The person who wrote the piece below has asked to be credited for it, as is her right. Her name is: Marcia van der Beek and her e-mail address is clog@dutchbint.org.
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My mouth must stay firmly shut…
The thing I think I dislike about work in general is the way that one is forced to censor what one wants to say if you are saying it in the public arena. If I have problems at work, if I disagree with a decision, if I decide to look for another job, I have to keep my mouth very firmly shut. It’s very aggravating.
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A brilliant film to avoid…
I wrote an epinion about Requiem for a Dream. The review in a line? “This is a brilliantly made, visually stunning, well-performed piece of perfect cinema, that if you have any sense of self-preservation you will NEVER, EVER go and see.”
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The odd item out among security titles…
Here’s a new game for you. This one is called “What Kind of Person Buys That”. I was wandering through Amazon.co.uk today, and I stumbled upon a book called Hacking Exposed. Apparently people who buy Pixies albums are interested in hacking. But then I thought to myself, “I wonder what people who buy Hacking Exposed are interested in?” So I clicked and I had a look. Here is a list:
- Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts’ Handbook; Stephen Northcutt
- The Hacker’s Handbook; Dr K.
- Information Warfare and Security; Dorothy E. Denning
- Hackers (1995); Jonny Lee Miller(Primary Contributor), et al
- Better Sex Series – Better Oral Sex Techniques
So now we know…
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Not a real man. Not a real poof.
OK so it’s a standard conversation. You’re out with women and you’re chatting away about someone who’s just fucked them over in some way and they say things like, “All Men are pointless”, or “I’ve never met a man who didn’t like football”. And then you look a little perturbed and say, “Well I’m a man, and I’m not pointless and I don’t like football”, and then they look at you in a slightly conspiratorial / slightly pitying fashion and say, “Well straight men – you know what I mean”. They might as well actually say “proper” men.
OK so it’s a standard conversation. You’re out with women and you’re chatting away about someone who’s just fucked them over in some way and they say things like, “I wish straight men could be more like gay men – you know, cultured, tidy, good cooks that never belch.” And then you look a little perturbed and say, “Well I’m a gay man, and I belch and am a mess and eat pizza and watch bad television”, and then they sit there in a slightly embarrassed / slightly appalled way and say, “Well, other gay men. You know what I mean.” They might as well say “proper” poofs.
There’s a website called Guyville and its tagline is, “Where Men Can Be Guys” – but really it’s all about birds and sports and gadgets and shagging. It’s a bit sad really.
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This is why Matt Webb must die…
Grrrr. Matt is too talented. I hate Matt. I wish Matt would die rather than knock up really cool little natty links pages in the middle of the night on a whim, when it takes me months to find the time to put together anything of any use at all. Die Matt, Die. This is why Matt must die: inconnected links page.
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On mucking around in Dirk…
Do this immediately if you are a weblogger yourself: Go to Interconnected.org [DIRK] and do a search for weblog. Do this particularly if you happen to run: megnut.com, notsosoft.com, Captainfez.com, Blogger.com, Interconnected.org/home, Evhead.com, Extenuating Circumstances, camworld.com or riothero.com. Someone’s been in there playing around a bit. I say we give them a hand!
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On astounding myself with evil…
Sometimes – just sometimes – I do something so unbearably evil that I astound even myself: You Know Who You Are!
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First steal underpants, then profit…
The immortal Meg has an article published today in the Observer on the TV drama Attachments (which I have managed to completely not see as yet). In it she writes:
[Attachments: Are you Attached?]
The business model for seethru.co.uk is laughable, too, echoing the underpants-stealing gnomes from a classic episode of South Park:1. Steal underpants
2. ???
3. Profit!
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On intriguing software behind a password…
So I’m wandering around Chez Andy, thinking how nice and orange everything is, when I see this white blotch with “Hello I use Organizine, the wave of the future”. This looks really interesting, so I think to myself, I’m going to go to their site organizine.com and see if it might be suitable for what I want to do with barbelith.com and filmsoho.com (my other recent acquisition which is not quite functional yet). But when I go, I get confronted with a password protection screen and can’t go any further. So now I’m intrigued, frustrated and need more information.