Category: General

Thanks to the assistance of Hetzner Africa and Internet Solutions, as well as other people with whom I am not acquainted, a local company who sent out a mailshot (which I received more than once and therefore constitutes spam) has been reprimanded. Said company, in one of the many emails between Hetzner, myself and theContinue reading Spammer, be gone!

I am retiring one of my email addresses, because of spam. It was not an easy decision to make, and the ramifications could be dramatic if I’ve forgotten to update some mailing list, somewhere. Good bye, randolph@e-llusion.biz.

I read this today on Twitter, and re-tweeting does not give it justice: "I will not sleep until this night eschews the sun in memory of my mother, who toiled and fought for 24 hours to eject the parasitic boarder she had housed for 9 months. And once freed from the burden of childbirth, rejoicedContinue reading Dedication

Following on from yesterday’s rant is a much shorter note, which holds for software, music and video piracy. I’ve just read an article on TechCrunch today about studios delaying the rental of DVDs for 30 days after their release, which is an interesting read in itself. What jumped out at me is this: If youContinue reading Piracy and You

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.) Do you download software and / or music and / or movies and / or television shows without paying for it? Do you know what ACTA is, or aims to be? Do you live in a country where your government wants to check what you’re doing on the Internet?Continue reading Copyright and You

“THIS IS A SYSTEM GENERATED EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO IT To whom it may concern This is a confirmation that Branded Internet Discovery Mail has released a payment for your account. We have enclosed the details below. Date : 2009/11/06 Description on Statement : RANDOLPH POTTER Payment : R 352.00 If you haveContinue reading I got my money back!

This is an email I have just written to discovery [AT] tip-offs.com, when I discovered a fraudulent withdrawal of funds from my bank account yesterday, three days after my account was cancelled (and confirmed in writing). “To whom it may concern. I am a long-time Discovery Health and Discovery Life member. I was until veryContinue reading Branded Internet and Vitality Broadband stole from me

“Greetings You really are a bunch of monkeys there. I was forced to find alternative bandwidth today because you cut me off before the actual end of the month, which is 12 hours from the time I am writing this. This after I asked you in September to cancel my contract on 1 October, butContinue reading My letter to Branded Internet

“Thank you for signing up to give us early feedback on Google Wave. We’re happy to give you access to Google Wave and are enlisting your help to improve the product.” Now I just need to invite someone, otherwise it looks pretty dull.

I wrote some new poems the other night, when I couldn’t sleep. Some of them are super-cheesy. Some of them are shocking. At least one has the F-bomb in it. Check out the “writing” link at the top of the page and click on “poetry” for the juice.