These guys have been spamming my sports blog for nigh on 10 years now, with pretty much the exact same message year in, year out. (My thanks to Askimet for nuking 99.9% of their submissions.)

I was bloody annoyed at first, but after a certain number of years, you have to admire certain spammers for their consistency and bloody-minded perseverance.

In tribute, here is their spam in full:

Dear Sir,

We introduce ourselves to you as an old, established and well-experienced manufacturers and exporters in Pakistan for the following range of Products. We have our own Tannery Unit and Production Unit and given such up-to-date manufacturing arrangements, our qualities are authentic, durable and fast-selling in an international market .

Please submit us any enquiries for the following items so that we may send you our Catalogue Pictures with best competitive export prices for your study and selection.

SUMMER MOTORBIKE GLOVES, MOTOCROSS GLOVES, CYCLING GLOVES, CROSS COUNTRY GLOVES, NEOPRENE GLOVES, FLEECE GLOVES AND LEATHER GARMENTS etc.

If you needs any thing, please feel free to contact us, we assure you that we will supply you the best quality products at extremely reasonable prices. Yours prompt reply would be highly appereciated.

Best Regards,

Maryam Ali
(Export Manager)

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How to Take a Screenshot (on any system)

by amd on December 15, 2009

I’ve needed to capture a screenshots on several systems recently that do not have the “Print Screen” button. Here are some handy ways to take a picture of the current screen or application if you don’t have access to them.

On-Screen Keyboard on Windows XP

Windows On-Screen Keyboard:

Click Start, RUN,  type “OSK”, hit Enter. You now have a floating keyboard which has a Print Screen – sometimes labeled “PSC”, “Prt Scrn” or “Print Scrn”.  Tip: create a shortcut to the OnScreenKeyboard: right click on the desktop, click New Shortcut, type “OSK”, click next twice, and there you have it. Note: you will get a picture of the keyboard in your screenshots.

win7-osk-w500More about this from Microsoft.

Windows on an Apple Keyboard

I have this issue on my MacBook Air running Windows 7 and Bootcamp – there’s no printscreen button on Apple Keyboards.

  • Function (fn) – Shift – F11 works as printscreen on my MacBook Air.
  • If your Apple keyboard has an F14 button, that should work as PrintScreen in Windows, I’ve heard that F13 sometimes works.
  • For more information on Apple keyboards in Windows, see this article from Apple.

ScreenHunter 5 Free is a “completely free screen capture software” for you to easily take screenshots – I haven’t needed to use it but might be worth a look.

MacOSX on an Apple Keyboard

Cmd-Shift-3 takes a screenshot and saves to the desktop as an image file (Windows saves a copy to the clipboard for pasting into another program).

Hope this helps – now it’s over to you! Is there a system you don’t know how to take a screenshot on that’s not listed here? Leave a comment and I’ll do my best to find an answer for you. If you have any other suggestions, please leave them as comments too !

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Review – The Gathering Storm

30 October 2009

Book Review – The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time book 12) I finished The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson/Robert Jordan late last night, or more accurately around 5am this morning. The Gathering Storm is book 12 of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, who passed away before he was able to finish the series. Sanderson [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

17 May 2009

PrettyPrinter.de is really handy for quickly tidying up code (I’ve been using it a lot for CSS lately) # Morning folks. Reverting to web interface while I try to get Tweetdeck working under Windows 7. # @martharotter @iaindodsworth Cannot restore Tweetdeck on Windows 7: http://amdsoft.com/tweetdeck-on-win7/ in reply to martharotter # @martharotter I’m liking Windows 7 [...]

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Cannot restore Tweetdeck on Windows 7

11 May 2009

I’m seeing an issue where the Tweetdeck window stays minimised all the time under Windows 7 RC. Restarting Tweetdeck does not force it to appear, it seems to be permanently minimised. Right-click Pin to Taskbar has no effect. I can see the Tweetdeck application appear on Alt-Tab (and Win-Tab). When the Tweetdeck button is selected [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

10 May 2009

In the roughhouse world of French rugby, gouging barely raises an eyebrow http://is.gd/wmDL # Any news on Compteponi’s injury? # Leicester deservedly get a breakaway score, 7-3 now after 24 mins. Cmon Cardiff! # Good call from Roland not to yellow for high tackle, no intention there. # Good defence from Cardiff there, cmon Blues [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

3 May 2009

@TheRealAmz They beat us well (maybe with their J3 team) so deserve to go on. Should beat Belvo unless they’re very good. in reply to TheRealAmz # @Kiowah Glad it was useful to you. I occasionally tweet geek/biz stuff off @WebsiteDoctor, but keep most of it here on this a/c. in reply to Kiowah # [...]

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New reading materials (sf and f)

2 May 2009

I was just complaining on Twitter that I’m all out of Charlie Stross and I need some new scifi to read. I am a pretty avid scifi reader (to say the least: it’s like crack cocaine to me). Ross, Janet and Joanna had some great suggestions and we had a good chat about various options. [...]

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How To Stop Skype Changing Your Website Design

1 May 2009

If visitors to your website have Skype installed, it may reformat what it thinks are phone numbers on your website. This can be very annoying if you get a phone call from an angry client asking why the design is broken and you can’t see the problem. The image here shows the contact page of [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-26

26 April 2009

@Cubikmusik Cyclelogical (on the Quays) and Cycleways (Parnell St, more expensive) are good places to look. Haggle *lots* over price. in reply to Cubikmusik # Morning folks. Good weekend all? # @TomRaftery Any politician who has an Asimov quote front and centre on their site gets kudos from me Fair play @sendboyle! in reply to [...]

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