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Here we go again!

I got another winning notice from an international lottery corporation ("Corporate Foundations Lottery International"), claiming I've won million dollars. The lottery was allegedly promoted and sponsored by Bill Gates.

This time I'm supposed to contact "fiducial agent" Mr. Bright Martins. My friend Jooseppi did so, immediately. This time without any ticket numbers or anything - let's see if they care. I doubt they do.


I haven't heard anything from Dr. Richmond Berkly, by the way. Perhaps his feelings were hurt by the nasty pictures I sent to him.

29.10.2003 klo 11:53 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

New NetHack

A new version of NetHack (3.4.2) is out. No great changes, as you can see from the version number, but several bugfixes. Probably nothing that critical, but I guess updating is a good idea.

You should also check out noeGNUd, OpenGL based 3d graphics engine for NetHack.

Few interesting screenshots: 3d ascii!, 3d graphics.


I'm still downloading it, I'll tell you later what I think about it.

23.10.2003 klo 09:14 | Comments 2 comment(s) | TrackBack (0)

Lottery fraud, part II

Well, of course Dr. Richmond didn't mind when someone else wanted to claim my lottery prize. That's pretty obvious. He replied pretty fast. That's what he wanted:

"I write to notify you that you are one of our lucky winners in our fortune lottery programs,the name attach to your email address was selected through computer ballot system,kindly scan or write your identifcation like working I.D student I.D,drivers licence or international passport through my email for more verifications,and also to avoid double claims of funds,delays,and complications in our program."


Too bad my friend Jooseppi (born yesterday) has no ID whatsoever. That didn't stop me from sending Dr. Richmond Jooseppi's pass port scan and driver's license scan.

15.10.2003 klo 17:30 | Comments 1 comment(s) | TrackBack (0)

Lottery fraud

I have won 415,810 euros in a lottery. Which is quite neat, because I don't even remember participating in one. But oops - according to the e-mail I got, I'm not supposed to tell anyone. I'll have to contact Dr. Richmond Berkly (he's a doctor, so it must be really important) to get the money.

Let's see. Company that handles millions of euros doesn't have proper e-mail addresses - all free mail addresses from who knows where. Google search on the company name brings up list of Nigerian scam companies. Hmm-hmm... this one's tricky.

Well, let's see what they say when an imaginary lottery winner replies to them!

14.10.2003 klo 17:56 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Choosing Linux distribution

I'm probably installing Linux on my old computer at some point. I'm now pondering about selecting the distribution to use. Red Hat or Debian or something completely different? Opinions are welcome, as are pointers to interesting and useful articles about the issue.


Red Hat feels like a safer selection, with more support and easier use. In the other hand, Debian has some attracting points (mostly philosophical) too.

14.10.2003 klo 11:44 | Comments 4 comment(s) | TrackBack (0)

Birthday

I'm 23 now (actually, I've been 23 since Friday - it's just taken me a while to get used to the fact). I'm glad to be back in a prime number age - reaching next one will take a while.

14.10.2003 klo 09:07 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Bizarre spam

(See the same in Finnish)

I got this surreal spam message:

of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother To that I owed my stalking by the Leopard-man, on the night of my arrival.

There was a HTML part, which probably had something less absurd, but this part was all I saw with my pine. The first line is from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the second line is from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells.

Talk about bizarre!

10.10.2003 klo 17:00 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)

Dogville

We went to see Dogville, the latest movie from Lars von Trier on Saturday. I've been hugely impressed by just about everything von Trier has made and Dogville was no exception.

The most interesting part of it is the way it's done. Von Trier seems to love tricks. This time the catch was the location. Instead of finding a suitable town, he drew it. He got a huge warehouse, where he drew the outlines of the town. There's an outline of a strange blob on the ground and an explanation "Gooseberry bushes". Neat.

Actually, it worked really well. There were enough props to make it believable. Everything there was was used at some time during the movie. The rest of it - the unnecessary bits - were left out. It was very strange, but I got used to it soon. At the same time it help to generalize the events - this could've happened anywhere.

The movie was, indeed, about the human nature. How does a town react, when a strange and perhaps dangerous woman appears? How did they accept her? What were the conditions? It ended up pretty ugly, but that's to be expected from the torturer of innocent women (see Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark for other examples). The ending left me satisfied, but ashamed of being satisfied at such ending.


It was an unpleasant movie, but in a purifying sense.

6.10.2003 klo 10:40 | Be the first to comment | TrackBack (0)