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Fiery Pope!

Did good old Karol really appear in a bonfire during a ceremony on his death’s second anniversary (already this April) – and if so, what does he want to tell us with this purgatorial or hellfire look?


(Image from the Daily Mail – see there for larger version)

Or is it a dancing John Travolta? Seemed to me, too…

Was it manipulated (which the photographer apparently denies strictly)? Or is it simply anything you want to interpret into it (see pareidolia)? I’m favoring the latter…

(via Bad Astronomy: “Popeidolia”)

Dear (Mr) Anghela,

Woman's portrait (I know it’s hard to translate the mockery of a spam in bad German to English – I made some changes because I couldn’t translate everything verbatim without too much explanations –, but please bear with me anyway, if you will… )

I do think nice you want get know *erm* *hrrm* *harrumph* I wanted to say, I like it that you want to get to know me, call me a “dear friend” and send me two nice photos, but you rather try to find a better translator for you than the presumed machine that translated your Russian(?), because otherwise, I think it will only “be comfortable when we by-pass ourselves e-mails” due to the fact we won’t read anything from each other.

But I’m sorry to say about “To Me it very Well Your Side on the lot”, I don’t own a lot of land. Maybe you’re right and “it only the big plus for us more older are.”

But all that just along the way. I think it’s really remarkable how pretty and very female transsexuals can look, it’s just that, well, how should I tell you, sorry, unfortunately, I’m not really totally 100% completely interested. Though I’d have liked to know what it is like “to potect” you, couldn’t have been too perverted – or could it?

mouth with cherry Well, my best wished for your search for someone who just as much searches “the second half of life” (and that even though that comes over time all by itself), and go along with your (electronical, hence non-physical) greetings:

“The strongest and passionate kiss!
Your boyfriend Anghela.”

(Alright, one little explanation: English “friend” (and other languages too, I assume) can be male and female, but German differentiates that with “Freund”/”Freundin”.)

(PS: If you, dear reader, happen to own the rights of these pictures the spammers used, just send me a little note and I’ll remove them.)

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Update: In the comments in Stefano Picco’s blog (German, of course) someone posted the next mail he got from “replying”, also in this German antispam forum here and there……

Continued: Reply from Anghela.

Guess I should mention in every part of this series that this can only be from frauds who want to grift pretended travel costs.

Little calculation imprecision of 53%

Update: Im Excel-Team-Blog wurde eine kleine Erklärung veröffentlicht (englisch), es beträfe “nur” die Anzeige, nicht das zwischengespeicherte Ergebnis. Dumm also “nur” für die, die auch mal Werte anzeigen lassen und nicht nur damit rechnen…

Update 2: Ein Hotfix ist mittlerweile verfügbar.

Microsoft Excel 2007, a spreadsheet calculation program for which the correctness of calculations is not quite unimportant, messes up some multiplications that should result in 65,535, e.g.

850 * 77.1 = 100,000

How it gets the idea to turn a result that has the lowest 16 bits (integer representation) all set to 1 into 100,000 (decimal) – and only with some pairs of numbers, not all – I have no idea. Maybe they wanted to hide another bug or flaw this way… anyway, that’s become a complete flop. They want to release a patch as soon as possible…

:hammer:

Maybe it was just a test to see if people are actually using Excel 2007 already and not stick with older versions (which probably many companies do)…?

(via Golem.de)

Update: The Excel Team Blog published a little explanation, according to which “only” the display is affected, not the stored result. So it’s “only” bad for those who have results displayed and don’t just calculate…

Update 2: A hotfix is now available.