The clock in the left margin is (was?) powered by clocklink.com, which seems to be having some troubles today:
Unable to request URL from host www.clocklink.com:80: tried all of the host's addresses:
1. www.clocklink.com/216.230.241.101: Connection refused
2. www.clocklink.com/216.230.241.102: Connection refused
I hope it's temporary.
Open Office 2.3, latest version, released this week.
Ventus by Karl Schroeder a novel, released under a Creative Commons license.
Reprinted without comment: Ananova – Belgium up for sale on eBay
Internet auction site eBay has removed an unusual lot – the country of Belgium.
Bidding had reached 10 million euro before eBay withdrew the spoof sale, reports GVA.
It was put up for sale by former journalist Gerrit Six who wanted to protest that Belgium still had no government, 100 days after its elections.
The advert said: “Belgium a kingdom in three parts. Possible to buy it as a whole, but not advisable.
“Possible the three parts separately but beware of the public debt of 300 million euro.”
Bidding started at one euro and reached 10 million euro after 26 bids before eBay removed it from the site.
Actually, I can't resist one comment: it would have been fun to write the disclaimers, warranties and representations if it were an actual sale…
There is only one company I deal with regularly that has lied to me more often than my DSL provider, and that is my bank. I am gradually writing about my latest bank saga, but that's for another day.
The new modem was promised for Saturday. They swore up and down that they do Saturday delivery. Since the last time a modem died it also died on a Thursday and I had to wait until Monday, I didn't believe them, except I sort of did, because I wanted to.
But it was a lie.
The modem arrived today, not Saturday (and I only just got home and haven't the energy to try to install it). But that's not all. The nice phone person promised — promised! — that it would be the same Westell brand model I had before, assuring me that of their modems it was the best. The box has a Netopia modem in it.
To round out the story, the old modem has decided it liked its rest and is working again.
The warranty replacement requires me to send back my old modem, so I can't just keep the new one as a spare.
The DSL modem on my home network died yesterday evening.
No postings until it gets replaced.
I know we don't expect much from spammers, even the pump & dump crowd, but surely this email I got today is a new low?
09/11/2007 – Traded over 4 million shares with a 100% INCREASE
09/12/2007 – Traded over 6 million shares with another HUGE INCREASETOMORROW THIS STOCK IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE WHAT IT HAS DONE IN THE PAST 2 DAYS! GET IN ON IT NOW WHILE THE PRICE IS LOW! FRESHLY RELEASED PRESS RELEASE!
Current: $.02
Expected: $.57
Kinda self-defeating, isn't it? Or can you really have listed prices above zero but under one cent?
Jotwell Blenderlaw