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Thursday, May 31, 2001
It's official - Freeserve stink! Their good internet deal of 10 pounds for unlimited access including 10 pounds of calls is finishing New service costs 13 pounds and doesn't include voice calls ROLL ON FREE INTERNET!
I've been fiddling around with colour schemes and seeing as though I am as co-ordinated as a drunk 3 legged spider the Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator will be very useful. Look out for a new colour scheme soon! Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Woohoo - whoever had helsby.org forgot to re-register it - it's mine now! Check out whois where you can put your domain that you are interested in (or keywords) and it will show you all sites with that domain that are currently registered and the status - excellent for checking out an expired domain!
Well I've figured out where a whole of spam was coming from. I registered www.wheelockheathbaptist.org and you have to include a real email address. Someone's gone through the whois records and got this information - hence the spam! Ideas on how to combat this greatly received.
This is the way forward in Motor Sport Sites .... posted by Anonymous at 6:03 PM
Well a new webcam is on the way courtesy of Scan.co.uk and an extra 30Gb of disk and 128MB of ram which should hopefully speed the computer up. Watch this space for webcam photo's
Well I had a mole removed from my leg yesterday which needed stitches. Although I couldn't find a relevant link about this, I woke up this morning and thought OW! So here is a completely irrelevant link to Ow.com which is all about object programming. Monday, May 28, 2001
I posted a while back about some software called SentThere which supposedly silently tracks emails you have sent. Eventually I had a response from them and apparently there is an option to have a transparent gif. By the time I had received this information about two weeks had passed and I had deleted SentThere from the computer. When I tried to reinstall the software and test this claim it wouldn't install. Still reckon software is a waste of time and certainly detectable (as my email bouncer shows) Saturday, May 26, 2001
Woohoo! Finally managed to crack a problem with Zonealarm that had been bugging me for ages. Discovered that if you turn passive mode ON in the firewall section of my ftp program then ftp works fine through the internet! No more having to shut down ZoneAlarm all the time!
If you receive an email entitled "Badtimes", delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.
It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only 900 numbers. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink ALL your beer. FOR GOODNESS SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING!?!?!? It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all the while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporate undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. **WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN!! Courtesy of Lockergnome
If you are so vain you want a Barbie or Ken or Action man to look like you then look at Andgor's web site Friday, May 25, 2001
I've found a copy of HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy that runs on Java - (and don't forget your fluff) Thursday, May 24, 2001
Well hopefully this page will now have the option to open links in new windows. I had seen this on loads of the other blog sites (some of which didn't work) and eventually found one that did work and which was free to use, so enjoy. Thanks Randomwalks
Dear Mom,
Our scoutmaster told us all write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and worried. We are OK. Only two of our tents and four sleeping bags got washed away. Luckily, none of us got drowned because we were all up on the mountain looking for Jeff when it happened. Oh yes, please call Jeff's mother and tell her he is OK. He can't write because of the cast. I got to ride in one of the search & rescue jeeps. It was neat. We never would have found him in the dark if it hadn't been for the lightning. Scoutmaster Webb got mad at Hector for going on a hike alone without telling anyone. Hector said he did tell him, but it was during the fire so he probably didn't hear him. Did you know that if you put gas on a fire, the gas can will blow up? The wet wood still didn't burn, but one of our tents did. Also some of our clothes. Larry is going to look weird until his hair grows back. We will be home on Saturday if Scoutmaster Webb gets the car fixed. It wasn't his fault about the wreck. The brakes worked OK when we left. Scoutmaster Webb said that a car that old you have to expect something to break down; that's probably why he can't get insurance on it. We think it's a neat car. He doesn't care if we get it dirty, and if it's hot, sometimes he lets us ride on the tailgate. It gets pretty hot with 10 people in a car. He let us take turns riding in the trailer until the highway patrolman stopped and talked to us. Scoutmaster Webb is a neat guy. Don't worry, he is a good driver. In fact, he is teaching his brother Doug how to drive. But he only lets him drive on the mountain roads where there isn't any traffic. All we ever see up there are logging trucks. This morning all of the guys were diving off the rocks and swimming out in the lake. Scoutmaster Webb wouldn't let me because I can't swim, and Jeff was afraid he would sink because of his cast, so he let us take the canoe across the lake. It was great. You can still see some of the trees under the water from the flood. Scoutmaster Webb isn't crabby like some scoutmasters. He didn't even get mad about the life jackets. He has to spend a lot of time working on the car so we are trying not to cause him any trouble. Guess what? We have all passed our first aid merit badges. When Rob dove in the lake and cut his arm, we got to see how a tourniquet works. Also Bruce and I threw up. Scoutmaster Webb said it probably was just food poisoning from the leftover chicken. He said they got sick that way with the food they ate in prison. I'm so glad he got out and become our scoutmaster. He said he sure figured out how to get things done better while he was doing his time. I have to go now. We are going into town to mail our letters and buy bullets. Don't worry about anything. We are fine. Love, Dave Thanks Tim Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Added a link from Helsby dot Net to the Titus2 woman book available from amazon. Click on the link to see a thumbnail and order your own copy!
Due to the incredibly popular take up of web email (2) I've now removed this option and gone back to straight forwarding of email to a proper mail address. If you want web mail, then get your helsby.net address pointed to somewhere like hotmail As a result I've tidied up Helsby dot Net and made it load faster by changing where the headlines load. This should improve things immensely and sometime I'll get around to having a proper layout. Monday, May 21, 2001
Betcha didn't know that there was a colour scheme called Linen - see140 Color Names for more information! Tuesday, May 15, 2001
I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's sent to me because I forwarded their e-mail to five other people, (celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM" in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken - which is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their name to KFC.
Anyway, one day this friend went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive and infect all the electronics in his house if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into the coin return slot he got jabbed with an HIV infected needle around which was wrapped around a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital - the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you will have good luck but for 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway, the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms, but if you don't the owner of Proctor and Gamble will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you will get cancer from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your wife will develop breast cancer from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under her arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your e-mails forever. I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet Saturday, May 12, 2001
Hearing that Douglas Adams, the author of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy died on Friday, I discovered a nifty site on the BBC's site called H2G2. Very Adams-esque article on Choosing a Supermarket Checkout which is pretty relevant as Safeways was REALLY crowded today! Thursday, May 10, 2001
The Good news (for once) is that I have finally cracked my "backup college work" plan I've been trying to get working. My idea was to zip all files from the floppy and email it to myself as automatically as possible without installing any software on the college machines. Thanks to Igor at 7-Zip I have managed to obtain a standalone command line zip program that uses long file names. The file can be downloaded here Using Automail I can mail the zip file to myself (although I have to hit NO on an registration nag screen!). This was the only package I could find that would mail an attachment without gobbledegooking it! Again, if you know of any others that are freeware then let me know.
The bad things:- My tv popped this morning when I switched it off - one BANG and no more picture so if you are reading this and know why this has happened, get in contact with me please!
Bad news for those of you who use poboxes (aka netforward) who are now asking for $10 a year to provide email forwarding and webforwarding. So if you send mail to my poboxes address, it will soon bounce as I won't be paying for it as I now have my own domain :-)
Well I spent most of yesterday tracking down, eradicating and blocking the Homepage virus which we received from our insurance company (of all places). For more details see CNET. What made it more difficult was a fire alarm in the middle of the process! The really annoying thing is that I didn't get any alerts from the anti-virus vendors and had not heard about it in the news or anything even though it had peaked on Tuesday according to Mcaffee! Only today *after* the event am I hearing about it in the news, on the web etc! ANNOYING! Monday, May 07, 2001
Its my sisters Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yet again she does not have to work on her birthday - lucky thing
I heard about some software that allegedly tracks emails. All it does is put a button image linking back to their site which would be downloaded using a html email client. Looking through the documentation it implies that the email is secretly tracked so the recipient doesn't know. On their How-It-Works page they quote a user saying "The technology is amazing! I can use SentThere without anyone ever knowing!" - Craig Packard, SentThere User. Well either they have changed the way it works, or Craig is pretty stupid as the screenshot below clearly shows a picture (the tracking mechanism) telling the user that the email is tracked (and making it too late to actually stop it unless you have filtering software on).  An email has been sent to the company today asking for clarification. and by the way i've disabled all mails sent using this mechanism <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.wc.cc.va.us/services/news/channel.asp?c=http://blogspace.com/rss/feeds/blogify?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.clara.co.uk%2Fhelsby%2Fblogger.html&public=1></SCRIPT> |
