Nifty word-cloud toy...
Jonathan Feinberg over at wordle.net has developed a fun toy which generates word-cloud pictures from text (or from a del.icio.us page). Thanks to Adriana for the pointer...
Here's a wordle of my white paper on Identity and Privacy in the Digital Age...
Unsolicited email
Hmm. Interesting... I received a piece of unsolicited email today. It was the kind that rings alarm bells:
1 - it says it's about some kind of financial service;
2 - it includes an attachment;
3 - the link between the subject and the contents seems slightly bogus.
It's from "moneybookers.com", and the subject line reads "Money Laundering Policy - Read Carefully!".
In the body of the email there's a reassuring message which reads as follows:
"For security reasons we have sent you this message as an attachment file. This measure has been adopted to prevent personal information theft and data loss."
Nyuh-hhuh.. 'Course you have... That's the logical way to prevent personal information theft, after all. I'll open the attachment right away. What's the worst that could happen?
The email also gives the company's registered address and UK company number - and sure enough, that matches an entry in the Companies' Register. Their website decribes the payment services they offer for online commerce.
But so what? I have a constructive suggestion for anyone hoping to develop an e-payment services business. If your service is legit, for goodness' sake find a better strategy than marketing it the same way as dodgy viagra!
Very strange.
No voter anonymity in Zimbabwe
It is unlikely to make any difference in the short term, as opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has announced that his party will not contest the head-to-head vote against Robert Mugabe. Mr Tsvangirai's decision come after a concerted period of violent suppression of opposition campaigners and likely opposition voters. Even had a poll taken place, it seems unlikely that it could have been representative of voters' real intentions, as this comment by an MDC organiser indicates:
"Tineyi Munetsi, MDC organising secretary for Chitungwiza, rang me from Mr Tsvangirai's house and I asked him what he thought of the decision to pull out.
"I believe it is the right decision," he answered. "For the last week it was my task to organise polling agents for the rural constituencies, and they are all being targeted.
"There is not a single area we can campaign in, even the townships are closed. And think of how many of our people have been murdered. This is not an election, this is a war, and we will not legitimise it by taking part in what is a farce."
Mr Munetsi also alleged that the MDC had discovered plans for massive ballot-rigging.
"Look here, people are being told that after they vote they have
to write down the serial numbers of their ballot papers so the fake
election monitors can cross-reference them to who they voted for."" Source: BBC News site
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