Just as I was reading section 3 (re. Twitter) of this 301 Mil Int btln assessment on various mobile internet technologies - as put into effect by notorious Terrorists A, B and C - this email from myself with the subject line "We have all data on you" dropped into one of the inboxes. Of course I clicked on it:
From: "Lazy"@yahoo.com
To: "Lazy"@yahoo.com
Re: We have all data on you
Saturday, 8 November, 2008 4:18 PM
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On the same theme, from the packet manager description of the Linux desktop game StepBill:
Ever get the feeling that nothing is going right? You're a sysadmin, and someone's trying to destroy your computers. The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system.
[Homepage: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/stepbill/]
