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March 13th, 2010Organised Spiritual Warfare
March 4th, 2010The New Apostolic Reformation, the largest religious movement you’ve never heard of, aims to take control of communities through ‘prayer warriors.’
Imagine a religious movement that makes geographic maps of where demons reside and claims among its adherents the Republican Party’s most recent vice presidential nominee and whose leaders have presided over prayer sessions (one aimed at putting the kibosh on health-care reform) with a host of leading GOP figures.
… a religious network of elites drawn from the ranks of business and government throughout the world. But the movement we’re imagining encompasses the humble and the elite alike, supporting a network of “prayer warriors” in all 50 states, within the ranks of the U.S. military, and at the far reaches of the globe — all guided by an entire genre of books, texts, videos and other media.
[Their videos] “demonstrate the taking control of communities and nations through large networks of ‘prayer warriors’ whose spiritual warfare is used to expel and destroy the demons that cause societal ills. Once the territorial demons, witches, and generational curses are removed, the ‘born-again’ Christians in the videos take control of society.”
More Firewall weirdness
February 26th, 2010Ok, not weird, just crap.
This link is blocked: http://www.rotronic.co.uk/content/humidity_feuchte/index.php The resulting page said it was in the “pornography” category.
Out of frustration, I typed in “Dirty Sex Sluts” into Google and selected the first link. Can you guess what happened? I wasn’t blocked! Boom! Full-on porn right there, on my screen, in the middle of the cube-farm!
And yet, I’m told that I can’t have the RDP port opened between internal offices on an intranet because of security concerns. Right.
SAP: GUI fail. Behold, the “Easy Access Menu”
February 24th, 2010
(The funny scrollbar is because this image is composed of 4 screen captures)
Ok, so which one of these options is to record my timesheet?
Serious GUI fail.
Lotus Notes: Wasting screen real estate
February 24th, 2010Screen real estate is precious. If I want to see my calender for the week, on a 1280×800 screen, I expect to be able to see all the appointments for the week.
Lotus Notes somehow manages to not be able to show me more than about the first 10 characters of my appointments, and wastes all sorts of space in the process!
More SAP weirdness
February 11th, 2010Following on from my previous post, which described my first experience with SAP, I have continued to be thoroughly unimpressed with this application so far.
Honestly guys, your GUI is shit.
Right click on the system icon, and you get these options:
Both, by the way, kill the client.
DNS Query Quotas are coming….
February 10th, 2010… but are you really surprised? This blog post from my provider, easyDNS, explains, very simply, why they are needed:
For the vast minority of domains, we’re talking domains that use tens of millions or hundreds of millions of queries per month (in one case a domain that has been known to hit 1 billion queries per day) – I’m sorry but we have to bring things back into reality. Getting that kind of usage on a DOS fortified, globally deployed anycast DNS network such as ours for $15 or $50 per year was nice while it lasted, but it’s basically costing us money to carry it.
1 Billion DNS queries in one day!
Holy Crap!
7am is too early
February 8th, 2010There are a few of us at the moment working very hard on a proposal. I worked all weekend, and I was at the office at 7am this morning, because it is due today.
The security guard wouldn’t let me in. He said because I don’t have an access card yet, he cant let me in until 8am. Forgetting the obvious question (“Gee Jake, you’ve been there a few months now, why don’t you have an access card?”), the real question is why can’t you let me in until 8am? And what am I supposed to do until then?
I was pretty pissed. But I was also (and still am) quite tired due to all the overtime and so on. So let me ask you, does it make any sense to you? If he can let me in at 8am without a card, why cant he let me in at 7am without a card? I guess I’ll have to wait an hour before I do all my stealing.
Anyway, all I did was walk down the car ramp into the carpark, and tailgate someone in through the security barriers down there. Yeah, heaps secure.
Quick, Log into SAP!
February 5th, 2010Um, Ok…. If you can tell me what to click on …..
Old dog, new tricks: Windows XP task bar
February 4th, 2010Did you know you can have a two row task bar in XP? Yeah, so did I. But did you know that you can arrange the icons like this?
My XP taskbar
And iTunes supplies a pretty nifty little toolbar app too. Pity it doesn’t do mouse-over track info though….