The continuing saga of Steve Anderson... 
Click for bigness. I drove past this Labour anti-Tory poster the other day and noticed the person who'd put it up had buggered up the edges and cut the 'D' off 'FORWARD'. So Labour are proudly 'FOR WAR' =)
(Obviously being anti-Tory isn't a bad thing, but I've paid my Lib Dem membership and have a card to prove it.)
The official** Michael Jackson celebratory Jesus Juice t-shirts are now available from our friends at Spice.co.uk, with prices starting at a very reasonable £13.50. Click on either of the pictures below to get to an ordering page.
*Reposted higher to attract Popbitches.
**Official Irregular Shed t-shirts, obviously.
It seems most visitors are coming here because of my Briviclaim/Carphone Warehouse/Charles Dunstone post of a few days ago. Thanks for dropping by! If Google has referred you here then chances are it's spilt off the bottom of this page of the blog, so click to read the start of the conquest. Here's the latest on my investigation.
Since the first post, I've received two more emails (that have got their way through the spam filters) with the same text, this time dropping Tony Blair's name into the 'From:' or 'Subject:' fields. As mentioned before, the IP address that all these messages are originating from is 209.203.207.141. I said it was based in Fort Lauderdale, but chances are it isn't, because there's conflicting information on the WHOIS database as to who actually owns the IP block...
steve@giles:~$ whois 209.203.207.141
PG & C Leasing, INC PGCNETBLK (NET-209-203-192-0-1)
209.203.192.0 - 209.203.223.255
Expedite Marketing Corporation EMC-NET (NET-209-203-192-0-2)
209.203.192.0 - 209.203.207.255
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2005-04-06 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
steve@giles:~$
PG & C Leasing don't exist any more, but still have data floating around on WHOIS databases. They actually haven't existed for four years, as this page notes (notice the 'Inactive' and 'Dissolution' remarks). The block is now, so far as we can tell, owned by Expedite Marketing Corporation - but it was previously hijacked by an ISP in Florida which specialised in grabbing IP blocks from defunct ISPs (allegedly).
Anyway, Expedite Marketing Corporation have a web presence. They do a variety of things, including hosting and 'opt-in' email marketing and things. But their terms and conditions are nowhere to be seen, so it's nigh-on impossible to work out whether Briviclaim is in violation of them. But we can find out.
I suggest this - forward all spam from Briviclaim to abuse@expeditemg.com with a covering note saying that it has originated from a server in their IP block and that you have never opted in to receive libelous emails from anyone. It's okay - this email address turns up on the WHOIS information for Briviclaim. There's a phone number provided in the WHOIS, which is invalid, so save the effort. No fax number either - tch.
As to Briviclaim themselves, well... I thought I'd take this opportunity to create a new email address (thanks to the glut of Gmail invites I have) and email to try and find out why they're doing this. From a respectable online advertiser (my friend works for one) you'd expect a response pretty sharpish... but so far, nothing. And the new Gmail account (which I've not used for anything else or publicised) means that if spam turns up there, I know who to blame.
If anything more comes of this, I shall let you all know!
Here's today, thanks to Carol Kirkwood, a DVD recorder, mplayer and GIMP. This is British springtime.
Rain sun rain sun rain sun windy windy windy snow rain sun GALES!
Rain sun snow windy rain sun snow GALES rain thunder sun thunder windy windy GALES!
Snow sun windy rain GALES sun snow bastard windy cold thunder sun GALES!
Methinks this April will be the equivalent of a weather swatch book...
The map on the weather forecast today was so achingly British I had to take screen grabs to blog. Annoyingly the 8:20 weather had even more ridiculous weather for tomorrow and Friday, but it was cut short half an hour later when I DVDed it. (What, 'DVDed'? It's like 'videoed' but 21st Century...) Click for biggyness.
Rain rain rain lightning rain rain sun sun rain rain windy.
Rain rain rain lightning rain rain sun sun rain hailstorm rain gales.
Coming tomorrow... rain rain rain lightning rain snow rain sun hail rain gales COLD. Welcome to British Summer Time!
I love these examples of subvertising. We can only hope that the Lib Dem vote will be strong enough to knock the Tories into third place... but that's enough of my card-carrying, paid-up member of a political party diatribe for today.
Anyway, roll on May 6th when, humiliated by defeat, Michael Howard becomes the third Tory leader to resign in rapid succession.
Shame it's fake, because it looks ace. Hey ho.
Now go and buy a Jesus Juice t-shirt, or Michael Jackson might touch your pee-pee.
Buy official Jesus Juice t-shirts at SP!CE - prices from £13.50, available in Black and White (like Michael Jackson).
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