Another scam claiming to be from "Microsoft and AOL email beta".
From: MICROSOFT GOLDEN JUBILEE PROMOTION <crowsds@cox.net>
Date: Aug 31, 2007 4:16 AM
Subject: CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT(MR KEN GATE) FOR CLAIMS PROCEDUREDear Lucky winner,
GOLDEN JUBILEE PROMOTION BY MICROSOFT
The gap between rich and poor is widening. An example from the USA, is that a CEO makes in one day, what a worker makes in an entire year.
Chief executive officers of big U.S. companies earned roughly as much each day last year as the average American production worker did in 12 months, according to a study published Wednesday by advocates of a higher U.S. minimum wage.
The CEOs were paid an average $10.8 million US — including salaries, bonuses and stock options— or more than 364 times the average worker's $29,544, the authors say.
I saw this a while back, and thought that it raises a good point: the cost of experience!
A furnace repairman coming to a home and after looking at the furnace for about a minute and a half, listening to the rumbles and gurgles. He takes his hammer out and at once precise place he hits the furnace. The furnace starts up and runs fine as if it was brand new.
The bill was $200.
The homeowner asks why so much when all he did was hit it once with a hammer?
The repairman takes back the bill, and itemizes the bill still totaling $200.
Another advance fee fraud email, with a bit of a new wording.
From: "Mr. Jubril Abubakar." <JubrilAbubakar@new.rr.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: CONTACT MY A/C OFFICER FOR YOUR CHEQUE OF US$700.000.00 COMPENSATION!Dear Partner,
Its been quite a long time and maybe you may have forgotten completely about me and my transaction. In all case, I thank God and I am happy to inform you about my success in getting those funds transferred under the co-operation of a new partner from paraguay.
I have very little time to read general blogs. I visit random blogs of various Egyptians occasionally when a link is passed on to me or when I am lost or something.
I don't know when the topic of this post started to happen, but I am amazed at the amount of foul language in use by Egyptian bloggers currently.
Perhaps it is a meme that I missed, or perhaps something else.
Previously, extremely offensive language was used only by anonymous posters when they tried ad hominen attacks on the blogger. Alaa and Manal's blog had many of these for example.
Drupaller Noel Hidalgo is traveling the world in seven months and documenting Open Source, Drupal, freedom, and many other aspects of his experience in his Luck of Seven web site.
In Antwerp, he met with Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert, and interviewed him.
The interview is now up on the Luck of Seven web site.
Warning for those on a slow link: this is 132MB.
As I noted earlier, Open Craft knew that I was in Egypt, and invited me to give a Drupal presentation. I chose Drupal performance tuning and optimization, and userpoints as the topic.
A new PBS documentary about Muslim Spain aired on August 22, 2007. The PBS web site does not have much info on the topic.
Islamic Spain was the closest thing to what is today a multicultural society. Jews, Christians and Muslims lived together, and excellent achievements were made in the fields of culture, art, poetry, astronomy, medicine, agriculture, commerce, and much more. This period is known in modern Spanish as La Convivencia (the co-existence).
This is a picture from a reunion of some EGC boys who left in 1975.
Left to right: Mahmoud El Gamal, me, Hani El Menoufi, Abdel Hamid Kassem (non-EGC), Ehab El Habbak, Amr El Souefi, Akram El Nakeeb.
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