Simon Perry: Schemes, dreams & trivia

I’ve seen it all now. Spammers are clearly getting into mash-up culture, as today, the offering that arrived for me today was … Penis Enhancement Patches.
Logical isn’t it. Take the hugely popular, Viagra-type product and combine it with anti-smoke patches. What do you get?
There’s a range of products available from the low-end steel to […]

Lighting rope - upper landing

Originally uploaded by Simon.

Having been in our new house for about four months, we’ve moved from the position of thinking that we know what we wanted to do with it, through the realisation that we didn’t really understand; returning to the point where […]

Holy Moly, the weekly show biz gossip email, appears to have changed their style. They normally put across a “we don’t care, no one can touch us” attitude - specialising on being consciously cutting - but Friday saw a brief update from them
In a mailshot sent today entitled “Like a caveman hollowing out a brontosaurus” […]

Want a tip on one easy way to put yourself to the top of the Phishing/Virus most wanted? Fancy having your door kicked down in the middle of the night? Possibly tomorrow night?
Send out your mails claiming to be the CIA.
Wait for the knock boys, wait for the knock.

From: Office@cia.gov
Date: Nov 22, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: […]

I’m not a fan of George Bush. In fact I think he’s pretty evil, so it was with great delight that I watched the video of him looking uneasy in front of reporters, then trying to run away.
The fantastic icing on the cake, the door that he scurried away to was locked.
His reaction was shock/terror. […]

Stupid presents - Napkin Hook

Originally uploaded by Simon.

You know that this is the time of year that unrequested brochures fall though your letter box wasting paper, print, time and money.
Chomping on my porridge this morning I thought I browse through one of them (unnamed) as you often […]

Nestling in the comments, where religious nutters were getting carried away, someone threw in a spanner.
If God is so against homosexuality, why’d he give us buttholes?.
Perfect idiot bait.

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As I think I mentioned, I’ve switched back to Apple for my main machine, after about 20 years of PC usage, following my original Mac Plus period.
I bought an 12″ iBook laptop rather than a Powerbook. The reasons were sound.

Anything bigger that a 12″ machine isn’t as portable as I need - even at that […]

Using the ever-great TheyWorkForYou.com, which takes what is said in the UK parliament, and makes easily accessible to the countries citizens, I see that when Marc Harper asked how much it is expected to cost to run the proposed ID card scheme in the UK, Tony McNulty (Minister of State, Home Office)replied
The current best estimate […]

I really love when people take on, what could be seen as, slightly mad projects.
Darron Schall took it upon himself to write a client, in Flash, for the all time classic, VNC. IN FLASH for goodness sakes.
It’s yet to be released publically, but sounds like it’s coming along well.
He calls it, unsurprisingly, FlashVNC.
Hurrah for […]