Salam Pax's new column

12 Jun 2003

The Guardian is now publishing a column by Salam Pax. Excellent stuff

“Vacancies: President needed - fluent in English, will have limited powers only. Generous bonuses.” This appeared on the first page of the Ahrar newspaper. Another new weekly. Newspapers are coming out of our ears these days. There are two questions which no one can answer: how many political parties are there now in Iraq? And how many newspapers are printed weekly?” Most of these papers are just two or four pages of party propaganda, no license or hassle. Just go print. I am thinking of getting my own: “Pax News - all the rumours, all the time”.

Steve, the king of evil

12 Jun 2003

[12:10:20] Steve: u get the martix game yet
[12:10:32] icepick: no... you are the 2nd person to ask tho
[12:10:36] icepick: must be good
[12:10:54] Steve: I played it the other day @ walmart
[12:10:56] Steve: hah
[12:11:06] Steve: all these kids were waiting to play.
[12:11:13] Steve: I just kept playing
[12:11:24] Steve: "Mommy he wont let me play"
[12:12:59] Steve: the sales guy asked if I would let the kids play. I asked the parents there
if they were going to buy a game for the kids. they said no. I said, I probably will not leave
here w/o buying a game. That shut the salesman up.
[12:13:18] Steve: please the customer....
[12:13:25] icepick: so ... you didn't get it did you, you bastard
[12:13:31] Steve: nope
[12:13:32] Steve: hehe
[12:13:46] icepick: I crown you the king of evil for the day
[12:13:48] Steve: I don't even have a ps2

Charming spam

12 May 2003

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WILL KEEP RECEIVING THIS SECURITY ALERT EMAIL EVERY DAY.

So how many people do you think went to the site before someone did this:

myers@numbers:~$ dig www.windowsupdatenow.com
[...]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
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Profit and the cost of profit

02 May 2003

PNG gov’t mandated monopoly phone co. PNG Telikom pulled in a 34 million kina profit. Imagine if they spent that money connecting up the country with wireless internet, and stopped charging their own schools K12,000 a month for a 64k/Bs line.

TV from the Middle East