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I am off to Egypt for a week. Spending some time in Luxor at the Luxor Meridien and hopefully getting up to Cairo to see the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.

Can’t wait! 7 (or is it 8 ) days of sun, sand and old things

Quite often we receive mail that is addressed to tenants who previously lived in our house. A lot of it is junk and the previous tenants have left on a round-the-world-tour so we have nor forwarding address.

Because I am a snoopy bastard I opened one of the letters because it looked interesting and had a certain weight to it. It was addressed to a previous tenant and was sent from Malta.

What was inside was definitely not a normal letter. As you can see from the pictures it seems to be some sort of a transponder manufactured for IBM by a company called Lyngsoe Industries called Postag. I can’t seem to find any information on Postag anywhere on the Internet. The letter also came with a piece of paper asking the recepient to mark when they received it and send the letter back. So being the responsible person I am, I took two photos and left it on my mantle piece.

Tin-foil hats anyone?

I was standing in line (like the sheep I am) in Starbucks for my traditional latte and muffin (there is no way for a man to say this without sounding gay, I promise you) when the lady behind me orders, wait for it, a Venti Latte with an extra triple shot of espresso.

If that can’t get you going in the morning, nothing will.

By the way, a Venti latte is about 500ml of coffee.

I have just moved my website and email to a new server in the USA. At the same time I decided to consolidate all my domains that I own and sort out the DNS as well as the nameservers that they run off. This turned out a little trickier than I planned as the people that manage .za.net take a while to update the whois records which makes nameserver changes a pain.

So down the the crux of the matter. I want a nice domain name, preferably a .com that I can use for my website and email. I currently own raybooysen.com but that only holds records for my nameservers and nothing else. The username I use on most websites and my gamertag on XBox Live is “Twyford”. Unfortunately this domain is long gone so I need some ideas.

Please! I am getting desperate. My DNS records cry out at me: “Ray, give us a catchy name, Please!” So for the sake of my DNS records, any ideas?

I had my Sourceforge project registered on Friday! I have been wanting to write an OPML Outliner for a while and decided to get the ball rolling by registering a project with Sourceforge. After one rejection because of a horrible description of my project, I received my admission email on Friday.

So what do I get? Free hosting for a project management page, 100MB of webspace for a project website, one MySQL database, SSH access to a shell server, SSH access to their compile farm, mailing lists, bug tracker, forums and CVS. What more could you ask for? Pretty good for paying nothing every month.

So, please navigate over to my project page to see the progress on my new project. It would be great to have some visitors. The project is currently in a planning phase as I get my class definitions down and some structure into the application.

For any fans of the books or the movie, which I watched on Friday (it is great!), Google has the answer to the Ultimate Question. Clicky!