managers who hide

A manager in music store in Alexandria several months ago berated his staff member when the staff member did the right thing. He had mucked up a series of credit card transactions for a customer. In the end he thought he had corrected the problem. The manager, instead of looking over his work and confirming that he had indeed corrected the problem told him that he did not want to know. The manager wanted to live in a world where ignorance is bliss and avoidance of responisibiltiy is the name of the game. If the staff memebr stuffed up then he could blame the member of staff. What he should have done was make sure that the lesson was learned and the mistake not repeated. The fact that it happened int he first place may be an indication of a lack of good management.

user names

When I first started using the internet many years ago, I quickly discovered that there were too many people out there with the same name as me. Of course the problem was that when I went to create a user name, say on the times in new york, I would find that byap and brianyap and various combinations were already in use. I did not want to have to create a new user name for each site as then I had to write them all down. This particularly applied to sites I rarely use. At the time I was trying to learn Mandarin Chinese so I chose my name in mandarin as my user name - yewenyi. This is different to my name in hakka (yap) which is on my birth certificate. BTW yap is still spelled incorrectly, it should be yup. For many years this worked. I had my user name to myself. It worked until the chinese started using the internet in large numbers. But still I rarely encounter them and often I will go in and make a user ID if I am considering a site to stop someone else from taking it.

One advantage is that I can search on this name and see how the search engines rank my sites. This morning I thought to look some where else and the result was quite surprising. As far as I can see most of this stuff is virus and other malicious software. Certainly none of it was ever created by myself.

We need something like this in Australia:

Police incidents database is launched

The National Union of Journalists and the British Press Photographers Association have partnered to launch a website where photographers who feel they have been obstructed by the police can log a report of the incident.

http://www.londonfreelance.org/policing/

law makers

It seems that the world is full of stupid law makers who should have sense to make balanced and sensible laws that target the bad people and not the good. Also police who spend their time chasing the wrong targets.

According to these recent interpretations of the law, a curious teenage girl who embarks on an "Our Bodies, Ourselves" journey of vaginal self-discovery, and simply replaces a hand mirror with a digital camera, is a kiddie pornographer. The same goes for the boy who memorializes his raging boner or the post-pubescent girl who takes test shots of herself practicing the porn star poses she has studied online. Theoretically, this is true regardless of whether they share the pictures with anyone, and if they do share them, they could be additionally charged with peddling child porn.

strange email differences.

When I send emails from my mobile phone they all work normally except for one set. The first one here is from a normal email.

    From:     yewenyi@athree.com.au
Subject:     syd
Date:     14 February 2009 12:24:04 PM
To:     mail@yewenyi.net
Reply-To:     yewenyi@athree.com.au
X-Apparently-To:     mail@yewenyi.net via 74.6.114.45; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:24:14 -0800
X-Yahoofilteredbulk:     202.124.68.57
X-Originating-Ip:     [202.124.68.57]
Authentication-Results:     mta105.biz.mail.re3.yahoo.com  from=three.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:     from 202.124.68.57  (EHLO auummr1om04.three.com.au) (202.124.68.57) by mta105.biz.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:24:14 -0800
Received:     from auumvs2fe03.three.com.au (auummr1vp02.three.com.au [10.176.58.185]) by auummr1om04.three.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id DRA64433; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:09 +1000 (EST)
Received:     from auumeb0fe02.three.com.au ([10.176.58.143]) by auumvs2fe03.three.com.au  with ESMTP id n1E1O9B4009199 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:09 +1000
Received:     from [10.225.223.250] ([10.225.223.250]) by auumeb0fe02.three.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ADU21044; Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:24:08 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id:     
X-Mailer:     EPOC Email Version 2.10
Mime-Version:     1.0
Content-Language:     i-default
Content-Type:     text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding:     quoted-printable

and the second is from the strange ones. These one have the header in the body, the email addresses themselves are wrong and the title of the email is misplaced and hence my email client cannot find it.

 From:  yewenyi@athree.com.au
Date:  21 February 2009 9:45:04 AM
To:  mail@yewenyi.net, Spoin@three.com.au
Reply-To:  yewenyi@athree.com.au
X-Apparently-To:  mail@yewenyi.net via 74.6.114.34; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:45:08 -0800
X-Originating-Ip:  [202.124.68.60]
Authentication-Results:  mta108.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=three.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received:  from 202.124.68.60  (EHLO auummr1om02.three.com.au) (202.124.68.60) by mta108.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:45:08 -0800
Received:  from auumvs2fe02.three.com.au (auummr1vp02.three.com.au [10.176.58.185]) by auummr1om02.three.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with ESMTP id AUY28575; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:06 +1000 (EST)
Received:  from auumeb0fe02.three.com.au ([10.176.58.143]) by auumvs2fe02.three.com.au  with ESMTP id n1KMj6wD031615; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:06 +1000
Received:  from [10.227.46.11] ([10.227.46.11]) by auumeb0fe02.three.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id ADU51188; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:45:04 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id:  <200902202245.adu51188@auumeb0fe02.three.com.au>

k Blog 
Subject: prostitutes
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:45:01 +1100
Message-ID: 
X-Mailer: EPOC Email Version 2.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Language: i-default
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Edit: added (2009.02.24)

Here is another trace from when my yahoo mail bounced the email. For a while, my yahoo mail disappeared from the network.

Return-Path: 
Return-Path: 
X-RocketTIP: 202.124.68.57: NO_TIP_HEADER_ALLOWED
X-RocketSRV: s_ip=202.124.68.57;d_t=1235258193;url=spoink.com,mailto:blog@spoink.com,three.net.au,mailto:0kqkzrrdtk1f.tzyygp14@smtp.three.net.au;Retro=Y;
X-Rocket-Track: cat=UK; info=ip:NN;ipsh:UK;mcusg:UK;sv:UK;sg:UK;subj:UK;url2db:UK
X-Originating-IP: [202.124.68.57]
Authentication-Results: mta101.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com  from=athree.com.au; domainkeys=neutral (no sig)
Received: from 202.124.68.57  (EHLO auummr1om04.athree.com.au) (202.124.68.57)
by mta101.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:16:33 -0800
Received: from auumvs2fe03.athree.com.au (auummr1vp02.athree.com.au [10.176.58.185])
 by auummr1om04.athree.com.au (MOS 3.8.3-GA)
 with ESMTP id DRW93014;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:31 +1000 (EST)
Received: from auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au ([10.176.58.143])
 by auumvs2fe03.athree.com.au  with ESMTP id n1LNGVMC008846;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:31 +1000
Received: from [10.224.148.234] ([10.224.148.234])
 by auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au (MOS 3.5.5-GR)
 with ESMTP id ADU54540;
 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:29 +1000 (EST)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:16:29 +1000 (EST)
Message-Id: <200902212316.adu54540@auumeb0fe02.athree.com.au>
From: "yewenyi" 
Reply-to: "yewenyi" 
To: Brian Yap , Brian Yap (AOL) ,
      Spoin@athree.com.au

k Blog 
Subject: unisex
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:16:25 +1100
Message-ID: <0kqkzrrdtk1f.tzyygp14@smtp.three.net.au>
X-Mailer: EPOC Email Version 2.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Language: i-default
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Greed and Fear, file sharing and drugs

A little rambling philosophy about this case: Pirate Bay joy at charge change

Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology.

The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges".

In our society we let people do things but stop others. For instance you are free to kill yourself using cigarettes but not free to do so with other inhaled drugs in a system that is stymied by powerful interested and large amounts of money, the difference between those with power and money (tobacco) and those that don't (marijuana). One thing that has always surprised me is that you are allowed to buy bongs. Perhaps they could also be used for smoking.

Similarly, you can drive your car, but no one holds the car manufacturers responsible because you used the car to make a car bomb, do a kidnapping or transport some of those illegal drugs. But you are not allowed to do the same with your own personal tank. The benefit of the car is seen to outweigh the detriment. Also we probably do not have any need for tanks in day-to-day life.

So what we see here is a battle. A battle between powerful men with lots of money against those who provide a service. But is the service like a car or like a tank? I ask? I actually do not know enough about it to know the answer. But this is the question. If it is like a car, then the powerful men should be told to piss off. It is the criminals they are chasing, not the makers. If it is like a tank then you should put in place a regulation limiting the use to those with a licence.

Anyway I am impressed by the sheer gutsiness of the defendants. Bravo.

god speed

I was watching a shuttle launch live a month or two back. One of the controllers said, god speed. I wondered how fast god speed might be: 888 kmh perhaps? (I was really really tempted to say 666 kmh) The boorish Americans on line did not get the joke. Really there is no place for such terminology in a space craft launch.