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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, web designi 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 [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, linksif, 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 [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, hybrid elephant, malfunctioning computersso – 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 [...]
Also 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 [...]
Also tagged frustration, hybrid elephant, paypal 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 [...]
Also tagged enlightenment, hybrid elephanti’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 [...]
Also tagged hybrid elephantdespite 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 [...]
Also tagged genealogy, 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged links, 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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, malfunctioning people, picturesin 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 [...]
Also tagged moisture festivali 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 [...]
Also tagged linux-maintenanceso “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 [...]
Also tagged linux-maintenance, linux-upgrades, malfunctioning computersi’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 [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, 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 [...]
Also tagged geek stuff, incense, pupplesIn 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 [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, links, quotesbut by monday there’s a possibility that nobody would be able to read about it… Internet Shut Down in Egypt – “But Biden Says Mubarak is No Dictator” what would you call someone who deliberately shuts off the only means of communicating with the outside that most of his – dissatisfied – constituents have? is [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, links, technologylisten to this while reading the following post: Have Sex and Die! from Mothra! an opera about insects by Pliny Keep i got a “connect” message from LinkedIn today, for someone i know only vaguely. i thought about it for a long time before i acceded to their request, and almost immediately i discovered that [...]
Also tagged fezorocity, geek stuff, technologysince geico made their xtranormal commercial, things have changed: apparently the characters and sets that used to be free are no longer free, which includes the character and the set in chapter 6. i don’t know if this is because they have introduced new free characters, or if it is because they changed their business [...]
Also tagged tina choppso i just thought i’d put it out there… since, apparently, some people just won’t take a hint… every spam comment that is submitted to my blog is marked as spam (which is why it doesn’t immediately appear as a comment: for that, i have to approve your comment, which won’t happen if it’s spam) [...]
Also tagged spamThink US politics are absurd? Brazilians elect actual clown to Congress – brazil has its collective shit together in more than two ways that i’ve noticed recently… maybe american politicians should be paying more attention to the brazilians… 60% of countries will be bankrupt within 50 years – the only hopeful thing about the future [...]
Also tagged bizarre, blasphemy, brazil, corruption, i am a terrorist, jeezis, links, technologyi don’t often admit to hating pretty much anything, but i will admit, whole-heartedly, to hating spam with a white-hot passion… i’m going to use this as an example of how i determine something which is not labled spam, is actually spam. the following is a text-dump of the entire message, with the headers intact. [...]
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