contact

rashbre central has a rather erratic range of posts and topics which should deter anyone who wants to settle into a single theme. So its quite pleasing on the infrequent moments of browsing back through the tracker log to spot a familiar visitor from the past, even if they flit briefly past without leaving a comment. rashbre central says "hail fellow, well met" to such welcome travellers.

There's been a similar effect on email over the last few days. Outlook crashed with a horrible 81050014 error and in the process deleted all of my mobile phone contacts. I've recovered, but in the process, some long term acquaintances have made contact again.

Wordless Wednesday

the rain that broke the webcam

1008

oops. I passed 1,000 posts without realizing it. This is number 1008.

So I looked up 1008 A.D. and found the Leningrad Codex and also the year of the "The Tale of Genji" about the son of an emperor of Japan.

The tale was a lengthy psycho-drama in which Genji is exiled from court, goes adventuring, then through political intrigue eventually works his way back. There's a lot more that a one sentence summary of a complex set of stories can't relay and the tale is quite a well known in some parts of the world.

Unlike the Leningrad Codex, although the codex is reputedly the most common source of translation for the New Testament.

Harry Potter ending

Probably a hoax? Some things are insecure. I have not changed the wording.


From: go harry
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:23:45 +0800
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* Harry Potter 0day
*
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Dear my brothers,

Voldemort killed Hermione. Yes, that's true. And we knew that 2 days ago.

This is the end of the not yet published (someone could call that 0day) book

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

At the end of the story Hagrid was killed by Snape in the attempt of ambush Hermione and Ron.
Ron and Hermione flees in privet drive but Voldermort, surprising them, engaged a magical duel with Ron and Hermione.

Voldemort attacked trough the imperius curse and Hermione, to protect the life of Ron fight hardly for more than 6 pages and then finally die.
(boring, very boring... it's always the same story!)

Then, to make a long story short, Harry came up, killed all the bad guys and Hogwarts against became a good place to stay and have fun.

Ah, i missed one important information about Draco Malfoy, he started to create Horcrux (for fun and profit!).
The end.
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Yes, we did it.
We did it by following the precious words of the great Pope Benedict XVI when he still was Cardinal Josepth Ratzinger.
He explained why Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith.

So we make this spoiler to make reading of the upcoming book useless and boring.

The attack strategy was the easiest one.
The usual milw0rm downloaded exploit delivered by email/click-on-the-link/open-browser/click-on-this-animated-icon/back-connect to some employee of Bloomsbury Publishing, the company that's behind the Harry crap.

It's amazing to see how much people inside the company have copies and drafts of this book.
Curiosity killed the cat.

Who kill curiosity?

To protect you and your families

God bless you

Gabriel


So do we believe this, or not?

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Glastonbury Stage Live WebCam

UPDATE: Above picture is 2008
I've noticed a few 2008 Glastonbury hits coming to this 2007 post, so I've added the latest picture. Click it to go to the latest rashbre central entry... and below, for comparison, is the 2007 webcam picture just before the camera broke in the rain.

Another UK webcam moment; here's the Glastonbury main stage being assembled for the concerts which start in a few days.

Friend Christina will be heading along to the concert and is already packing tents and wellington boots.

UPDATE: the webcam broke with the rain.

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More monuments

After the glory of Stonehenge a couple of days ago and the whimsical banksy interpretation, I thought I'd keep an eye open for other interesting monuments.

What could be finer than this one, spied atop a multi-story car park? There's even a special set of steps inside it to be able to climb to the top, although they were chained off on Saturday when I was visiting.

Live London

Here's a view of some areas of London, mainly areas more well-known to tourists.

Recent news reports say that the UK is the most heavily monitored country in Europe with cameras, so I thought I'd hook into a few to see what I could piece together - and the updates are 'live' or 'nearly live'

This was quite easy and I hope gives a flavour of today in London - right now.

Come back later for another and different peek!


Piccadilly Circus

Whitehall and Parliament Square

Oxford Circus

Chelsea Bridge Road

Centrepoint and St Giles Circus

Westminster

Hyde Park Corner

Kensington High Street

Marble Arch

Vauxhall Bridge Road

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monumental

The altar stone at Stonehenge, installed around 2,600 BC, is a six ton slab of sandstone brought by means unknown from Wales to Salisbury plain. rashbre central uses this as its icon at the top of the blog. The central monument in Banksy's latest installation is a replica of the ancient monument built on the site of the forthcoming Glastonbury festival.

Its made of a portable toilet that has been sawed in half and sunk into the Somerset field.

The Guardian today shows a druidic figure standing atop the monument, in tribute to the summer solstice on June 21, the first evening of the festival.

Banksy himself has no illusions about the sanctity of his work, however: "A lot of monuments are a bit rubbish," he said, "but this really is a pile of crap.

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stepping out

London again today and part of the time taking refuge in a wifi zone away from the crowds.

Starbucks is okay up to a point but it can be difficult to spread out papers and sometimes even hard to find a seat. So today I was in this discreet venue, sitting in a moderately large room with other business folk who also wanted a desk and fast network connections.

Californian quarters, maybe...but the Eye?

I noticed today and snapped the London Eye's makeover. This time its showing a large picture of "the Silver Surfer" in its middle, which rotates with the Eye. For some reason I think of "silver surfer" as a demographic of internet user rather than an exiled amoral super being.

The last noteworthy makeover was for red nose day and the Eye wore a red nose and also had one of the pods painted red. I'm less sure about the current change; if the reason related to charity fundraising (Red Nose day), London, the Olympics or something similarly noteworthy, then absolutely change the Eye.

But for a film promotion?

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early breakfast


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windows safari

As regular readers will know, rashbre central is made on a a Mac. And most blogs rashbre central browse are also browsed on a mac, using Safari, the Apple OS X browser.

Well, the interesting news is that Safari is now also available for a PC!

A simple download allows PC users of most types to try the Safari interface, which Apple claims is the fastest browser running on Windows according to the iBench tests.

Safari 3 properly emerges with OS X's next release (Leopard) and features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. Check out Safari 3 public beta as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. It looks like the mac version except for the missing top right coloured clickies and an ominous 'bug button' on the top bar.

When Apple finally introduce Leopard (in October), it is claimed to have over 300 new features. This includes a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks; an updated Finder and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs;

There's Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which allow users to communicate even more creatively.

And running Safari on Windows is a very odd sensation...