To: info@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, postmaster@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, contact@cannes-centre.pizza-shop.fr, riviera@angloinfo.com, riviera.forums@angloinfo.com.

CC: info@mister-pizza.com, contact@mister-pizza.com, postmaster@mister-pizza.com

(Note that some addresses may not be active, though RFC requirements do require a postmaster@ address, though many domains choose to ignore this at their peril.)

I thank you for being fuckers.

For all the claims of quality, you fail to respect service. I’ve already
announce on Twitter #Cannes

http://twitter.com/SirWumpus/statuses/9787915922

your failures and I’ll publish in other Internet places related to Cannes / Cote d’Azur your refusal to respect common practice concerning 10-points for a free pizza.

Your most current flyer claims free delivery and makes no exceptions concerning 10 points for a free pizza. All the competitors, especially Mister Pizza (http://www.mister-pizza.com/index_fr.html), respect the concept of delivering a 10-point free pizza. PIZZA SHOP DOES NOT!

Your requirement that I must order a regular pizza at the same time as the free pizza is unreasonable for single person. How do you expect one person to eat two pizzas?! Totally stupid. Typically french as the english have come to know; certainly wanker behaviour

I’ve including Anglinfo.fr, Mister Pizza, and friends in this communication. I hope that they publish these details about your
failures to respect common practices.

Update: since the Pizza Shop fuckers won’t respect the “10-point get one free” concept, I’ve opted to order from a new different delivery place in Cannes, Wasabi d’Azur(04 93 39 55 70). This is my second time trying their service. No point system, but at least honest and friendly thus far.

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Henry Gibson was an original cast member of Laugh-In where he played the Poet and would recite his own original work. I remember watching the show as a small boy in the evenings.

Today thinking about lunch, I started to wonder what fictitious hot pepper and/or preparation method I could come up with for my own variety of pepper. Here’s one idea:

Start with peppers grown on the South Seas island of Bora Gora hand pick by 72 native virgin females, then dried on the thighs of Californian porn stars, while under the influence of Ecstasy, and vacuum packed (sans porn stars).

In preparation for cooking, the peppers should be rehydrated by wearing them strung around the neck, while dancing to heavy techno or similar high energy music in a night club for at least three hours and under the influence of several vodka-red-bulls (to taste). Only then are they ready to be used in the chilli pot or other spicy cuisine.

I was wondering what I would call this particular pepper. My buddy Steve F. suggested fuckaneros, but it lacks in subtlety what it makes up for in simplicity. All I could come up with at the moment was Tropical Red Porn Pepper.

I wonder what other people might call my “hot pepper” or how they would define their own. Leave comments.

SnertSoft is happy to announce Private Wimp, a simple light weight mailing list manager, that is free to download. Private Wimp has been used to manage several mailing lists for past few months now.

It avoids the bloat of Major Domo, Mailman, and Ecartis . Completely written in C and so avoids the overhead of Perl or Python. Installation and configuration is short and simple; all list management can be done remotely by email; always confirms subscribe/unsubscribe requests and admin. commands; handles bounce messages (discard, forward, or removal of unknown users); provides support for four list types (announcement, trusted, closed moderated, open moderated); keeps track of users that unsubscribe; and provides a simple archive structure (similar to Ecartis).

The online documentation can be found here:

http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/wimp/

I even wrote Javascript classes that implemented them. I thought it would be kind of neat in an odd ball off the wall sense, like expressing the speed of light in furlong per fortnight, to display them here on the blog (see sidebar right). I’ve even had an idea for a new RFC

Today though I’m making my first pot of chillie con carne of the season, in preparation for the Beaujolais Nouveau wine coming out on Thursday (always the 3rd Thursday of November) and its been a kind of tradition ever since I’ve lived in France. It should taste very good in about two days once the spice have diffused throughout the pot and should go very nice with the wine; nice contrast of tastes between savory chilli and the sweet fruity wine. Mmm.

However, I have two issues with this:

First, to achieve this data gathering, a web site is required to load on each web page of interest a Javascript file called urchin.js from Google or the more advanced ga.js file. Essentially a web site is telling your browser to execute some remote 3rd party script on your system. This is a BAD idea in terms of security, since it might be possible to hijack that script in transit and replace it with attack / hack code. Also the script is not loaded securely via HTTPS, so no certificate authentication or validation of any kind is done; just blind trust that google-analytics.com has not been hijack by DNS cache poisioning or that some intermediate web proxy hasn’t been compromised.

Second, I am interested in protecting my privacy online as much as possible these days. I already have a pretty big online foot print dating as far back as 1986; regardless I see it as my right to restrict data collected about me. So whenever a web site asks for HTTP cookies, Flash Cookies (How to Manage Flash Settings), tries to load advertising, or track my movements through scripts and/or cookies, I’ll go out of my way to block that from happening.

So when a web site loads urchin.js or ga.js, it is going to communicate information about visitors back to Google. I find this an invasion of my online privacy. What I do online is my business, not Google’s. Google already has enough data about what search terms I look for (this can be controlled through Google, though who knows if it is honoured or not). Frankly I don’t think Google or any other 3rd party advertiser needs to know where and what the frack I’m doing.

Simple solution: use a URL blocker, like Bork Bork Bork! or Adblock Plus, to block urchin.js, ga.js, and/or anything from google-analytics.com from being accessed. If you don’t want to use a URL block, this can also be achieved by adding to the Unix or Mac OS X /etc/hosts file (Windows has an equivalent C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) and add an entry like:

127.0.0.1  www.google-analytics.com

Most webs sites where google-analytics.com has been blocked are designed well enough to continue functioning. However, there are a small handful of web sites the refuse to do anything when the tracking code is not loaded. Typical bad design on the web sites part. In the end I see Google Anal-Tics as evil and chose not to do business with web sites that expect me to put up with that shit.