RANDOM JOTTINGS 

Ken Meadows

Transact

I am with Transact and my ISP is Netspeed.  Today I looked at the Netspeed site and saw their internet plans, all of which were new to me. I rang them and found that I was on one of their old plans, paying more and getting less.  Wishing to change, the young lady offered to change my plan on the first of July to one which was cheaper and allowed a greater download.

No doubt because of the greater competition most of the older established ISP's will have revised plans.  Check with your ISP.  You might be doing yourself a favour.


Free Knitting Patterns

To get access you have to join TUDOGS, which is a free program site, and well worth while, even if knitting is abhorrent to you.

Knitting About.com

A site for knitting patterns, this one is superb, with a huge range of patterns for every one. The patterns can be printed from off the site and each one is detailed with your wool needs as well as method. Just perfect for all us knitting bees. Some of the patterns like baby caps can be done in a couple of hours, while watching TV, so enjoy. Freeware. Found at:
http://www.tudogs.com/education1.php


From Brian Livingstone

WACKY WEB WEEK - playing for you the Internet's greatest bits

Replicator duplicates gold, now only $250,000 at eBay Quick! You only have three days left to bid on the world's first Gold Replicator before the auction for this valuable fortune-building device ends at eBay. According to the seller's description, the replicator will duplicate any metal placed into it - gold, platinum, etc. - without consuming any raw materials.

Bids start at a mere $250,000 USD. No bids have been received yet, but the canniest bidders are probably just waiting until the last minute to show their hands.

The seller is known as "earthtimetraveler." He previously offered the Real Time Machine in June 2004 for the bargain price of $219. The Gold Replicator is obviously much more advanced, considering the starting bid.

We e-mailed him, asking why he was selling what he says is his only copy of the replicator, instead of simply using it to make all the gold he could ever need. He replied promptly, saying the proceeds would be plowed back into more technology for "genetic dating, time travel, electronic mood adjusters, human happiness research, etc." Boy, that's one busy guy.

Mr. Traveler should probably generate another gold bar to buy himself some new Web graphics. His eBay-hosted photos of bullion  and the device itself are lifted from the first page of Google Images for gold bars and replicator. The latter image is from a Star Trek episode.

Just in case the listing of this brilliant inventor is cruelly suppressed, we're including a link both to the actual eBay page and to our own mirror of it.

For more info, see: eBay Gold Replicator listing / Mirror of eBay listing


From MAX PC

A family in America [where else?] has been ordered to remove the tinfoil cladding covering their house which they claim is helping to prevent radio wave attacks from neighbours. The D'Souza family didn't stop with the outside of the house - their beds are covered with a foil-like material too. The radiation assaults began on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, and have apparently caused a number of health problems.


From PC Answers

Korean teen control
It's the perennial problem for parents of teenagers, how do you keep them under control? You could ground them or you could take away their mobile phone.

A Korean company has found out that the mobile phone is the most prized possession of most 13 to 15 year olds. Many of them said that they would feel helpless if they were deprived of their phone. So the answer is simple, if you need to keep your teenager in line, take away their phone!


From Lockergnome

Employees at Morgan Stanley may think twice before they delete their email, after a judge slapped a $1.45billion judgement on the financial giant because they just hit delete. It seems that during the course of a lawsuit by billionaire Ron Perelman against Morgan Stanley, Perelman's attorneys demanded that Morgan Stanley produce certain relevant emails, and Morgan Stanley's attorneys claimed that they had been deleted.

Oops.

The court was not impressed, and in a move which clearly showed just how unimpressed it was, spanked Morgan Stanley with the $1.45billion judgement in Perelman's favour.

Now this was the spank heard around the world, as companies are suddenly waking up to the realization that they have a legal duty to retain email, not just paper documents. And, indeed, this is not the first time that a delete-happy company has been so spanked. In fact, it's probably more common than you would think, and really that's the point.

If you are in any way responsible for email at your company, you'd be well-advised to make sure that they have a good email retention policy in place. And that's not all. According to the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, "companies need to make sure that they have a clear policy in place about the scope of what their employees may discuss electronically during the course of their employment, not just in email, but in Internet forums such as chat rooms, instant messengers, and Usenet. Each piece of email, every little public remark, is a potential smoking gun, just waiting to indict the company from which the message originated."
Whee!

Aunty's advice is don't put anything in email which you wouldn't want to see in court.


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