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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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tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
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We had a party last night, nothing huge just some friends over for a Chinese. Me and another of our friends we given the truly exciting job of going to Tescos to buy drinks.

So off we trot to Tesco. We get to the till with our 3 items, a bottle of Sprite, a bottle of coke and some alcohol and as the girl on the till is about 12 she needs to shout at the top of her lungs “ALLLCCAAAAHOOOLLLLL”. Supervisor walks over and asks us for ID. Now I’m nearly 30 and no-one’s asked me for ID in the last 10 year so I’m happy. However the friend I’m with (who’s 20) doesn’t have any ID.

“Sorry I can’t sell this to you?” says the Supervisor

“Why not?” I ask

“Cos you might be buying it for a minor” she indicates to my 20 year old friend stood next to me.

“So let me get this right, I’m not allowed to buy alcohol if I’m accompanied by someone who can’t prove they’re over 18 cos I might walk out the shop and give it to the next ASBO infested greasy teen I meet?”

“Yep”

“Right, I’m off to Morrisons!”

What makes this story more ridiculous is that we weren’t buying vodka or alchopops. No, we were buy a bottle of White Zinfandel! Yes the yobs round our way must get hammered each night on a couple bottle of rosé.