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New camera

Our beloved Sony α100 started falling apart and we had to send it in to a repair shop.At the same time, I noticed that a shop in Hong Kong called DigitalRev was selling cameras to the UK at a much lower price than shops based here, so I ordered a 350 to supplement the old camera.It arrived Friday, and we're...

Hvor er Anna?

Anna morede sig vældigt forleden, da vi legede gemmeleg med et stykke køkkenrulle:

Young Bebo users


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Originally uploaded by jozecuervo

Although I’ve got an account on Bebo, I feel like some kind of nearly extinct species there, since most users seem to be between 10 and 12 years old.

As an MP said today:

“My daughter is 12 and she has been on Bebo for at least 18 months and I think every single one of her friends is and spends hours on it. It is universal, way below 13.”

The odd thing is that Bebo officially requires all users to be at least 14, but as far as I can gauge, 14 is the age when youngsters feel too old for Bebo and move to other social networking sites.

Funnily enough, the kids these days clearly know a lot about the dangers of the Internet, so many of them write they’re married so that they don’t attract sexual predators, but it’s normally clear from their profile photos how old they really are.

Worse than normal spam

I normally get tons of spam. That's annoying, but nothing you can't live with with a decent filter.Today, however, I've been inundated with delivery failure notifications.It turns out one evil and twisted spammer has used my email address as the return address on a batch of spam:Subject: *****SPAM***** Drug for erectile dysfunctionFrom: "Helping You" <twid@bibulus.org>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:38:13 +0000To: "Erectile pill" <itpviscouszwo@lefresnesurloire.fr>...Subject: 81% off for hqksenjFrom: "vigara levitar" <twid@bibulus.org>Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:38:32 +0000To: <hqksenj@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp>...Subject: No embarrassmentFrom:...

Early risers

I often wonder why early risers (A-mennesker "A humans", as we call them in Danish) don't understand that the rest of us (B-mennesker "B humans" in Danish) are wired differently, that we haven't just got bad habits.Have a look at what this weirdo suggests: Apparently we should get up several hours early so that we can do stretching in the...
Our new Weber grill
Till now, we've restricted ourselves to disposable barbecues from Lidl, but they are a pain – too small and useless if there's any wind at all.So recently I decided to invest in a proper Weber grill
New photo printer
The last printer we bought was a cheap one from Tesco that I couldn't get to work under Linux and that broke down after a short while.When we visited my parents in Denmark recently, we helped my mum set up...

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