Weather Forces NASA to Delay Landing – Yahoo! News I’m trying not to worry, but I’ll be very relieved when Discovery lands tomorrow. The delay today is weather-related, but the insulation material that worked its way loose is still a big concern. This thumbnail shows astronaut Steve Robinson making a self-portrait with the reflective shield on his helmet during his historic trip to the underside of the Space Shuttle to check the heat shield and remove stray pieces of “gap filler” material. Like everyone, I hope they all make it down safe.
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Chicago Tribune | Yahoo Wants to Look for Music Okay, I have a Yahoo address, and I’ve been adding more and more content to “my” Yahoo page. And I like Internet radio, but can’t always play it successfully at work. So I checked out the new music service at Launch. First of all – ease of use. It’s very easy to start listening, with no firewall problems at work, so that’ll increase the chances that I’ll use it both at work and at home. Second, although I haven’t used the search feature much, I can see that I’ll probably use…
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Boing Boing: Have a Moon Day party Wed 7/20/05, share snapshots! I was thinking of throwig a last minute Moon Day barbecue and then found that we’ll be celebrating a friend’s birthday instead, so we’ll have 2 reasons to party. But I’ll still upload photos to the Flickr Moon-Day Party pool. 😉 Google‘s got a cute image today, too.
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My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely. It's still amusing to continue to get emails from our "staff" telling us our computers are "zombies." In light of the preceding link, does this mean that we're bound to get all medieval on the zombies' decaying asses? For the first time Blogula had a lot of…
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Oh, this is truly funny. I got a lot of fake "your computer has been compromised and is being used to send spam" emails. Why do I know they are fake? Here's a typical "alert." Dear user of midrange.com, Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of junk e-mail during this week. Obviously, your computer was compromised and now runs a trojaned proxy server. Please follow instruction in order to keep your computer safe. Sincerely yours, The midrange.com support team. Obviously, someone thinks they're being devious, because not so obviously, my husband David IS the midrange…
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My husband David, with the help of Mac gurus Steve and Fred, got me a reconditioned iPod. This will make my friend Kevin do the happy bum-wiggle footy dance discreetly at his desk. It’s a 4-gig silver iPod. We have to get a high-speed USB2 card for my computer, but David says that’s no big deal. So very soon I’ll be learning how to navigate iTunes and figuring out all kinds of other junk. And also, as a wacko NPR / AAR loyalist, I have to download the latest OK Go EP, because Adam Felbers says so. And as Adam…
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What kind of browser do you use? According to my stats (see below), it breaks down along fairly predictable lines. Unlike some blogs I could mention (like BoingBoing) Internet Explorer is still the browser of choice by a comfortable margin. Or is it? Are the Internet Explorers humans, or robots? Are they monkeyboys, or spiders, or an even lower form of life? Are the Mac users more highly evolved than the rest of us (that outta get a rise of their elitist plug-and-play asses)? 😉 So I’ve reached back into the grab-bag of yore and enabled a little poll. It’s…
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One victim, Kevin McCrary, a 56-year-old Manhattan business consultant, would not dispute that. After falling prey to a fake postal money order scheme, he said, "I couldn't reach around far enough to kick myself." Single and lonely, Mr. McCrary joined an international online dating site, Elitemate.com. In late January, he was contacted by someone claiming to be a young woman from Nigeria. She – or perhaps he, or even they, Mr. McCrary now concedes – went by the name of Ogisi Douglas. Their e-mail exchanges were barely a week old before the supposed Ms. Douglas asked Mr. McCrary for his…
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Spamhaus estimates that by the summer of 2006 spam will account for 95% of all e-mails sent and the problem will not be alleviated until the US acts to toughen its laws. British anti-spam laws are even more toothlessly useless than the US ones, apparently. 95%? Also according to Spamhaus, Australia has a strong anti-spam law. They report a reduction in overall spam, known spammers are keeping a lower profile, and at least one has left the country.
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Aw, I thought it would turn out to be a cute li’l car you could drive around real fast and pull capers with. Instead, it’s a search server that companies can use to speed things up for users trying to find stuff on their corporate website, which is packed so full of useless garbage that nobody can find what they want on it. A steal at only $2,995. Low miles, runs great. 1 year bumper-to-bumper warranty. Drive it home today (wheels sold separately).