How Not To Get Scammed

I received an SMS message (text message for those Americans amongst you) this morning at 07:04 from my wireless service provider, proclaiming to have given me a free 1GB of data per month. All I had to do was to click the link to enable it.

SMS Message
SMS Message

Firstly I was suspicious at the time the message was sent. My carrier has never sent me an SMS message that early. Secondly, the number did not match anything I associate with them - but that is a bit tenuous as they sometimes use weird internal numbers. The URL in the message (partly blocked out) did seem reasonable but also not exactly what I thought it should be.

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This Pisses Me Off

 java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to java.lang.Long

In specific, all I want to do is use a JSTL variable as index to a variable someMap as follows:

Map<Integer, SomeObject> someMap = new HashMap<>();
...
<c:forEach begin="0" end="10" var="level">
    <c:out value="${someMap[level]}" />
</c:forEach>
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What Is More Scary?

This...

Now you see me
Now you see me

or seeing this the next day...

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Making Basic Food With Leica Q

The light in my kitchen is not very conducive to good photography - in part due to its harshness, but also its colour that just sucks. So when I made some boring (but healthy) food the other night, I decided to see how the Leica Q holds up under these horrible lighting conditions. Remember, all I had was a 28mm F1.7 lens... These images have been processed "to taste".

Cooking
Cooking
Cooking
Cooking
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Priceless

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