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I just received a laughable e-mail phishing message: it is written in such bad Portuguese that it is hard to believe that an actual person wrote it – it feels like a very bad automatic translation of some original. It starts with “querido costureiro”, which I presume was the sender’s translation attempt of “dear costumer”. [...]

I use ZScreen for regular desktop snapshots, but it also works fine for in-game captures on some games, Crysis 2 included. But not rFactor. http://code.google.com/p/zscreen/

The 2011 DTM calendar 2011-05-01 : Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg (D) 2011-05-15 : Circuit Park Zandvoort (NL) 2011-06-05 : Red-Bull-Ring Spielberg (A) 2011-06-19 : EuroSpeedway Lausitz (D) 2011-07-03 : Norisring (D) 2011-07-17 : Show event @ Olympic Stadium Munich (D) 2011-08-07 : Nürburgring (D) 2011-09-04 : Brands Hatch (GB) 2011-09-18 : Oschersleben (D) 2011-10-02 : Valencia (E) [...]

It is an old album, but I had never listened it before. Really enjoyable. I suppose it was never produced to lift someone’s spirit, but somehow it is doing it for me. 5 * Downtown Tokyo, Naoki Kenji

Nick Heidfeld’s blog: http://www.nickheidfeld.com/?1000A0A1 Pictures from Gary Paffett: http://plixi.com/6274675 Pictures from Tony Fernandes: http://plixi.com/2113475 Pictures from Noah Everett: http://twitpic.com/photos/noaheverett Pictures from Lotus Renault: http://www.yfrog.com/froggy.php?username=OfficialLRGP Pictures from Ross Westgate: http://twitpic.com/photos/RossWestgate Tubemogul on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tubemogul Tweets from F1 drivers: http://motortweets.com/ Superb racing tech magazine: http://www.racecar-engineering.com/

For some reason, my WordPress based blog was redirecting to itself, in an infinite loop, after upgrading to WordPress 3.1. The solution was to disable the “canonical URL redirection”, by installing this plugin: http://txfx.net/files/wordpress/disable-canonical-redirects.phps To install the plugin, just download the file, copy it to the plugins folder and activate it via the administration panel. [...]

Google still #1 in 2011, according to Nielsen. Facebook ranks #3. http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/top10s/internet.html

Previously I was under the opinion that Image Grabber II (IG2) was the top tool for the job of extracting video thumbnails into a single file: http://arturmarques.com/wordpress/index.php/2011/02/01/creating-a-single-jpg-with-many-snapshots-from-a-video/ Indeed, it was the only program to handle my Canon’s 1080p video files. But I was surprised to find that IG2 fails with my MPEG2 satellite recordings, so [...]

Right now, I am far from being a fan of the relatively new .application installer system. Some applications now distribute their installers not in the usual .exe or .msi formats, but as .application archives that are usually much less configurable and extremely opaque, hiding not only the files that will be sourced for the installation, [...]

This satellite picture, taken at ~10km altitude, shows an amazing array of green circles, each roughly 1km in diameter. Location: 43.49.02N , 112.22.14W