An Apple customer was shocked, shocked, when he bought a Macbook from the London Apple Store for his 11-year old daughter, and the desktop was full of pornographic JPGs.

His friend, a Consumerist tipster in good standing, told us all about it over IM, inside… — BEN POPKEN

“Mommy, why do the keys stick?” — MEGHANN MARCO

RKH: me mate just bought a “refreshed” Macbook from the Apple Store here in London, turned it on once he got home and found porn on the desktop
fakeout: how refreshing!
RKH: apple sells “refreshed” machines at a 15% discount
fakeout: It’s supposed to be clean of everything I assume, including porn
fakeout: What kind of porn was it?
RKH: didn’t say
fakeout: how much porn?
RKH: just said there was a “desktop full of JPGs”
fakeout: How does he feel about it?
RKH: he’s pretty shocked, he bought it for his 11-year old daughtre
RKH: daughter
fakeout: Is he going to complain?
RKH: he filed a complaint with the OfCom ombudsman
RKH: and he’s going to call his MP tomorrow
fakeout: MP?
RKH: member of Parliament
fakeout: Not going to talk to Apple?
RKH: OFCOM will handle that part
RKH: a government agency tends to have more power than individual consumers
fakeout: That’s cool they will go to bat for him
RKH: they go to bat for anyone who complains about a company
fakeout: We should get one of those over here
RKH: Carphone Warehouse got a L5mil fine for overcharging VAT on purchases a few years ago.
fakeout: it would be great to get a photo of the desktop with the jpgs on it
RKH: he reformatted the drive and reinstalled OS X from his Tiger CD

Via :: Consumerist.com

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Recien llego a casa de la cena que armo CH para mi cumpleaños, la verdad que comimos, bebimos y nos reinos mucho.
Ademas recibi unos regalos increibles.
Ahora que tengo la “Edad de Cristo” tengo que comportarme como todo un adulto.

I just came back from my birthday dinner organized by CH, we drank, we ate and we laughed a lot.
Also I got incredible gifts
Now that I have the “age of Christ” I have to behave like an adult.

I am glad you decided to go to a classical music concert instead of drinking beer at home and watching the game on tv, or going to play darts with your buddies, but listen:

Thanks a bunch.

No se si les pasa a ustedes tambien, pero cada vez que voy al cine o a un concierto de musica clasica o a cualquier lugar donde haya que hacer silencio, siempre hay multiples boludos que tosen.

Puede ser que todas las personas enfermas siempre tienen que aparecen en lugares donde el silencio es lo unico que se pide? o sera que el hecho de que haya que mantener el silencio es too much para las mentes atormentadas de algunos y la tos es una forma de estallar?

Recoil - Incubus

Every time I think I’m gonna wake up
back in the jungle
Every minute I stay in this room
I get weaker
Each time I looked around
the walls moved in a little tighter

I’ve never seen a man so broken up
ripped apart
They say my name is death
I’ve never seen a man so broken up
ripped apart
But I’m alive, I am alive
I’ve never seen a man so broken up
ripped apart
I am born ten thousand times
I’ve never seen a man so broken up
ripped apart
Ten thousand ways, I’m alive

I am the shadow
I am the evening come
I am your greatest fear
Your greatest love

Born in ten thousand ways
for each and every day
I am alive

I am the victim of lying morality
and so, I am beyond caring
I am born ten thousand times
in ten thousand ways
My head swims in spoilt mothers milk
I am too alive
There are too many of me,
too many to kill
They’re in my head
They know my name
My name is death but I am alive,
I am alive

Web :: http://www.recoil.co.uk
MySpace :: http://www.myspace.com/recoil

Alan Wilder is working in the new Recoil album to be released in 2007, but let’s hear it from Alan himself.

Recoil is the musical venture of ex-Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder, for which he writes the music and invites various guest musicians to write the accompanying lyrics and perform them on the record. The vocal parts are either sung, or performed as spoken word pieces.

The sound of Recoil is - while also heavily electronic - quite different from the Depeche Mode sound. The lyrics often deal with the dark side of human nature.

Recoil’s first single was a cover of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s “Faith Healer”, with Douglas McCarthy from Nitzer Ebb on vocals, who would later reappear for two songs on the Unsound Methods album including one single from that album.

Web :: http://www.leviweaver.co.uk
MySpace :: http://www.myspace.com/leviweaver

The first time I heard from him was at the Imogen Heap’s concert inToronto and I have to admit when I saw him performing live as an opening act I was more than impressed.
After some small research I found his MySpace, which included 3 songs for downloading: which drink (my favorite), del cielo (my second favorite) and good medicine.

Trying to find more about him and his music I discovered this interview in the website crossrhythms.co.uk

Levi Weaver is a singer/songwriter not a manufacturer of jeans. This American songsmith is currently living in the West Midlands where he is enrapturing all who get to hear his stunning EP ‘Civil War Between My Heart And Mind’. Tony Cummings pitched a few short questions at him. Here they are with Levi’s somewhat longer answers.

Tony: So Levi, make with the life history.

Levi: It was absolutely great growing up with my family - my dad was an ordained missionary to the rodeo cowboys, so we would all pile into a camper on the back of a pickup truck and just go from rodeo to rodeo, church to church. I mean, we had a home in Texas, but every summer we would leave around the end of May/first of June, and we wouldn’t get back home until like October. The grass would be all grown up, and it was this huge ordeal to get the place looking liveable again. Everyone at the various churches used to be just amazed, like: ‘Wow, how do you do that? You have a family of five living in a camper?’ But to us, it was just normal. If you’re raised from birth living like that, you don’t realise just how abnormal it must seem to everyone.
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I have been acting like paparazzi since I got my new camera.
My main target (or victim, depends of what you understand for target) have been my wife.

Here you can see some pictures that I have been taking in order to improve my portrait skills

Set 1
Set 2
Set 3

Picture taken with DSLR Olympus Evolt E-300

Wikipedia :: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi’an

Xi’an cuisine has a good, hearty style that should never let you leave the table hungry. Noodles and dumplings are the staples of the local food and these are almost always filling and warming.

Yangrou Paomo is a tasty Xi’an specialty that consists of a mutton soup served with wheat flour flat bread. The hard bread is broken up and added to the soup. Then the mixture is eaten along with pickled garlic cloves.

Xi’an’s food is extensive. It is the representative of food of Northwestern China. The most well known local food is the Xi’anese snack, a traditional food of the Hui people. Hui-style snacks feature beef and mutton because the Hui people do not eat pork. Baked beef and mutton, buns with beef, mutton pancake and mutton soup are some of the tasty Hui dishes one can enjoy in Xi’an.

Perhaps the best place in Toronto, to enjoy Northwestern Chinese food in particular, Xi’an’s cusine is the family restaurant CHINESE TRADITIONAL BUNS (536 Dundas West, at Kensington, 416-299-9011)

M: I knew it was too early to promote you.
James Bond: Well, I understand double-ohs have a very short life expectancy. So your mistake will be short-lived.

Web :: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/site
Rotten Tomatoes :: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/casino_royale
Video OST :: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06ZrvLcZm0

Ayer pude ver la ultima, y a la vez primera de la saga de todas las peliculas de James Bond, Casino Royale, a pesar de que ya lleva mas de una semana en cartel tuve que hacer cola y ademas otras funciones estaban totalmente vendidas y para ser franco ahora entiendo porque, la pelicula es grosa mal, desde las secuencia de accion, pasando por la parte de espionaje, romance y fundamentalmente la parte de poker en el casino.

Esta pelicula es para ver en cine, asi que si sos una de esas personas que esperan al DVD, levanta el culo del sillon y anda al cine mas cercano para poder disfrutar correctamente de Casino Royale.

A Casino Royale de doy 8 puntos.

Yesterday I had the chance to watch the latest and at the same time first in the saga of all the James Bond’s movies, Casino Royale, despite of the fact that it has been released more than a week ago, I had to wait in a long line in order to get a decent seat; To be honest with you, now I know why, the movie is awesome! From the action sequences, espionage, romance and the Poker game everything was great.
This is a movie to be enjoyed in a theater with big screen and big sound so if you are those kinds of person who always want to wait for the DVD release, move you ass from that couch, go to your favorite theater and watch Casino Royal in a proper way.

I give to Casino Royale 8 points

Trampa radial a una novia cornetera y muy puta…

A kernel panic is a message displayed by an operating system upon detecting an internal system error from which it cannot recover; the term is largely specific to Unix and Unix-like systems, as well as the Unix successor Plan 9. The kernel routines that handle panics (in AT&T-derived Unix source code, a routine known as panic()) are generally designed to dump debugging information to either the screen or a specified file and then freeze the computer. The information provided is not always useful to the end user, but can sometimes provide troubleshooting data for a system developer or tech support personnel.

Attempts by the operating system to read an invalid or unpermitted memory address are a common source of kernel panics. A panic may also occur as a result of a hardware failure or a bug in the operating system.

The kernel panic was introduced in an early version of Unix, and demonstrated a major difference between the design philosophies of Unix and its predecessor Multics. Multics developer Tom van Vleck recalls a discussion of this change with Unix developer Dennis Ritchie:

I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, “We left all that stuff out. If there’s an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, ‘Hey, reboot it.’”
The original panic() function was essentially unchanged from V5 to the VAX-based 32V and output only an error message with no other information, then dropped the system into an endless idle loop. As the Unix codebase was enhanced, the panic() function was also enhanced to dump various forms of debugging information to the terminal.

A kernel panic usually takes the form of a text dump to the main screen of the computer, sometimes overwriting any graphical content on the screen. A notable exception is that of later versions of Mac OS X, which generally hide the text dump behind a message to reboot the system; the debugging information is still available as a logfile.

I miss so much the Amiga’s Guru Meditation, at least the computer crashed with games and not in the middle of an important task or in a real production enviroment…
BTW, I don’t remember the last time that my XP PRO Workstation or any of the WINDOWS 2003 Servers I have at work crashed….