| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Crazy Life | Toad The Wet Sprocket | Coil | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Outside Now | Frank Zappa | Broadway The Hard Way | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | La Quera Baila (The Fair One Dances) | Stan Kenton | Cuban Fire! | Jazz |
| 4. | Lightnin’ Hopkins | R.E.M. | Document | Alternative & Punk |
| 5. | Mahler: Symphony #4 In G – 1. Bedächtig – Nicht Eilen – Recht Gemächlich | Christoph von Dohnányi; Cleveland Orchestra | Mahler: Symphony #4 | Classical |
| 6. | Soul Kitchen | The Doors | The Doors | Rock |
| 7. | Run Away! | Monty Python’s Spamalot | Original Cast Recording | Soundtrack |
| 8. | Bought For A Song | Fountains Of Wayne | Welcome Interstate Managers | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | Selim | Miles Davis | Live Evil [Disc 2] | Jazz |
| 10. | One Short Day | Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel, Ensemble | Wicked: Original Broadway Cast | Soundtrack |
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
Friday Random Ten: 2008-02-29
Microsoft Mega Lottery
Another fake Microsoft lottery scam gets by the spam filter.
From: Microsoft Mega Lottery <peter_coleagent@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: microsoft_lotteryaward008@yahoo.com.hk
Date: 28 Feb 2008 10:51:21 -0500
Subject: MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT 2008
MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT 2008
REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L
BATCH: 4583JL/WIN
MICROSOFT EMAIL LOTTERY AWARD PROMOTION: UNITED KINGDOM Finally today, we announce the winners of the MICROSOFT MEGA JACKPOT LOTTO WINNINGS PROGRAMS held early this month 2008. Your company or your personal e-mail address, attached to winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100, With serial number 647489, consequently won in the Tenth lottery category.You have been approved for lump sums pay out of £850,000.00 (Eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterlings) in cash Credited to file REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. Selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection machine (TOPAZ) from a database of over 1,000,000 email addresses drawn from all the continents of the world.
Your random computerized email selection machine really sucks. It seems incapable of generating unique winning numbers.
The online draws was conducted by a random selection of email addresses from an exclusive list of 29,031 E-mail addresses of individuals and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer search from the internet. No ticket were sold but all email addresses were assigned to different ticket numbers for representation and privacy. This is to encourage our prominent Microsoft Internet Explorer users all over the world, and for the Continues use of E-mail.
for the Continues use of E-mail – proofread much? Since I don’t use Microsoft Internet Explorer, your “selection process” obviously failed.
Your fund has been insured with your REF NO: MSW/56B-672GH/L and winning number 23-76-06-54-42-100. To claim your winning prize, You are to reply to this letter In order to avoid unnecessary delays and complications, please remember to quote your reference and winning numbers in all correspondences with your claims officer. You are to keep all lotto information away from the general public especially your ticket number and ballot number.(This is important as a case of double claims will not be entertained)
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU ARE TO SEND THE BELOW INFORMATION REQUIRED TO CLAIM YOUR WINNING PRIZE:
1. Full Name: ……………………………………………………..
2. Address: …………………………………………………………
3. Nationality: …………………………………………………….
4. Age: …………………….Date of Birth: …………………..
5. Occupation: …………………………………………………….
6. Phone: ……………Phone 2: ……………….Fax: no……..
7. State of Origin: ………………….Country: ………………
Rev.Mike Smith
Rev.? Are we supposed to be impressed?
Online Co-ordinator
LOTTERY SPONSOR
Microsoft Corporation U.K.
2008
Why would “Microsoft Corporation U.K.” use a Yahoo Hong Kong email address and why would it send email from a computer in Nigeria?
(more…)How Fast?
(via sekmet ) My budget blueprint will restrain spending, yet meet growing needs with a reasonable 4 percent growth rate, which is a little more than inflation. After paying the bills, my plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to [...]
Mmmm, Zero Gravity Kimchi
A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before: Now kimchi is set to conquer the final frontier: space. When South Korea’s first astronaut, Ko San, blasts off April 8 aboard a Russian spaceship bound for the International Space Station, the beloved national dish will be on board. Three top government research institutes spent [...]
I’ve been tagged for a book meme
(via Dunner’s)
The Rules:
- You have to look up page 123 in the nearest book around you.
- Look for the fifth sentence.
- Then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.
- And then tag five people, just like you were tagged!
Let’s see… My home office is packed with books, so I’ll also do both fiction and non-fiction.
Fiction: Unknown Means by Elizabeth Becka (by my desk because it just arrived in the mail a few days ago)
Maybe not.
No one wanted to think of Marissa as a victim. Marissa least of all. But if Evelyn tried to avoid the topic, people would assume there has to be more to the story. Nothing beat a good drama like a terrific conspiracy.
Non-Fiction: The ACE Programmer’s Guide: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming by Stephen D. Huston, James CE Johnson, & Umar Syyid (I was using it as a reference yesterday)
This is an application of the Strategy pattern [3], which allows you to change your “strategy” without making large changes to you implementation. To facilitate changing one set of IPC wrappers for another, ACE’s are related in sets:
[list deleted]
Each class abstracts a bit of low level mess of traditional socket programming. All together, the classes create an easy-to-use type-safe mechanism for creating distributed applications. We won’t show you everything they can do, but what we do show covers about 80 percent of the things you’ll normally need to do.
I’ll tag (a more or less random selection from my blogroll):
Oxford Online Lottery
Another Oxford lottery scam gets by the spam filter… From: Oxford Online Lottery <line-17@earthlink.net> earthlink.net – Why would something called “OXFORD ONLINE LOTTERY” use an Earthlink email address? Reply-To: Oxford Online Lottery <line-17@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:26:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00) Subject: Annual Draw Winner Oxford Lottery H.Q 32 Hurst Street Birmingham, B5 4TB United [...]
Rampaging Tank of Hydrazine
(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, February 22, 2008) 2. ANTISATELLITE WEAPONS: THE HYDRAZINE DECEPTION. What do you do when a newly-emergent space power shows off its new anti- satellite capability, as China did last year? Well, you have to show that you too can shoot down a satellite. It’s relatively easy – [...]
Friday Random Ten: 2008-02-22
| Name | Artist | Album | Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Big Dumb Town | Stan Ridgway | Black Diamond | Alternative & Punk |
| 2. | Welcome To The Occupation | R.E.M. | Document | Alternative & Punk |
| 3. | I Never Loved You Anyway | The Corrs | Talk On Corners (Special Edition) | Pop |
| 4. | The Sun Road | Bozzio, Levin, Stevens | Black Light Syndrome | Rock |
| 5. | Astral Traveller | Yes | Time And A Word | Rock |
| 6. | Red Sleep | David Torn/Mick Karn/Terry Bozzio | Polytown | Rock |
| 7. | Hell Hole | Spinal Tap | This is Spinal Tap | Soundtrack |
| 8. | Beauty of a Dream | Thomas Dolby | Astronauts & Heretics | Alternative & Punk |
| 9. | Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper | Dream Theater | Images And Words | Metal |
| 10. | The Black Page #2 | Frank Zappa | Baby Snakes | Alternative & Punk |
DCI: Dead to me (almost)
(via dci.org) Fans will make the call with 2008 ‘Countdown’ cinema event Drum corps fans will get their chance to “make the call” as they select – and then judge – their favorite performances of the world’s most elite marching music ensembles as part of Drum Corps International’s 2008 spring cinema event, “The Countdown.” Coming [...]
Highly Irresponsible and Untrustworthy
Yet another easy money scam gets by the spam filter…
From: James Campbell <mark.swansonjunior@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: jcampbel22@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:22:08 -0500
Subject: Get Back To Me Urgently
From The Office Of
James Campbell Esq.
William & Associates
Phone: +44-7045719175
Fax: 44-7006-044-244
Email: jcampbel22@gmail.com
My name is James Campbell, the personal attorney to David Williams and I am contacting you in regards to some funds deposited with a bank by my late client Mr. David Williams who is now deceased and leaving no known relatives to claim the fund.
What does this have to do with me?
After a series of search for a reliable person who I can establish in claim of the fund, I contacted you and my contact with you is based on a legitimate arrangement. I am contacting you because I feel I could trust you. The fund in the bank is $9.5million dollars.
I must really be a “reliable person” because I’ve gotten several of these kind of emails.
Due to the importance of this matter, I would appreciate if you can write me back to enable me detail you further about this matter. I do understand that this will sound so skeptical but I assure you that it is legitimate. Please you are not compelled to proceed with me because I require someone that is highly responsible and trust worthy.
How exactly would someone who would get involved with such an obvious scam be considered highly responsible and trust worthy?
I will not release every information regarding this matter until I hear back from you.
Then if I am satisfied, I will detail you with every information regarding this transaction and also give you more information about myself to enable you have an idea of the person that you are dealing with. We shall negotiation the percentage split during our future correspondence.
We shall negotiation the percentage split during our future correspondence — How about – me: 100%, you 0%.
I await your immediate response.
You may wait…
Best regards,
James Campbell (Esq.)
Who the fsck is Mark Swanson (mark.swansonjunior@yahoo.com)? Mr. Campbell never mentions he sent this email from Nigeria…
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