Quoting Richard Koch (‘The 80/20 principle’) again, more on time management.

The name ‘time management’ gives the game away:

• it implies that time can be managed more efficiently,
• that it is a valuable and scarce resource,
• and that we must dance to its tune.

We must be parsimonious with time. Given half a chance, it will escape from us. Time lost, the time management evangelists say, can never be regained.

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There’s only a few things I like better than having to type a captcha before I can get to my porn or post to my favourite wob2.0 site, things like getting kicked in the crotch, food poisoning and Alanis Morissette. Without further ado, here is how to break captchas part one.

Add a dot and a file extension to your URLs and your site will show up for ‘filetype:’ queries on Google (and other engines I guess) even if you serve just html and not the assumed filetype. Search for filetype:torrent for some examples.

A member on DomainState reports that Network Solutions is registering domains after availability lookups, follow-ups on Conceptualist, Elliot’s Blog, Dominik Mueller, DomainBits
DotSauce. The only thing I have to say is that this is utterly ridiculous. Not to mention that NetSol is now the proud owner of the following domains:

networksolutionsarecunts.com
networksolutionsarefucktards.com
networksolutionsarecfuckheads.com
DOMAINKITINGISWRONG.COM
NETWORKSOLUTIONSSUCKSMONKEYBALLS.COM
NetworkSolutionsSucksAss.com
NETWORKSOLUTIONSKISSMYASS.COM
NETSOLLIKESTOSTEAL.COM

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This is good stuff. Mininova will take your content, make a torrent and seed it for you. You just have to upload it once to them. You can’t upload anything with DRM or spam and you have to own the copyright to the content. You’ll get a featured listing at the top of the frontpage.

Looks like a good way to get extra exposure for your content. It has to be free but there’s nothing stopping you from posting a “lite” version for free and the full for a fee. Plus, I can’t help but think that this is great way for Mininova to get some leverage against legal threats, by providing this very useful and legal service.

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