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Friday, 17 September 2004

Something Soft ::

The mailbox is under control again. I took a peek at what the new filters were catching. The bounced spam keeps pouring in. They are all promoting the same couple of fly-by-night warez sites under about 10 different domain names so far—they try to stay one step ahead of their name service and web servers being shut down (I took some pleasure in noting that the domains they registered on Friday were no longer resolving on Tuesday.) And they changed their purported company name from “ChepSoft LLC” to “${randomword}soft”, which produced these gems: ...

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Hero ::

Saw Hero last Saturday. C had recommended it perhaps two years ago and I’d gone looking for it in vain. My ex teaches swordsmanship so I mentioned it to her. She’d also seen the original, uncut version and said that it had been awesome and that she suspected the cut version wouldn’t be as good. I hope the DVD has the uncut version. Fantastic, fabulous, mythic... Andy Ihnatko: “See it, or I’ll slap you senseless”.