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Piss ME off. I HATE IE and never use it, but use it less than 1% of the time to test stuff. I was trying to see if an MT login problem I am having happened in other browsers (I use Mozilla). Well, I open my MT interface in IE and what do I see???? Shortcut buttons for bolding, underlining and LINKS!!! Sure would be nice if that freaking showed up in Mozilla! I still will NOT use IE, microsatansoft can kiss my ass.

UPDATE: Thanks to Asa for suggesting some links in the comments for a solution to my above complaint! I have not tried them yet but I will later tonight.

here’s one
and
here’s another

I am so happy! My sushi stationary stationery came today! LJC had mentioned once before about “sushi stationery” by Fred Flare but I wasn’t impressed, as it just looks like notecards packaged in a sushi to-go box. So I did a websearch and found actual notecards / stationery w/ sushi ON it. Here is a picture of them and you can order them from SuzieCards.com. Right now they are not on the website, but you can email her and order them. She personalizes them for free, ships quickly, and accepts PayPal and credit cars. I just LOVE them, they are so groovy and they’re nice, thick paper.

I am trying to help a friend fight spam. I am 100% spam-free at home thanks to my own diligence. But this guy is already getting a ton of spam. I want to recommend the best spam-filtering software (he’s just an AOL type, so nothing that requires a techie mind), but I don’t know what the best is, since I have never had to research it for myself.

Can anyone recommend something? I’ve heard that SpamAssassin is the best but what I don’t know is does that run on a pc or on the mail server? This guy just needs something on his pc.

Thanks for any suggestions! Please leave suggestions in the comments or email me at

It’s now a law that libraries have to install filters on internet computers. As we all (should) know by now, these filters filter out stuff that is “clean”, either by accident or for political reasons of the software manufacturers.

I don’t even know where to begin. Read Marmot’s commentary over at MentalPutty.com. Frankly I could not have said it better myself.

I did the Brainworks Test (which was via FortySomething.CA) and my brain usage profile is:
Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 44%
Right : 55%
I found this site and the resulting analysis interesting. It’s analysis described me well!

I’ve been linking alot, but not talking alot. What’s been going on w/ me? Not much, that’s probably why I have not been SAYing much. Lemme see what I can dig up for the curious…

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If you are looking for an inexpensive digital camera that is still good for the price, check this out: Aiptek PocketCam X: 3mp, flash, lcd screen. Aiptek makes the pencam that I have, it’s “el-cheapo” but really good quality for the money. It’s about $119US.

UPDATE: Although this is a great little camera and Aiptek has a good reputation for great inexpensive cams, it seems this model has had a lot of problems and has been pulled. We’ll see if they offer it again or a better one. Here is a good site for tinycams including a review of some cams: http://www.geocities.com/charles_islas/. And of course, the very good yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tinycams/

I was reading The Toronto Star online as I am sick of cnn, etc. and noticed in the ubiquitous Harry Potter news story that the kids were reading a book w/ a different cover.

While at Best Buy yesterday I noticed that the book was blue but the kids in the TorStar story were reading a book w/ a different cover.

I wonder why the covers are different in Canada.

(US) (CA)

UPDATE: Yeah, apparently each country gets a different cover and ALSO there is an “adult” cover which “appeals to adults”

There has been so much rain this last week, gulleys are full, our lake is swollen, streets often flood, and there are a million baby frogs everywhere, you can hear them! (web photo) Click here (123k), and another one here (485k) to hear WAV files of tons of baby frogs in the night. Kinda sounds like aliens! In the background if you think you hear a radio, it’s just that we were at a stoplight and a guy pulled up next to us and had his radio on in his car. I recorded this w/ the “Voice Recorder” on my Sony Clie Nz90.

MentalPutty.com is a good read… insightful.

Ok, I’ve had it: I’ve decided. I must have the Sony Cyber-Shot dsc-u60.

Every URL I copy/paste dies within a day, it must be a cookie thing. So go HERE SonyStyle.com and run a searh for DSC-U60.

Anyway, I found a new page that shows THE BACK of the camera, and it’s so cool!

ANDDDDD! It has the words I’ve been looking for for a LONG TIME: ‘Its unique vertical orientation (designed for one-handed operation) and fast start up time (less than a second) ensure that the user remains a part of the activity even when taking a picture.” WHOO HOO! That is the one thing that has been elusive; a fast startup time.

The D60 has a fast startup time but it’s heavy and expensive (don’t want to take it EVERYwhere), and the Aiptek Mini Pencam has a fast startup time but is relatively low res, and won’t take pictures in low light, no flash, etc. It looks like I’ve finally found a GOOD camera that does not cost too much and is durable AND has a quick startup time!

That darn startup time, I have the canon digital elph and it is GOOD, and it is SMALL, but it’s startup time (AFTER you take it out of it’s protective camera case becuase it is not rugged and was expensive) is probably five whole seconds. I have missed SO MANY shots w/ that thing.

Anyway, I think the sony cyber-shot dsc-u60 is going to be a great camera.

People in China arrested for “spreading rumors about SARS” via text messaging on their cell phones. via www.SlashDot.org

This whole SCO vs. Linux thing has me confused. The more I read, the less I understand.

Am I the only one who goes to slashdot and feels that they are speaking a language all their own? It’s like Greek to me. I thought I was a techie nerd.

It’s after noon and I am still in my jammies. I needed a day to do nothing and sleep in. I didn’t even get to sleep in last weekend. I’m hungry but too lazy to cook and WAY too lazy to shower, get dressed and go out to eat. So I’m drinking a cold Starbucks Frappuccino MOCHA. Liquid breakfast. Slim-Fast eat your heart out.

It’s so cute how my kitty Sasha is always near me. Usually I am on the laptop on the couch in the family room in front of the tv. But last night I set up in the dining room and am too lazy to move back. Sasha is right by me here in the adjoining living room. So cute!

What should I do for lunch? Eggs? Grilled cheese? Go to subway?

What music makes you nostalgic?

Tonight, for me, it’s heavier rock. Strange maybe, but there’s a reason.

I turned on the new “Real Rock” station on the radio for a change. I keep hearing the same songs repeatedly on the top 40 station, so I figured I’d try something different.

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Not ONE person on my IM list is online right now. It’s only 1:16am, what gives?

Oh wow. Ok, so I own a web design busines. I also sub-contract for a larger tech company to do all their web-design. The tech company needed a Linux guru, so they called me up to see if my M. could help them out, since he is a super-guru. He agrees to call the client up and try to help him out.

Well, after beginning to try to figure out the Linux / network problem he discovers that this guy is a big-time SPAMMER!!!!! AAAAAGH!!!!!! He had to look up the domain and recognized it, did a quickie google search and discovered that sure enough this company is blocked by most spam-filtering software. (I think that’s how it went, anyway.)

So he’s already agreed to help out and now it’s like nails-on-a-chalkboard-creepy to be helping this guy. At one point M could not get to this guys network. I assumed it was because the guy sends thousands of emails an hour and had his pipe clogged. So M calls the guy and the guy says that it should be fixed now, that they had just had a bunch of Denial Of Service attacks. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I find that hysterical! He’s the big enemy, one of the kings of spam, and he’s being DOS’d… and my M is trying to help him! Oh gawd.

Oh well, I found it funny. Funny? It’s sad.

M was listening to the song “The Last Resort” by the Eagles (lyrics) and came into the dining room (where I am w/ the laptop tonight) and says “gee, this song is particularly poignant tonight!” I was like “Huh?” and he said that the song is about how when america was first found everyone was like “oh wow, come over here, it’s paradise” but now it’s all paved and crime-ridden, etc. M said that the song made him think of the Internet; how it was (is) so awesome and big and you can do so many neat things… and then spammers came along.

Overheard today at Subway:

(customer says to the guy making the sub…) “Oh no… can you scrape off the mayonnaise that you put on the meat and spread it on the bread? If you put it on the bread it makes the bread moist, that’s the way they usually make it.”

My god my god my god get a LIFE! I thought *I* was anal!

Courtney over at GeekyChick.net is going to do a 5k charity walk and needs contributions. Let’s all pitch in a dollar or two (literally, every little bit helps). It’s for a cause that is close to home for her. Please go read her blog-post about it: here.

M had to disconnect the hub & plug his laptop directly into the dsl so I am offline. Life comes to a screeching halt.

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Found a neat thing, “The Letter Writing Project, dated 1998. Still interesting though. In this museum there are three writing stations complete with stationery. You can rite letters and then either leave them to be mailed or leave them there to be read by the general public. You can write to living people or dead, write the letter you always meant to write but didn’t. I suppose since the article is dated 1998 it may not be around anymore, maybe it is, I don’t know. But it’s very interesting nonetheless.

Happy Fathers Day, Dad. I know I don’t talk to you much, but I do think of you and miss you. I wish you were still here.