Finally Summer

Back in April when it was already warm and pleasant we were hoping for a great summer like last year. But things turned out differently. The temperature kept changing between 10 and 20 °C on an almost daily basis. And cloudy skys, monsoon rain and sunshine took turns for weeks.

But it seems that the summer has finally arrived in England after all that unsettled weather. During the past weekend we had a nice trip to London including a long walk on the south bank of the Thames, visited the botanic garden and had a great barbecue. And all that with lots of sunshine and without a single drop of rain.

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Next Generation Spam

Last Wednesday I received spam over IPv6 for the first time. Somebody (or something?) tried to post a spam comment to this Blog from a computer in Japan using an IPv6 network connection to my web server.

One of the things I really liked about IPv6 so far was the total absence of spam. But thanks to Microsoft’s Windows Vista (with builtin IPv6 support) spammers are now invading this domain, too. 🙁

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Movie of the Week: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

It took a lot of magic to lift the curse of the bad sequel but the fifth Harry Potter movie managed to do it. Like the four previous movies it was well made. I even had the impression that less of the story got lost when the book had to be compressed to fit into the time-frame of a movie. But maybe that is just because the fifth volume was less dense than the previous ones.

A bunch of new characters were introduced and I was especially pleased by the performance of Imelda Staunton. She portrayed Dolores Umbridge just as nasty and wretched as J.K. Rowling describes her in the book.

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