By now I was suspicious, cause Amin doesn’t actually type messages out like a teenage girl (for the most part). So I clicked the link, and found this page next:

This is brilliant! A message that you need to update your Flash Player, very common for new installs of Windows. What makes it more convincing is the comments list — people from my Friends List, and that of the original victim appear to be egging me on to download the Flash Update and install it!

I suspect I’m going to be getting an increased number of desperate please for help within the next few days from people who worry if their antics have been caught on video, and as a result upgraded their Flash Player. Sigh.

UPDATE: Thanks to Sophie Hamilton, I have more info on it at Malware City.

I was wrong. He positioned it too far right, and somewhere along the way managed to leave a mark on the top left edge.

As we walked away, I was ranting about how badly done it was, and Sanjev turned and said sardonically, “Well he’s definitely not getting a Zonda”. I have to agree.

I forsee Friends of Ed creating a book series, “Foundation Adobe CS3 Installation”, Amazon cross selling people who buy the software with something like “Customers who purchased Adobe CS3, also bought 100 capsule bottles of Excedrin, Pepsid AC, and a book titled “How to find a job when you’ve been fired for missing a deadline because you were installing Adobe CS3″.

— Dave Gillem on Crucial Limit

P.S.: Yes I like long titles :)

My favourite moment came when I pointed out that journalists should be on the side of those who suffer. If we were reporting the 18th-century slave trade, I said, we wouldn’t give equal time to the slave ship captain in our dispatches. If we were reporting the liberation of a Nazi concentration camp, we wouldn’t give equal time to the SS spokesman. At which point a journalist from the Jewish Telegraph in Prague responded that “the IDF are not Hitler”. Of course not. But who said they were?

— Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons by Robert Fisk

Windows Live Messenger took 1 hour and 30 minutes to install thanks your installer deciding my offline package (downloaded just this afternoon) was too old. Apparently there was a minute version mismatch with the latest one in your repository.

Installing software on Windows in general is an already slow process, but you seem to think that it’d be awesome to slow me down further. Please bear in mind that not everyone has a T3 connection.

Please fix. Kthnxbai.

Sincerely, Kevin.

Vista Service Pack 1 Audio: Fail.

P.S.: I can’t help but notice that everything I write about Vista tends to the negative. About the only positive thing I can say is that It’s quite pretty.

Trial programs contain the same functionality that you get when you buy the perpetual versions — but only for a limited time.

Well, something is seriously wrong with their activation process because even after activation, and getting an expiry date (sometime in July), I couldn’t do anything but view files, email etc.

How can they get something like this wrong? This is a really bad experience for anyone evaluating Office 2007 for their company (like I am).

Update: Well, it works now. Uninstalling it and reinstalling fixes the problem. Same thing on another machine. This is most odd. I quite like it so far though…

On Thursday I transferred some funds from my RHB account to my MayBank account, and I still don’t have it. It is Saturday morning. Talk about poor service. Idiots. Now I’m going to have to worry about where my money went through the weekend and call them and give them an earful on Monday. I’m sure I’ll get my money on Monday or (god forbid) Tuesday, but the problem really is that I wanted to use it today.

This is such a contrast to Maybanks wonderfully consistent service — instant, or near instant transfer. You click OK, and within a few minutes your money is available, even with interbank transfers. Then again, RHB is the bank that took 5 working days to clear a cheque of mine once, so I’m wondering if I should even be surprised?