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Yesterday I got another one of these:
dear sir,
yesterday some body stolen my cell cell number 9848133384
please search for the same and freeze my account so that
no body can use it
thank you
yours faithfully
kgdeekshituluIt seems that a lot of people in India lose their mobile phones these days and that a lot of people in India think that by emailing me about it that I can do something about it.
I'm just a blogger. I don't have a machine that can cancel mobile SIMs.
I've now uploaded a selection of photos from the Miami Vice party we had on Saturday.
For those who got the invite but didn't come: look what you missed! We even had a live performance gig in the house which was cool. Thank you those of you who did it.
The theme was Miami Vice and like those parties where people dress like the opposite sex, there was actually more options for the guys than the girls. I went for the mint-green t-shirt with extra padded shoulders in a grey jacket with rolled up sleeves.
"Including the $124.2 billion bill, the total cost of the Iraq war may reach $456 billion in September, according to the National Priorities Project, an organization that tracks public spending.
The amount got us wondering: What would $456 billion buy?"
This is an amazing slideshow article made by boston.com about what the Americans could have done instead of spending $456 billion on the Iraq war. Granted, the republicans objective was to go in an exploit the country for oil which they saw as an investment whereas investing in health and life in Africa would be too far fetched for the shortsighted morons in Washington.
Ok. Suppose George and co. would have been successful in Iraq and with that, move in a few lucrative industrial deals for oil and reconstruction. I wonder how many thousands of years it would take to get return on that investment if the input is $456 billion.
Like many other Python fellow geeks on Planet Python I too took the Which Programming Language Are You? quiz. Apparently I'm Prolog.
I've never used Prolog and I barely know how it works or what it's syntax looks like. Well, I guess I'll just erase all my current projects and recode them in Prolog from now on. Unpractical but necessary.
This week we improved MOBi with a neat little feature that makes it possible to decide what the SMS response should be to inbound SMS on your own server.
To test this you need to be UK resident and willing to part with the 25p it costs to receive the response. Send peterbe is NN (where NN is a number, how old you think I am) to 83211 and await a result. I've set up the sub word "is *" to forward all inbound SMS to an address on www.peterbe.com and here on this server I run the following Python Script:
##parameters=sender, message
##
guess = message.split()[-1]
try:
age = int(guess)
except ValueError:
return "That's not a number :-("
if age > 27:
return "That's not it! It's less than that. Try again"
elif age < 27:
return "That's not it! It's more than that. Try again"
return "Wow! You know my age!!"
I think a lot of Python people have seen Peter Novig's beautiful article about How to Write a Spelling Corrector. So have I and couldn't wait to write my own little version of it to fit my needs.
The changes I added were:
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My mum just added a few new figurne heads to here collection on Thuas Trägubbar.
Most of you should be able to recognize Albert Einstein
The other two I think you need to be Swedish to recognize: Tage Danielsson and Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Can you guess what the fattest sandwich is, that Subway sells, out of these?
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I've been using ZYB for a couple of days now. The reason is that since I lost my Palm Treo 650 I've had to use a Sony Ericsson i810w as a replacement which means I can't import my old contacts from Palm Desktop.
ZYB does two things: sync your contacts and sync your calendar between the zyb web app and your phone.
They support loads of different/popular phones (sadly not the Palm Treo) and if your phone is supported you download a little Java app that deals with the synchronization. Now I can add/edit/remove contacts and calendar events using the ZYB web app which is much more convenient than the tiny screen tiny keyboard phone.
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Hmm. Of all the stupid things conservative Christians and other fundamentalists make up, this must be near the top. Apparently, the fact that no new life is created in any jar of peanut butter means that evolution does not happen. WTF? Are you nuts?
If you're still thinking at this point: no, this is not a proof against evolution.
The question why life started in this corner of the universe is still an interesting question, but refuting evolution is naive and plain outright stupid. If you base your morals on arguments and counter arguments for and against things you will pretty sure see an overwhelming dominance of proof for evolution everywhere. The fact that this video was made is quite scary.
Stop the non-sense! Evolution is still here to stay.