i 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. [...]
Also tagged spamLinkedIn Zeus spam run targets prospective business marks – i’ve been getting this spam for three weeks and i haven’t picked up the ZeuS trojan yet… of course, i haven’t been clicking on any links in mail that crosses my desk labled as “spam”, and i have been reporting messages that claim to be from [...]
Also tagged spamThe City That Ended Hunger – Buckminster Fuller said that we, as a people, have posessed the technology for 50 years (and he said this almost 50 years ago) to create a world where nobody has to work to survive. Why Bother Working At A Job You Hate? and The RICH Economy are my attempts [...]
Also tagged big brother, bizarre, cannabis, geek stuff, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, imaginary pooperty, links, music, pictures, technology, the very big stupidso i’ve been doing some maintenance on sedentarysousa dot com. i uploaded the last of the changes, and refreshed the browser, only to get one of those “Firefox can’t find the server at www.sedentarysousa.com” messages. i restarted firefox. i flushed my DNS cache, and the DNS cache of my router. i rebooted the machine, and [...]
Also tagged bssb, malfunctioning computers, technology, web designi don’t use facebook for a large number of reasons. primary among these is that, despite the fact that a lot of my current friends are facebook members, there are certain people from my past that might want to get in touch with me, and i would prefer it a great deal if they did [...]
Also tagged bizarre, cannabis, drugs, i am a terrorist, links, livejournal, malfunctioning people, the very big stupidi’ve subscribed to a number of anti-evolutionist blogs (for entertainment purposes only, mind you). this one, from It’s Harvest Time typifies the combination of laughable, and frightening ignorance which i frequently find so disturbing that i question my own sanity in subscribing to wingnuts like this. i originally wrote “freaks like this” but then i [...]
Also tagged blasphemy, crazy people, evolution, jeezis, the very big stupidapparently either something was “stuck” in my computer that i deleted when i deleted and re-uploaded my blog yesterday, or something else is going on, because so far, the unauthorised authorisation dialogue that has been plaguing me for the past three days has now flown the coop… grr. it’s back again… 8/ it’s like it [...]
Also tagged bizarre, linux-maintenance, malfunctioning computersi’m fairly sure that the authorisation dialogue message that (still) won’t go away is somehow connected to my blog. when i shut down my computer yesterday, there was an authorisation dialogue box on my screen, but when i started up this morning it wasn’t there. so, i paid very close attention to what i started [...]
Also tagged bizarre, linux-maintenance, malfunctioning computersi went to the twitter web site and quickly determined that there wasn’t a way to connect with a tech-support drone who had any hope of giving me a cogent answer to my (primarily twitter-related) problem – one of the reasons i was so hesitant to get wrapped up in this whole thing to begin [...]
Also tagged bizarre, geek stuff, linux-maintenancei didn’t want to, but i signed up for a twitter account, allegedly so i could “keep in contact” with the previous host provider… no, this isn’t going to be another gripe about my host provider, although it starts out seeming that way, bear with me… of course, it didn’t work, and i don’t have [...]
Also tagged malfunctioning computers, picturesi am writing this from portland. to be specific, i am writing this from the back yard of my mother-in-law’s house. when i booted up my battery-powered laptop, it automatically found a network, and logged me in. it also found 3 other networks, for which i don’t have the password stored in my computer. my [...]
Also tagged big brother, corruption, geek stuff, i am a terrorist, malfunctioning computers, the very big stupidso i was forced, once again, to switch host providers. i was having a conversation with the (now) previous host provider, who said that there was nothing to worry about, and then, two days (literally) later, i get an email from him that says he’s going out of business – again… he gave me a [...]
Also tagged host servicesi was driving home this afternoon when i had a realisation: this society is screwed up, mentally, and it comes from the fact that there are two very powerful, but entirely opposite messages being propagated from a very early age. one message is that everyone is equal: things like the constitution, the bill of rights [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, important things to remember, the very big stupidCrabs provide evidence oil tainting Gulf food web – oil spill? what oil spill? wasn’t that two weeks ago? 8/ and, while we’re on the subject of oil, 2,487.5 mpg! Catchy headline unneccessary – “We find it incredibly thrilling to report mpg ratings that require a comma so we’re going to write it again: 2,487.5 [...]
Also tagged bizarre, blasphemy, dreams, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, jeezis, linkslet’s start off with a bit of double-you-tee-eff, shall we? Topless sunbather accused of sensuously rubbing in sun cream – keep in mind, this happened in italy, where it is legal for women to go topless on the beach everywhere, and not just in secluded areas. apparently, however, that was okay with the mother of [...]
Also tagged bizarre, blasphemy, cannabis, imaginary pooperty, jeezis, linksin a dramatic about face, flickr/yahoo actually admitted that memoriasdopac.org.br was, actually, abusing their priveledges as a flickr API subscriber, and cancelled their account. the thing that amuses me is the way they put it in the email they sent me: We’re very sorry for the previous email we sent to you. The site you [...]
Also tagged imaginary poopertyapparently Memory of the PAC is up to no good… it’s supposedly a “Program of Acceleration of the Growth (PAC) in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.” and they supposedly offer images as “the result of the first year of this documentation”… the only problem is that they’re apparently hotlinking flickr, because i was poking [...]
Also tagged imaginary pooperty, pictureson saturday, i was present when a post to freecycle south king county arrived, with an offer of a tunturi recumbent bike. naturally, i replied instantaneously, but i got no response. two days later, i replied again, but no response. two days later, i replied a third time, but again, no response. there has been [...]
Also tagged links, spamIncoming BP CEO: Time for ‘scaleback’ in cleanup – ⸘⸘⸘WHAT‽‽‽ maybe in his dreams… Swastika no longer viewed as Nazi symbol – reading just the headline, one would be inclined to think that the movement to Save the Swastika might be having some effect in enlightening people who think that (卐 ≡ nazi), but when [...]
Also tagged bizarre, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, imaginary pooperty, jeezis, links, swastikas卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍卐卍 the jewish anti-defemation league has declared that the swastika is a generalised symbol of hate. okay, that’s all well and good, the swastika not only represents naziism and so-called “white supremacy”, but it also represents Ganesha, the Lord of Removing Obstacles, and less than 100 years ago, and for 10,000 years prior to that, [...]
Also tagged i am a terrorist, swastikas, the very big stupidRarely Seen Pictures Of The Devastating Consequences Of The BP Disaster and You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill – i was gone for a week and the oil spill got worse… the problem i see is that they’re still referring to this as “The BP Disaster” when, in reality, [...]
Also tagged blasphemy, dead people, depression, frustration, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, jeezis, the very big stupidone of my articles was published on American Dream Or Bust a while ago, and i just got around to checking it out. some doofus named bill commented in such a way as to make him look like a complete, raving loony, or a “christian” racist, or, possibly, a combination of the two. i tore [...]
Also tagged articles, bizarre, i am a terrorist, links, the very big stupidMicrosoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar update also Cyber War: Microsoft a weak link in national security – this is why i don’t use windoesn’t: I should be the one to decide whether or not to install software on MY computer, regardless of how “important” or “necessary for correct functioning” it is. the fact [...]
Also tagged bizarre, geek stuff, gulf oil spill, i am a terrorist, links, windoesn'tUS drug war has met none of its goals – good ol’ gil’s working his way up the totem pole, and he’s still saying exactly the same thing he was saying ten years ago… i’d wonder about why nobody has taken any notice, but it would be a futile gesture. :/
Also tagged articles, cannabis, corruption, drugs, frustration, i am a terrorist, links, the very big stupidUPDATE: i got a comment from "steph at qwest", to which i am responding here. whether i actually got a response from a human being or not has yet to be determined, but either way, i feel like ranting again, so here goes. i called them at 5:30 pm yesterday, because internet had not been [...]
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