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Hmmm, If you’re bored then don’t search yahoo images for the work ‘franchise’. Why not? You’ll learn!

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Due to ‘popular’ demand, I’ve created a little about me page. Come and have a look and make me feel loved

As you may know, I’m getting married soon and one thing that really annoys me is that when any company (like printers or caterers) hears the word “Wedding” their prices immediately treble. So, it was with great pleasure I read this story on The Register.

Apparently a Kiwi couple decided not to go ahead with a marquee hire from The Great Marquee Company, only to recieve the following e-mail:

Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. Your wedding sounded cheap, nasty and tacky anyway, so we only ever considered you time wasters. Our marquees are for upper class clients which unfortunately you are not. Why don’t you stay within your class level and buy something from payless plastics instead. Kindest Regards Katrina Office Manager

The e-mail has ended up on bridal message boards worldwide and in hundred of mailboxes. Although the company has “apologised”, I somehow think it might hurt their profits a little bit.

My favorite bit of this whole story is that the evil employee who was fired after sending this e-mail, was apparently the CEO’s wife!

The government have today published the new Police and Justice Act, which makes it an offense to “supply or offer to supply any article believing that it is likely to be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of, [a hacking offence]“. The word “article” is defined in the Act to include “any program or data held in electronic form”.

Great! So now we have a system where criminal hackers will carry on producing and using ‘hacking’ software such as nmap, nessus or hping2 but it will be a criminal offense for security industry to use them to test for vulnerabilities.

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If you want to run IE on linux, take a look at IEs4Linux. It’s very easy to install, just type the following as a normal user:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
cd ies4linux-*
./ies4linux