"That's pressure tactics" - I've also had contact with the cold acquisition of Unity Media (or call centers commissioned by them - I don't care who spouts the nonsense, one pays the other for the "performance"). Particularly amusing: I never had a contract with them (but presumably my landlord - but he can't agree to advertising calls on my behalf), the caller claimed the opposite, of course, quite brazenly. And after my instruction that their action is illegal, as I never had a contract with them and therefore could never agree to telephone advertising, she simply hung up. They are, after all, extremely "serious" companies ...
Archive 16. July 2008
My Code Blog: ICFP Contest 2008 - umm. Navigation software. Written in the TeX macro language (with small Perl helpers for network access, which TeX doesn't have). I already find the idea of a sqrt macro in TeX sick (hey, that stuff doesn't even have all the basic arithmetic operations - it doesn't necessarily need them as a text typesetting system). Some people just have too much time ...
Postgres-R: a database replication system for PostgreSQL - worth a look?