Follow-up to Mobile SPAM

So I gots me s’more spam to mah mobile. o.O
Thankfully, it turns out that there is some proper recourse. Thanks to Stefano for pointing me in the right direction. (original post here)
WASPA (or Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association) is the “Industry Body” for Wireless Service Providers in SA. They have a complaints page where you [...]

You feel a disturbance…

(xx:55:12) You feel a disturbance in the force…
(xx:56:34) Tricky: Afternoon
(xx:05:54) anon: HI
(xx:08:19) anon has left the conversation.
Sometimes I think I shouldn’t let Pidgin try to make me Jedi.

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Connecting to a VPN changes the default gateway – breaks your Internet access

I’d never really had the need to connect to a VPN until this weekend. After connecting, I found that my Internet access was rather non-functional except to the VPN in question. A colleague happened to be on hand (he’d given me the access details in the first place) and he quickly suggested this workaround.
Today, a [...]

Discourse on Wines

I like any wine. As long as it doesn’t taste like i am biting into a 300-year-old oak tree, I am always game.
– Erin (no, the pretty one)

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Mobile SPAM

I don’t receive much spam to my mobile phone. I have received random sms’s on occasion about “special” offers and so forth. Someone also once sms’d “on my behalf” to one of those late-night e-tv specials adverts. Every month I receive an enticing message informing me about what I’m missing out on. I wonder though, [...]