Author: Adam

MMM: Mitsuoka Orochi

I thought it might just look goofy from the front, but no, it’s goofy all round.

Mitsuoka Orochi

Please Hold

When I finally get around to building an Asterisk box, this is going on it. :)

Hushmail not very… Hushy?

“The amount of data which Hushmail was required to turn over to the US DEA relating to 3 email addresses.  3 + 9 = 12 CDs  What kind of and for what length of time does Hushmail store logs?”

(Via Cryptome.) 

FedEx v UPS

Great ad. Pity they don’t spend more time and money on, you know, logistics…

FedEx v UPS

Live.com e-mail addresses available

Go to Live.com and click a Hotmail link, then a signup link. If you already have an account, you might need to log out or delete your cookies. If you want a .com address instead of a localised one, get Tor and install it, then  set your proxy address to 127.0.0.1 port 8118.

(Via News.com)

Dell dumps Ubuntu

How you could discontinue a friendly OS like Ubuntu and at the same time start standardising on a complete piece of shit like Vista is just beyond me. However the first comment is probably right, the whole affair just a stick to beat MS with.

The INQ: Dell no longer supplies Ubuntu pre-installed. “It has been discontinued in the UK,” a closed source said.

Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters

I’d like to reproduce the entire list here, but that wouldn’t be fair to Michael. Be sure to read it all on his website, whether you voted for them or not. Go on, don’t just read the stories that back up your politics, read something contrary once in a while.

That’s Ireland: “so far they have gotten away with at least fifty ways to laugh at voters, including taking the highest-paid political salaries in the democratic world, Bertie Ahern’s incredible fairy-tales about getting dig-out loans from plasterers, giving £30,000 to someone he can’t remember and getting briefcases of cash from future landlords who were at dinners but didn’t eat the dinners, Frank Dunlop’s stash of bribes for buying councillors, Liam ‘Mr Big’ Lawlor being jailed three times after chairing the Dail Ethics Committee, Michael Collins being found guilty of tax evasion, Michael ‘Stroke’ Fahey being jailed for fraud while chairing a Prison Visiting Committee, Ivor Callely having his house painted for free and John Ellis owing money to farmers yet both being made Senators after the electorate voted them out of the Dail, €52 million so far spent on unused electronic voting machines, using taxpayers money to make secret deals with scandal-hit independent TDs, creating new Junior Ministers with salaries of €150,000 a year, appointing people to State boards because they are your friends, Willie O’Dea posing with guns pointed at cameras, Jim McDaid drunk driving on the wrong side of a busy dual carriageway, GV Wright drunk driving and knocking over a nurse, Conor Lenihan referring to Turkish workers as kababs, Ray Burke accepting corrupt payments from property developers and radio station owners and being jailed for breaking a tax law he had helped to pass, Beverly Flynn helping people to evade tax and suing RTE for telling people about it, PJ Mara failing to co-operate with a Tribunal, Ned O’Keefe voting on issues his family had business interests in, Joe Jacob giving comical interviews on radio that resulted in useless iodine tablets being sent to every house in the country, Charlie McCreevy nominating a disgraced ex-judge to a £147,000 job as Vice President of the European Investment Bank, Denis Foley ‘hoping against hope’ that his £100,000 was not in an illegal offshore account, Padraig Flynn complaining about the difficulties of maintaining three houses in 1999 on ‘just £100,000 a year’, and a Tribunal finding that Charles Haughey took €45 million in todays money and granted favours in return.”

MMM: Shiny Shiny S80

I know it’s wrong, but I do like polished aluminium cars; probably since the MTM A8 I used to ogle sneakily via my peripheral vision several years ago. Just goes to show, you can even make a Ford-era Volvo look cool.

Shiny S80

Is the C30 a return to form, or just a cheap effort to play on the oddly satisfying 480?