Charles on… anything that comes along

Logged on to collect my email on the home dialup.

More than a thousand messages. Not spam; I get an email every time a spammer attempts to post junk here in the comments posting to their online poker (haha, see how ya like that, spammers) sites. It tells me the IP where the attempted spam came from.

This afternoon I sent over a list to my web administrator blocking pretty much all the rest of the world apart from Europe, the US, and certain bits of Australia and New Zealand. (Plus someone in Singapore.) I’ve really got to hope that he hasn’t implemented it yet.

Phew. Looking at the IPs of the messages, he hasn’t. But um, those people worrying about DDOSing spammers? Excuse me, this costs money serving their pointless attempts to spam. They are parasites. How should we treat parasites? How does a doctor? You make life intolerable for them.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• Sometimes you forget that there are clueless spammers too (18 January 2005; score: 63.31%)
• The wrong way to defend against comment spam (14 December 2004; score: 46.13%)
• ISP Prime and Phantographics - fraudsters or just incompetent? (21 May 2005; score: 42.15%)

Guess what sort of company paid for the survey in this press release: New research from XXX reveals that digital cameras are top of Brits’ Christmas lists this year. When asked which technology items they would most like to receive this season, almost one fifth (19%) of the people polled admit that unwrapping the latest in digital photography and printing will put a smile on their face..

Yes - Kodak. Remarkably though it says the figures from its survey do bear it out:

So what do Brits really want for Christmas 2004?
1. Digital cameras and home photo printers - 19%
2. TV / DVD players e.g. portable DVD players – 18%
3. Kitchen gadgets e.g. digital scales and coffee machines– 15%
4. MP3 or other music players – 14%
5. Computers and accessories e.g. scanners – 14%

These must be some techno-wizzy Brits out there. Interesting how “3G mobile phone” isn’t up there…

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• How do you stop Nicole Kidman being famous? If Sony et al can answer that, they can beat the iPod (21 September 2005; score: 45.09%)
• Michael Dell re Blu-Ray, and disable those iPod nano scratches! (4 October 2005; score: 44.52%)