Well it finally happened. I can’t tell you what it is at the moment because it is not public knowledge yet, but I just thought I had better say that it has happened.
I know I haven’t posted for a while but I started a private diary blog today and have already made 3 posts, so I thought If I was going to post there I had better post here as well.
I am not really sure what to write actually, I am hoping I don’t get confused and start typing my personal stuff on this blog, that would be really embarrasing. Well not really that embarrasing because I do get rather detailed about my personal life on this blog. I am sure my mom loves it because being an introvert means I don’t communicate with the family alot. But this blog is to remedy that, as a recovering introvert I declare war on my fears of talking to people. It doesn’t make it any less difficult mind you but I still declare war on them.
Anyway I am going to sign off now, I am struggling o focus on anything but IT so I am going to go to my private blog now and write lots and lots about IT.
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Can you believe it, as of Friday last week, this planet has held on to me for 3 decades. I thought my 30th birthday would be the same as any other, but it turned out to be a real stressful time. I won’t go into too much detail at the moment but I have hinted in previous posts about the exact thing that was keeping my mind occupied the whole weekend.
I am going to keep this a short one because I am still feeling a bit miff (Sorry, thats a South African word and I don’t an english word which quite describes the feeling adequately.) and don’t really feel like posting but wanted to get my blog updated again.
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My personal opinion is no. First of all these sites are the future of the internet, coined Web 2.0 by those who feel they can name the internet, social engineering sites have exploded in as little time as one year. But what does that have to do with your children? Well take a look at the article from USA Today and see what the opinion of a youth pastor is.
Please parents, take an active role in your child’s online life, because there are some real sickos out there just waiting for your childs personal details.
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Wow if I believed in modern day prophecy I might just call myself a prophet
If you recall my post entitled spam rants about a month ago, you may remember that I mentioned the possibility of hearing from the spammer’s lawyers, well today I received a second legal notice from his lawyers regarding my complaints about the spammer.
I must admit today’s letter was worded a bit better, however it is plain that the legal firm has very little knowledge on the internet. They demanded, and I quote “that [I] contact the administrator of gmail that you used and retract the statements made and post an apology”. Their idea is that I can ask Gmail to recall the email that I sent to the spammer, even though he has already read my mail.
It really annoys me that a company can be allowed to bully a potential client like this. How much does it hurt the company to write a personal “Hey there buddy, I got your details off xyzwebsite.co.za and thought you may be interested in our product. If you are not interested, don’t hassle, you will not receive any further correspondence from us unless you specifically request it.”
Now that is a perfectly legitimate commercial mail. It tells me where they got my details from and does not automatically assume that I am interested in the product, they give me the option to sign up or ignore this once off mail. Instead I get this mail from a spammer, assuming that I am definitely interested in his product and only gives me a link to click to unsubscribe. Everyone knows that 90% of the unsubscribe links simply confirm the address as a “hot address”, in other words, a valid email address checked by a real person, and the spammer sends more mail to that address and possibly sells the list to other spammers. Now I am not saying that this particular spammer that I am talking about falls within that 90%, he may very well fall within the 10% who has a legitimate unsubscribe process, but I need to ask myself, do I really want to take that chance? I have a 1 to 9 ratio of success, so the odds really are not in my favour.
Therefore I decided to take the legal route, to challenge the spammer according to the South African Electronic Communications and Transmissions act. He simply responds that I am giving his business a bad name by doing this, and threatens to sue me if I lay criminal charges against him.
Well I guess we are going to see what happens, I am going to print off all his mails including the headers, and go and open a docket with the police tomorrow. That docket will then be escalated to the Commercial Crimes Unit and said spammer will receive a calling card from a detective whose job it is to evaluate the conduct of the business activities of the spammer, and hopefully he receives his rightful sentence.
As a South African I stand against spam, and I call everyone, South African or not, to stand with me. If you have any legal qualifications in this regard, I invite you to contact me by commenting on this post and I will send you my contact details. I would like to get some advice on where I stand with this issue.
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Well the world cup champions, the South African Springboks, made it back to SA and bought with them a rather shiny thing called the World Cup trophy. Many people hung around the airport for a glimpse of them arriving, even one of our local pastors (pictured below). For full video footage click on through to CNN.
To cheer those up who are not Springbok fans, (especially those who supported the English ), here is a pretty funny video. I wouldn’t base your End Times Theology on it, but it is well done and pretty funny.
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So I was preparing for Bible study the other night, trying to find some free gospel tract ice breakers, and I stumbled on a site where the guy had a video of himself showing all his tracts that are for sale. So I watched the video and it kinda looked like a You Tube video but it said GodTube in the corner. I thought that’s interesting and typed in www.GodTube.com and lo’ and behold there was a Christian video host, equivalent (albeit a bit buggy on the interface) to You Tube.
So here is my first embeded God Tube video, check it out
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