so i got this fine potted meat food product spam message today, which read: Hello, We are in the process of promoting a website about drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Would you be open to the idea of placing a text link ad on this page: http://www.hybridelephant.com/K2.php, or were they just trolling for pages whose titles [...]
Tagged rants, spami had my first, tentative experiences with SAAS over the past couple of days, and i can say, without hesitation, that if this is the direction computing is headed, i’ll get off the train here, because SAAS SUCKS!! i was using the RVSiteBuilder that comes with my cPanel-powered web-hosting package. while cPanel does a very [...]
Tagged geek stuff, rants, web designi have never liked paypal, and i have been trying for quite a while, to find a way to get around having to use their services for ANYTHING… and this is exactly the reason why: PayPal Requires Destruction Of Antique Violin I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer [...]
Tagged paypal sucksi subscribe to a lot of news sources by RSS. usually, most feed-generators give the author one of three choices for their feed: post the entire article (which i do), post the first few sentences of the article and provide a link to the rest, or provide only the title and a link. i really [...]
Tagged geek stuff, links, rantsif, by “interesting” you mean “screaming in mind-wreaking terror”… i got cracked* this morning. about 2:00 in the morning, someone compromised a “soft” password on one of my wordpress sites and defaced every PHP index page that they could find… when i started up my computer this morning, i was confronted by this, rather than [...]
Tagged geek stuff, hybrid elephant, malfunctioning computers, rantscontinued… spamcop is working, however… when i send email from me at salamandir dot info to a friend of mine, whose email address i provide (spreznib at hybridelephant dot com) it bounces with the following message: ERROR: Your message could not be delivered. The mail server generated the following error message: This message was created [...]
Tagged malfunctioning computers, malfunctioning people, qwest sucksso – naturally – i haven’t heard anything about whether or not the email that i received from "paypal@paypal.com" really was from paypal or not, and the person i talked to last week said that i would hear from the fraud department in two to three days, so i decided to call and see if [...]
Tagged paypal sucks, rantspaypal’s response was to have me send the spam message to spoof at paypal dot com, which, if my previous experiences are anything to go by, is the last thing i will ever hear about this message… oh well… my car stereo experienced an electronic hiccough yesterday, but taking out the suspect fuse to determine [...]
Tagged miscellaneous, paypal sucksi got another email, purportedly from “service at paypal dot com”… this time, the subject line was “Notification of PayPal Account Transaction”… usually, if paypal sends me a “Notification of PayPal Account Transaction” i get another email (from myself) with details from my web site about the transaction that just occurred. this time, i just [...]
Tagged paypal sucksi got an email message, purportedly from “paypal at paypal dot com” with a subject line that read “Keeping Your Account in Good Standing”… if you’ve ever had the displeasure of actually calling paypal, you’ll probably recognise their “security pointers” that they broadcast over the telephone while you’re on hold, which say things like “an [...]
Tagged paypal suckshybrid elephant had $0.00 in its paypal account (which is normal, i HATE paypal, and you’ll see why in a minute). on 10th february, 2011, after someone made a $22.00 payment for something that they decided they didn’t want, i refunded $22.00 to that person, and had a $0.00 balance when i was finished. i [...]
Tagged frustration, hybrid elephant, paypal sucks, rantsso i sent an email message this morning to a friend of mine, who has an @hybridelephant.com email address. i sent a very similar message to him yesterday, which got through without a problem. today, i got a “Mail Delivery Failure” notice, one minute after sending the message, with the following piece of insightful information: [...]
Tagged qwest sucksthe other day i was “confronted” by a customer (it’s sort of difficult to say that it was a “confrontation” in the normal sense of the word, because the entire interaction took place over email, but bear with me, because it was a confrontation) concerning the fact that, along with the religious items and incense [...]
Tagged enlightenment, hybrid elephant, rantsi’ve been getting A LOT of international orders over the past couple of weeks (i.e. 4, in the past two weeks). this is unusual for a couple of reasons: one is that i very rarely get four orders – period – in that amount of time, and the other is that it’s unheard of for [...]
Tagged hybrid elephant, rantsdespite my interest in geneaology, i usually don’t just arbitrarily subscribe to things like ancestry dot com and genealogy dot com. however, i have recently subscribed to both of them, because i finally got around to uploading a GEDCOM file of my research (8 generations). almost immediately they send me this message that says i [...]
Tagged genealogy, rants, spami found out what is wanted with BSSB web site… it turns out that she likes the “fold-up navigation menus” and wants them on the BSSB site… and, when the BSSB site has enough content to permit “fold-up navigation menus”, that’s what she’ll get. of course, i’m in charge of web design… the actual content [...]
Tagged rants, tina chopp, web designi suppose it had to happen some time… i guess i am destined to be one of those stubborn old codgers who won’t give up their physical hard disks and wired connections when everyone else has gone to the cloud, but you’ve got to draw the line somewhere, and turning my perfectly good, perfectly functional [...]
Tagged links, rants, technologyif the video doesn’t load so a while ago i got the idea to make animations that were reciting the books of tina chopp… i actually went so far as to create the first 6 cantos of the book of children… before xtranormal changed how things are done… i had to buy “xtranormal points” in [...]
Tagged rants, tina chopp, videosso far, the rapture hasn’t happened… i’m preparing to have a big ol’ laugh at harold camping’s expense when the day is over… in other news, i got a new unauthorised authorisation dialogue, like the one i got back in august of last year, but it’s for a different site… the site, LEAP.cc, is the [...]
Tagged malfunctioning computers, malfunctioning people, pictures, rantsin 2007, i did the programs for the moisture festival. since then, they consistently have not found a printer that does as good a job for as little money as i did. now they’re almost to the point of admitting it. the reason? apparently i don’t play for the fremont philharmonic! kiki, the band leader [...]
Tagged moisture festival, rantsi am now running amarok 2.4.0! and the fact that it still has the same bug that 2.3.2 had, and appears to have introduced a new bug where the track-bar in the transport controls apparently doesn’t work, is irrelevant to the point that i then had to rescan my entire (200gb) music collection, and all [...]
Tagged linux-maintenance, rantsso “lucid lynx” appears to work well… which is to say, once i had got it installed, it hasn’t crashed or done anything non-computer-like… dolphin (one of the file managers that i’ve been able to find) doesn’t work any longer… i invoke it in various different ways, but it doesn’t show any files (fortunately, i [...]
Tagged linux-maintenance, linux-upgrades, malfunctioning computers, rantsi’ve been on a crash course about video conversion and coding for web presentation of video format files over the past three days. i’ve learned a lot, but i still have a lot more to learn, and i’m sort of wondering why i need to know this crap stuff… i’ve currently got a video on [...]
Tagged geek stuff, rants, web designi made my monthly backup, which is now in the process of downloading. i’ve discovered that, pretty commonly, and regardless of platform, if i download using http, i get about ¾ of the way through the download, and it just ends, for no obvious reason, but if i download using ftp, everything appears on the [...]
Tagged geek stuff, incense, pupples, rantsIn the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet [...]
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