I’ve been recieving spam via Live Messenger and have mostly ignored them to-date. Feeling adventurous today, I decided to click and view one of these sites and noticed that they had a Terms of Use agreement. It’s actually quite a humourous read if you’re interested, so take a look below.
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
DHS Can Detain Your Laptop for No Reason
Aug 02, 2008
The United States’ Department of Homeland Security now has the power to detain a traveler’s laptop indefinitely at the border, without any cause for suspicion. This is frightening, especially since all of my work and personal life is stored inside this machine. Not to mention that I use Linux, which might set off a cyber-terrorist [...]
Beamer, PDFTeX and XeTeX
Jul 16, 2008
I’ve recently started using the beamer class to create slides for my presentation. Up till now, I’ve been using powerdot, and found it more than sufficient. I initially thought beamer to be far more complex than necessary. However, one feature convinced me to switch: PDFTeX and XeTeX support.
Both PDFTeX and XeTeX create a PDF directly [...]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jul 09, 2007
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one weird movie. It’s one of those movies that get you thinking. It’s also one of those movies that doesn’t really make sense until the end. There’s just so much detail packed into it. Definitely recommended if you’re into strange artsy movies with a touch of sci-fi [...]
