To keep your data from being defaced and/or destroyed when logging on to the internet when using a Windows computer, you MUST have the following (this is a bare minimum, not what you “should” have) unless you want your computer to be taken over my the miscreants of the computer world:
- Firewall – IE: Blackice, XP’s firewall (free but sucky), hardware firewall
- Pop-up blocker – IE: GoogleToolbar, Mozilla’s blocker, Earthlink’s blocker
- Spyware blocker – IE: Ad Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy
- Virus Scanner – Norton, Symantec, McAfee, AVG anti-virus
- Spam blocker – IE: Spamkiller, your ISP, Cloudmark
You’ve got to install, configure and know (at least in general) how each of the program works so that it doesn’t ruin your internet experience. This sucks. I remember when the internet was a happy, smiling place.
I just opened a new tube of Colgate toothpaste. I squeezed the tube…. and I squeezed the tube. Then I squeezed it some more. I looked in the hole to verify I was really going to get what I was expecting. It was on it’s way… So I squeezed a bit more. And then something happened, toothpaste started coming out of the hole. I’d guess that this 8.2 ounce net weight container is 20% air.
Just about all single-serving yogurt containers hold about 20% less than they could. Go ahead and pick up a Yoplait container at the store. Flip it over and look at the underside. The bottom of the yogurt containing portion of the container is a full 1/4 of an inch recessed inside the packaging. This is obvious when the package is upside-down. But then it sits right-side-up on a table, the 6 oz Yoplait container looks to be the same size as the 8 oz Dannon container.
I was chatting with Dave B tonight. He reminded me of the great time the two of us had at Pub 199. Pub 199 has this permanent special… call it a specialty… $10 gets you either a lobster and potato or a steak and potato. So we sat down like the guys we are and ordered. The food was guy-good. Good steak. Good lobster. Good potato. Ugh! Ambiance: stuffed beavers, moose, bear, and a deer with Christmas lights in his antlers. Ugh, good! We sat, we ate, we talked, we enjoyed. After the meal, we sat and talked about the world. And then a funny thing happened. We were hungry again. So we ordered another meal. I just (just, ha!) had a heaping bowl of cheese fries. Dave had the other dinner special! All is well in the world.
After dinner, what did we do? We went to a diner for pie! And Dave only barely kept me… and us… from going in to a teen roller rink. He told me tonight, “We’d probably get put in the same cell.” Ha!
I’m going away for the weekend, airplane in tow! Wee!
Bye!
I was passing by the TV in the kitchen a few minutes ago when I heard this guy on CNBC yelling at the camera, ranting about “disinflation”. He had to yell because he had the New York Stock Exchange trading floor ambient room noise piped into his glassed-in cubby at full volume.
One or two of three things is true: 1) I’m dumb and/or stubborn for not accepting this term as it stands. 2) He’s an idiot for using the term once, a fucking idiot for using it 3 times in one interview or 3) People that actually listen to this drivel are stupid.
Here’s an idea of a blog viewer bookmarks. This will hold the place of someone viewing a person’s blog.
IE:
8-29-03 [click here to set the bookmark on this spot]
Today’s entry blah blah
blah blah
8-28-03 [click here to set the bookmark on this spot]
Here’s a new entry
8–27-03 [click here to set the bookmark on this spot]
Another entry in my blog
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When you click on the link, the script sends a cookie to the person viewing the blog. This cookie contains a #name with the exact location of where the viewer clicked. The next time the viewer goes to this page, a script reads the cookie and jumps down to the appropriate place in the blog.
This kind of bookmarking is most appropriate for blogs that get very long. For instance, someone that clears their blog once a month (like me)
Simple and elegant. Now somebody write it! All I ask for is an “Original concept” byline.
Wee! Check out the videos of these itty bitty Superfly electrics
My senator wrote back to me today (via email) about how he’s co-sponsoring federal anti-spam legislation:
Dear Mr. Sonko,
Thank you for contacting me about spam. I appreciate hearing from you on this issue.
The growth of the Internet and the increased use of e-mail have led to the emergence of “spam,” or electronic junk mail. Numerous marketers have begun to send unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) over the Internet. Because this marketing technique is easier and less costly than traditional direct marketing techniques such as direct mail solicitations, e-mail accounts worldwide have been deluged with this unsolicited correspondence.
Spam is not just a nuisance, but it can also bring consumers higher charges for the Internet as service providers are forced to continually upgrade their systems to handle the increased traffic. Spam filters built into MSN and Hotmail servers, for example, block 2.4 billion messages a day. While proponents of UCE insist it is a legitimate marketing technique that is protected by the First Amendment, Congress should enact reasonable restrictions.
Although 35 States have anti-spam laws, there is no federal law specifically concerning spam. Consequently, I have co-sponsored CAN-SPAM, the “Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act” (S. 877), which would do the following: create criminal penalties for the transmission with knowledge and intent of spam messages with header information that is materially false or misleading; prohibit deceptive subject headings; require a functioning return address for the message recipient to submit a request that he or she not receive future messages; require clear identification that a message is an advertisement; and require that message recipients have an opportunity to opt-out, and for the sender to provide a valid physical mail address.
Please be assured that I will continue to support practical, sensible regulations that reduce unwanted spam while taking the concerns of legitimate, honest retailers into account.
Thanks again for contacting me.
Senator Frank Lautenberg
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/
I designed a wine label for my father and his friends’ wine. It looks pretty darn sharp! There were two people standing next to the golf bag on the right; dad didn’t like them, so I rubbed them out! Mu hahah! I wield the power of Paint Shop Pro!
I’ve still got to get the quote by Franklin translated into French. No French wine maker would ever sink to placing non-French words on a bottle. Shara has promised to put her Francophile talents to work for me.
Updated Rant about “under God”
Check my Rants page.
Went flying with my neighbor, John E. and his grandson. He flew great for a 6 year-old!
