Deliver Us From Swedish Furniture

This article made me chuckle to myself. As someone who has the ability to attract only those women that my friends affectionately call ‘nutters’ the idea of having a ‘grown-up’ sorting things out for me is actually getting to be appealing. I remember a few years ago a friend of mine from university asked his parents to arrange a marriage for him. At the time I was totally amazed as he had spent his entire time running around after blondes and now here he was asking his parents to find him someone from back in Mauritius. When I asked him he confessed “I’m just fed up with all this relationship crap. I just want one that is…you know?” “Ah yeah, yeah, I know” I said in reply, but I must admit that back then I didn’t have a clue what he was on about. However, after another false start of a relationship and another tick added onto my cynicism chart, I am now really getting to understand what he meant.

In the article they mention that the western approach to letting kids get on with sorting out their own relationships as opposed to other cultures where the parents are involved in ‘approving’ the relationship. I must admit, this is still not something I would be too happy with, I mean I can’t even agree with my parents about my choice of car and I know full well they have been less than happy with the girlfriends of mine they have met….although it must be said they probably have a point….about the girlfriends, not the cars!! Still somehow the idea of having a completely data driven approach does appeal to me. The reason? Well firstly, Read the rest of this entry »

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…and it obviously works, you can tell as I am about to link to it right about here….very funny though!

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According to this article, banner ads distributed from heavy-weight online advertising company DoubleClick have been inadvertantly spreading malware. The code was wrapped up cunningly into the adverts themselves, actually buried in the Flash. Once loaded it diverts the user away from the site they were looking at to tell them it’s doing a virus check and you need to install software. If you hit the ‘cancel’ button, it simply restarts the process and asks you to install it again. Read the rest of this entry »

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