Month: July 2005

Creative ways to get away with child labor and be excited about it!

While I typed my previous post, one of the nasty things tried popping up a window. Adwatch blocked it 2100 times and its still going!

I’ve been defiled! My home page is now “about:blank”! I have become one of my customers. Yes, my browser is hijacked! I think this is the BrillantDigital one that is so stinking nasty. Certainly explains the sudden performance issues that had me rebooting. I thought the streaming was killing my machine (could have been the open port on 8081 that let this happen but I can’t be sure). I also had a couple of worms. Looks like I may spend the morning cleaning my machine instead of getting work done.

1. Remove old adaware
2. Run Spybot Search N Destory
3. Update Avast
4. Run CWShredder (wow! CWShredder moves around a lot. Used to be by intermute but Trendmicro is maintaining it) and HijackThis
5. Reboot after Spybot’s removals and Avast’s prompting for a reboot.
6. Install new adaware
7. Launch Trendmicro’s Housecall
8. Run Avast
9. Run Spybot
10. Run Adaware
11. After my computer beeped 5000 times (the number of popups blocked by Adwatch) I rebooted.
12. Restarted Avast scan
13. 2nd Ad-aware scan
14. Checked Add/Remove programs for offending software
15. Removed View Point
16. Used Regedit to manually inspect registry..looks good
17. Totally afraid to open Internet Explorer or Outlook..thank goodness for Firefox!
18. Recovered Homepage (no longer about:blank) but IE won’t remember cookies implying that something still has me. Performance on machine down.
19. Downloaded and installed MS Antispy(been needing to evaluate it anyway)
20. Oh, the new version of adwatch blocks tracking cookies ergo my website info wasn’t saving. Think I’m in the clear now.

Accidentally slept last night.

Woot got a make-over!

Let’s talk about nipples!

After laughing at Michael Crook’s beating on Fox news I thought I’d canter over to Forsake The Troops and see what the fuss was all about. Only to find this message:

This hateful site has been removed courtesy of:

USAF Forums at www.3C0X1.net
&
www.3GuysHosting.com

Click HERE to see the former owner (Michael Crook) owned by Sean Hannity.

I found this response offensive enough to draft the following email to their customer service. Hopefully someone reads it. I fear the kind of people that run www.3GuysHosting.com are the same people that will commit hate crimes in the name of freedom and allow the current administration to drag us decades further backwards. The attitudes represented by 3GuysHosting.com are not so much different than the businessmen that donned white hoods and burned crosses in the name of creating a lawful society.

"This hateful site has been removed courtesy of:"

I disagree with Michael Crook. But I find your censorship with such judgmental arrogance to be equally offensive and un-American.

I believe it would do you well to think long and hard about what type of society you are building for future Americans because right now with acts such as yours we are not practicing democracy and freedom.

Before you preach to me about your "freedom to run your business the way you like" let me remind you that you chose the words "This hateful site has been removed courtesy of:" not "Due to a violation of our decency policy…" or "Due to bandwidth restrictions…"

People in positions of power, such as yourselves, have the obligation to yield that power with responsibility.

Ok Michael Crook. One, don’t stammer. Two, if you are going to be on national television, get a hair cut. Three, ashen gray skin means people aren’t hearing your words because they are asking themselves "just how long has this guy been dead?" Four, cucumbers on the eyes. Five, day spa not night club before going on national television. And most importantly, six, think before you speak. Fox news bats one home.

If you are in Knoxville and play drum or bass, Barry needs your help. Go see the show!

Somebody slow down the blasted clock!

Student: Do you take the long road or the short road?
Master: Do you want to be profitable or good?

So today is beautiful! The rains come tonight or tomorrow. I want to be working in the yard. I have to help get Sarah off to camp this afternoon. Things floating around in my mind:

• Sarah to camp (4-5 hours)
• Clean house
• Finish work (roughly 10 hours) for client 1 and call client 1 today
• 8 hours work for Client 2
• Clean office, clean clean clean
• Spend 8 hours on MS Money, Quickbooks and TurboTax
• Do a home repair
• Spend quality time with family

I suppose some choices shall have to be made.

(note: if the picture above is offline or not updating then the stream is offline too)

If on this beautiful Sunday you have nothing else to do, for fun and to see how well it works, I’ve turned on a streaming video of me programming. Watch for the head scratch, the amazing nose pick, astouding coffee drinking, the grimmace, absolute consternation, the occasional grin (probably reading your blog), and for the lucky few with good timing–the laundry swap! (warning! You may see my back side during the laundry swap. I’ve choosen particular tight jeans today for the viewing pleasures of the ladies)

Enjoy the monotony!

Student: Is there a supreme being?
Master: What does He say?

We took the kids out to the park yesterday to meet up with the grandparents, aunt, uncle, and two cousins. Everyone had a blast. Molly came along and in 5 kicks ate a soccer ball that I purchased on the way. I let her off leash for the soccer and she was perfectly well behaved. The law is that the dog has to "be under owners control" not "on a leash"; I had that discussion with some other dog owners walking their dog without a leash who said some people get rather indignant about it. We had only 3 incidents.

1. While I was eating I had the lease under foot and Molly bolted to see another puppy. We had already met and the owners didn’t seem concerned.
2. Once my nephew threw the soccer ball while I was not paying attention and I lost the leash
3. And a barker came through the park. Molly growled and barked but chilled after we let the two see each other. I had good control over Molly but gave them much opportunity to figure one another out.

For much of the time Molly wore her leash but laid on the ground between her people with no one holding the leash. I was very impressed with her behavior.

Noah climbed the outside of the tall enclosed slide. He’s a broken arm waiting to happen but makes me grin because he is such a boy and doing so many of the same things I did at his age.

Tommy chose to stay home. I think he likes it because he can eat, play electronics and do basically anything he wants without fear of someone getting on his case.

Sarah enjoys this old banana board (skinny skate board) that I had stashed in the garage so she was puttering all over the park while the 3 year old sister and cousin chased her.

The younger two were coddled.

A great time was had by all.