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I would just like to point out that if you have added me to your "friends" list and I have not reciprocated, or you've come here unattended and wondered if I have written things you can't see, that it's not worth worrying about. All this is transitory, and you should treat it as such.

Also, how else am I going to bitch about you to my "friends"?

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Of course, maybe I am writing stuff you can't see. And it's about you. And wow, it's really harsh. Er, except for 2wanda, for obvious reasons.

welcome to the intarweb

My DSL connection got its first hostile this morning.

A nimda attack.

No, seriously. There are nimrods out there at the moment who are so slack about their machines that they're still vulnerable to nimda. GRAFIEK010.grafiekas.nl, to be specific.

IFPI blames everyone else for declining CD sales

Piracy! Economics! Videos! DVDs!
Guys, how about "We're releasing too much crap"? Also a quote from Jay Berman:

I think the long-term secular decline has just about come to a conclusion.

"secular decline"? Did the clergy not get on the filesharing bandwagon with the rest of us or something? (actually, I note from the dictionary definiton that the word can also mean, simultaneously,

• once per century/age
• existing through a century/age
• long-term indefinite duration.

Which is my "something new" learned for the day.)

monopoly mating

I can't decide if cheap MLB for Windows Users is a monopoly abuse or simply Marketing Department A not talking to Marketing Department B. The fact that Microsoft is aware of the, er, abuse would suggest that at this point it's the former, even if it started out as the latter.

one more, and then back to work

Last night, the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, admitted that US forces are encountering serious problems in Iraq, but stressed that insurgents were relatively few in number.

Hey Don. How come these "relatively few in number" insurgents are kicking your ass all over Najaf? Surely the whole Iraq situation isn't turning into, say, another Afghanistan (a glorious victory!) or Vietnam? Write back!
Love,
Waider