November 2008 – Neverness

An attractive honeypot

I came across a website recently that, lurking amongst the usual About Us and Contact Details had an Anti-spam link. I followed the link, and came to this page. It’s a company selling an anti-spam product, and the page was a spam honeypot (or spamtrap). Spam honeypots are web pages with email addresses that then… Continue reading An attractive honeypot

Elements of Health – raw bliss

This weekend I attended Elements of Health, a 2-day Raw Food Course. Urban Sprout‘s turbosprout also recently attended the course, and you can read their review here. Facilitated by Peter and Beryn, two experienced raw food vegan chefs, the course was lots of fun. Peter has a similar presentation style to David Wolfe, ie great… Continue reading Elements of Health – raw bliss

Mindfulness lessons from a five-year-old

Having a child is a great lesson in mindfulness, and living in the moment. Dorje’s mind: Brrummmm, here comes the aeroplane, yeeeoooowwwww, crash, into the mountain. Jump, the plane’s on fire!!! Don’t worry, here comes the fire engine, bee baw, bee baw… My mind: Brrummmm, here comes the aeroplan… damn, he’s putting his feet on… Continue reading Mindfulness lessons from a five-year-old

A little too Intrepid for me

I recently upgraded, for want of a better word, my Lenovo Y510, running Ubuntu Hardy to Intrepid, and, as you’ll see later, also Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10. I’ve been running Ubuntu since around Feisty. I switched from Kubuntu, which I was running before that, around that time as I realised that Kubuntu was lagging far behind… Continue reading A little too Intrepid for me