Hasty. Good memory. Motivates oneself and others. Sickness usually of the head and chest. Sexy in a way that only their lover can see.

Cut — quizilla, mmmm

You choose your friends wisely and even though they
may be few in number, they are high in
importance. You feel most comfortable when you can follow the
crowd and let others make decisions. But that's
not to say you can't make up your own mind if
you need to. Faithful and true, Piglets make the best friends.

Which Pooh character are you?
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During a high-powered meeting of top executives in the familiar surroundings of the farm kitchen, a decision was finally reached, regarding the taxonomy of the American government during the reign of the term in office of George Bush Jr. The most applicable term appears to be: idiotocracy It truly is the government of the people idiots, by the people idiots for the people idiots. Spread the news—we finally know what to call them. Update: It seems we’re in good company

Cut — Geek alert!
Well, I have to admit, Xfce4 is rather yummy. Livejournal:brainstewed was I believe the first person to mention it to me, and eventually a night or two ago, having reached the final straw with Gnome 2.4 being irritating at us, we switched. Bob's desktop, my laptop, and my desktop at work now all run Xfce4. We've noticed issues, and they'll have to be fixed as time goes by, but to be honest, the relative speed and smoothness of things offsets the fact that it's not quite as integrated or featureful as gnome. It took us about 5 minutes to work out what file to edit to configure some keybindings we wanted etc. Now it may be the case that we had to edit files, but at least xfce4 doesn't claim to have GUIs for it, only to pull the help when you report a bug that the GUI doesn't seem to be there. All I need now, is a battery applet for the panel, a system load monitor etc. All these exist and will soon be packaged for Debian. I tend to only run packaged stuff so that I can be sure of install/uninstall/upgrade capabilities. Oh yeah, and I need two rows of workspaces or my brain will explode. But that's okay because it's already on their wishlist. If I ever get time to myself I might try helping with hacking on xfwm etc. Until then, I'll re-learn to cope with only a single wrapping row of workspaces.

This meme is stolen from Livejournal:gwendraith The idea is to pick a song for each of your LJ friends…

Cut — click here for the results
Some of these songs were picked because the title was apt, some because the lyrics were apt, some because I just felt like it. Those marked with a T are apt titles, a L denotes apt lyrics, also, a S denotes that it is the sentiment which I think echoes in the person. All this is subject to my odd opinion of course ;-)

Livejournal:brainstewed T

Kirsty MacColl— Innocence

Livejournal:cjwatson T

Tom Lehrer—Irish Ballad

Livejournal:dpash L

Soft Cell—Insecure Me

Livejournal:ethelthefrog T

Frank Zappa—Catholic Girls

Livejournal:gerald_duck S

Flanders and Swan—Have some Madeira, m’dear

Livejournal:gwendraith S

Diana Ross—I will survive

Livejournal:jenblower tongue-in-cheek

Beautiful South— Mirror

Livejournal:kalipha T

Tiger army—Never die

Livejournal:keybuk T

Five Star—System addict

Livejournal:kjaneway S

Gloria Gaynor—I am what I am

Livejournal:kyllikki S

Bruce Springsteen—Car Wash

Livejournal:met24 T

Pink Floyd—Learning to fly

Livejournal:milchi T

Elton John and Tim Rice—I just can’t wait to be king

Livejournal:nunfetishist L

Barry White—You’re the first, my last, my everything

Livejournal:thombola T

Kylie Minogue—Better the devil you know

Livejournal:velvetpurrs T

Robbie Williams—Me and my Monkey

If you’re not in the list, I simply couldn’t think of a song for you (I may not know you well enough), or you got skipped due to my incompetence. Post a comment if you want including.