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My fax machine, a T-Fax 361, needs a new ink cartridge. Why does it need a new ink cartridge? Well, because the old one is empty. Why is the old one empty? You guessed it, after receiving lot's of fax spam, when forgetting to unplug the device again after using it.
Thanks, German Telekom for making the registration of fax devices/fax numbers mandatory a thing a few years back! Who could have known, that public records could ever be abused.

I find it annoying, if not fraudulent. Whenever the economy slows down or even crashes, some people start suggesting to buy gold as crisis-proof investments and of course, there are other people, following this ill advice, loosing money even more.

I seriously suspect, that there is a method behind this. A game, played by financial jugglers, that revolves around scaring people, looking for security, into buying their reserves at inflated prices, by trumpeting around, that the global market will collapse soon.

The Vitrine module provides sidebar blocks, which are able to embed nodes, belonging to the same taxonomy category as the page, the user is currently reading.

Vitrine was written with bloggers in mind, who blog about a diverse set of topics, want to earn money through affiliate marketing and need a way to show different product recommendations based on the the category of blog posts.

It's summer and of course, some wasps found a new home in my garden tool shed. I'm not actually hostile towards these insects, since they are a natural pest control, but since I need to access that shed occasionally and don't want to get stung while doing so, they need to go.

So the discussion started in the family, on what would be the best method to accomplish this. The safest choice would of course be calling the pest exterminator, but thats a bit expensive. I'd certainly do it for a large nest, but for small, fist-sized ones, there should be a do it yourself way for removing them.

I learned a nice way to shoot yourself in your own foot the other day: allowing the Full HTML input format to be used for nodes, that may appear in teaser lists, such as the frontpage. The rule of thumb of course is, to not allow this input format to be used by untrusted users, but even trusted users (like myself) can easily use it to accidentally mess things up.

Picture this situation: You are on vacation, taking a walk through the city and all of a sudden you bump into a crowd of people, gathered around Steve Jobs from Apple Inc., who is giving away iPhones for free.