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    The Web is NOT the Internet

    by  • 10/8/2003 • geek • 1 Comment

    Okay, I’m used to your standard person in the world being confused by the media into believing that The Web is The Internet. I really am. It pisses me off a bit, but I can forgive Aunt Helga for confusing The Web and The Email. What I can’t easily forgive is my fellow techs that [...]

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    Blog spam…

    by  • 10/6/2003 • geek • 1 Comment

    Wow. Blog spam is new for me, but today I recieved a comment on a two year old entry… The text of the message was “Interesting” and the URL they provided for their home page was http:// www. discount-life-insurance .us Who the hell finds term life insurance interesting? Oh yeah, I excercised my anti-advertising perogative and deleted the [...]

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    Latest spam amusements…

    by  • 10/6/2003 • geek • 0 Comments

    These two emails came in during the past 24 hours Stay hard for 72 hours Wight Loss Nothing good as far as the contents of the emails – nothing there to speak of. The subjects are pure gold though… 1. Staying hard for 72 hours would be painful. This is the kind of thing people [...]

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    More canning adventures

    by  • 10/6/2003 • geek • 1 Comment

    Okay, next time I can peppers, I will wear gloves. I really thought that the only problems would stem from being dumb enough to touch my eyes while peeling hot peppers. Not so. My fingers burn. From what I can tell, I’ve basically got a chemical burn all over my hands. Ouch ouch. In other [...]

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    Playing with new toys…

    by  • 10/2/2003 • geek • 0 Comments

    I’ve been meaning to add a little link shortening service since metamark’s site went down… I mean, it’s something I use on a daily basis to read links to people over the phone. Saves my sanity for later when I need it more. I’ve added a small shortening system at that’s based on the one [...]

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    Freaks and their spam.

    by  • 10/1/2003 • geek • 0 Comments

    I loves me some spam… especially the spam that completely ignores reality… “I love your site! It’d be a great match for my site about printer ink cartridges!” Yeah, that’s my idea of a great site to link to. From: Pam Stevenson <pamstevenson@link-builder.com> Subject: foo.ca To: webmaster @ foo.ca Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 06:39:37 -0700 Message-id: [...]

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    Stop using @foo.ca addresses, jackass.

    by  • 9/28/2003 • geek • 0 Comments

    I’m sick of people using foo.ca in their return addresses when they post to newsgroups, etc. Feel free to sign up the yahoo.com address and the rogers.com address below for spam… I figure it’s only fair. Got an email from someone who didn’t alter the address when he hit reply to buy this freak’s binders. [...]

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    I’m spamming myself…

    by  • 9/25/2003 • geek • 0 Comments

    Okay, this is messed up… I checked my yahoo.com mail account to clear the spam out, and noticed I’ve got a bunch of bounces from someone sending spam as one of my addresses… Received: from D8PMK431.wilmsc01.tn.comcast.net ([68.52.65.178]) by priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20030913071920.UKID12099.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net @ D8PMK431.wilmsc01.tn.comcast.net> for <xinit@mybc.com>; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:19:20 [...]

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