peteconnolly.co.uk » WTF? http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress Pete's Pictures Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:27:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Domain Renewal Group – scammy smelling snailmail http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2009/11/28/domain-renewal-group-scammy-smelling-snailmail/ http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2009/11/28/domain-renewal-group-scammy-smelling-snailmail/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:53:07 +0000 pete http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/?p=374 Another day, another letter from “Domain Renewal Group” sent to our house, warning that one of my domain names (my main work one) will expire on April 10th 2010.   Apart from the fact that it’s a wee bit early to renew (I’d prefer to keep my cash in the bank as long as possible, TYVM), they charge an outrageous £20 for a single year.  One & One charge me £8.99, so we’re looking at a 122% increase, yet they don’t host the web site or email, they just redirect these to ones I supply myself.

A pretty poor offer, yet their modus operandi seems to be:

  • Do a whois lookup for the billing contact for a domain that will expire in the next N months (N seems to be getting larger)
  • Send a letter on good quality paper to this address, vague enough to confuse a non-technical person.
  • Take their ridiculous cut for not doing very much.
  • Profit!

There’s more information over here about their dodgy practices. People are even implying that they won’t provide the basic service they claim, but I can’t comment on that since I’ll never use their service.

Parasites.

]]> http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2009/11/28/domain-renewal-group-scammy-smelling-snailmail/feed/ 2 game over http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/08/18/game-over/ http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/08/18/game-over/#comments Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:52:30 +0000 pete http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/08/18/game-over/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }

game over, originally uploaded by Pete Connolly.

After entertaining the hundreds of tourists for a while, our hero retires, satisfied with his performance. The bikini bottom over pants look is striking

]]> http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/08/18/game-over/feed/ 0 Getting to the point http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/06/20/getting-to-the-point/ http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/06/20/getting-to-the-point/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:35 +0000 pete http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/06/20/getting-to-the-point/ An excellent analysis of marketing speak from a drug company.

Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

Very, very funny.

]]> http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/06/20/getting-to-the-point/feed/ 2 The problem with public networks… http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/03/20/the-problem-with-public-networks/ http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/03/20/the-problem-with-public-networks/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:35:05 +0000 pete http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/03/20/the-problem-with-public-networks/ ..is that there can be too many people on them with you. Take a look at this hotel network – spot the CCTV servers ripe for messing around with.

Too many servers..

Those PCs starting with Ezcctv are the CCTV control computers for the hotel I’m staying in. Not to mention that the ‘office’ server here has publically writeable shares viewable by all guests in the hotel. It’s surprisingly It was surprisingly empty :)

]]> http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/03/20/the-problem-with-public-networks/feed/ 0 Explain this to your kid… http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/explain-this-to-your-kid/ http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/explain-this-to-your-kid/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:24:33 +0000 pete http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/blog/wordpress/2007/02/22/explain-this-to-your-kid/ Well Luke, it’s like this.  When a mammy and a daddy love each other very much….

(Still cheaper than ‘A Day with Thomas’)

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