Max's Miscellaneous Musings

My little black dog turns one today!  I'll post some photos over the weekend :D more »

This one is priceless, a) because of the level involved in trying to sell their product, and b) the shocking Penglish (that's Polish English, folks).  They almost had my business though, until they declared their use of Windows NT.  That is sooooooooooo… more »

My new host is pretty good at getting rid of email spam before it ever reaches me.  However, when it comes to comment spam (ie from this blog), it occasionally defeats my antispam tool and reaches me.  Most of the time, the spam in question tries to suc… more »

I love the Runglish (Russian English) in this spam.  See the yellow highlights.   Greatings Mister the Best Man! The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love. Hello Honey! I would like to… more »

This would have to be one of the best spams I've received in ages.  Why in the hell would I want to buy charcoal from overseas?  Unless that charcoal miraculously turns into diamonds, I aint buying. We offer charcoal for BBQ. We select our charcoal fro… more »

Holy shit, it's been a while since I've updated this blog.  Months have passed and I didn't even realise it.  Lots has happened between then and now, and I'm a bit busy to write it all just at the moment... meanwhile, see if you enjoy this new site I've… more »

I just learned about this site called Strava.com.  It's like a lot of other GPS upload/ride mapping sites in that you upload your ride data and it does stuff with it.  But what's different is that it compares your rides a) to each other and b) to other… more »

I just CBF studying today.  It's a beautiful day and I'd rather spend it outside in the hammock reading a good book.  Think I might do that after this fly-by posting. more »

My one or two regular readers will recall that I attended a vSphere 4.1 course last week.  It was pretty full-on, being that I knew close to nothing about the product before attending.  I got a lot out of it.  I've decided this is the way to go, career-… more »

This would have to be one of the funniest YouTubes evah: [video:youtube:uIbkLjjlMV8] more »