President Lincoln's Second Inagural Address, March 4, 1865
    posted by Greg at 6:11 PM


[ Tuesday, September 11 ]
  Then along comes something that reminds us of what's really important.
    posted by Greg at 10:53 AM

  There is a little MSIE plugin that is raising concern amongst web site owners. TopText is a small plugin that creates yellow links (like smart tags) on web pages when it finds certain keywords. The keywords are purchased by the highest bidder. The issue of defacing websites with advertising links that were not placed there by the site owner has been beaten to death already.

There is another issue that bothers me. It's the download page on ezula.com. (http://www.ezula.com/ezula/Download/autoLoad.html)

Do NOT go there unless you intend to install the software. It will install itself automatically without so much as a "may I?" If not for the tiny icon in the task bar, I would have had no idea that anything was being installed. How long will it be until a virus begins to make the rounds in this way? It already has. I would say that TopText is a virus.

To their credit they do redirect you to a page that informs you that the installation was a success, even though you may not have asked for an installation.

As usual, Mac users are the fortunate ones.

For more information on how to rid your website of this intrusion, visit http://www.searchking.com/ezulakiller/ or http://www.cexx.org/toptext.htm
    posted by Greg at 9:57 AM


[ Monday, September 10 ]
  This may even have a purpose someday, but for now it's just plain cool. Link to it and watch it grow!
    posted by Greg at 3:00 PM


[ Thursday, September 6 ]
  You can talk all you want about Smart Tags, MS-TCP/IP, and Passport. The bottom line is who wouldn't trust this man? He's a lean, mean, rock and roll machine.
    posted by Greg at 12:39 PM


[ Wednesday, September 5 ]
  You thought the X10 pop-under ads were annoying? I think this one breaks the record for intrusiveness. (via Hodgepodge)
    posted by Greg at 9:01 AM


[ Tuesday, September 4 ]
  Some things are not worth remembering. Now that I think about it, some are not even worth mentioning. Forget I even brought it up.
    posted by Greg at 4:04 PM


[ Sunday, September 2 ]
  I never open email attachments from people I don't know. I have McAfees' VShield running at all times, and I try my best to keep up with the latest DAT files. I brush between meals and I don't run with scissors. Still, the SirCam virus is starting to get on my nerves. It has not infected my machine, but I get sent at least two-dozen copies of the virus every day. All of them from one person. I've written him a nice message, informing him of the state of his computer in the nicest possible way. When that didn't work I sent a nice polite email to his service provider, BellSouth. No help there.

Fortunately, M$ did manage to get a few things right when they wrote Outlook. I can set it up to trigger a series of events when I get email from a certain person. First, we dump the message in the trash. Second, we fire off a polite email reply to the ignorant sender of the virus(tm). This method assumes that the ignorant sender of the virus(tm) 1) pays attention to his email, and 2) can actually read. At least one of those assumptions is incorrect, since I am now receiving messages from Postmaster@Bellsouth.com stating: "This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: The user(s) account is temporarily over quota." At this point, I'm thinking 'temporarily' is a bad choice of words. If some ignorant sender of the virus(tm) was clogging my network with this crap, his account would be in the 'permanently over quota and running back to AOL with his tail between his legs' category.

Another thing that puzzled me was how my email address ended up in his address book. I've never heard of the ignorant sender of the virus(tm) until he started unintentionally spamming me. Then I read that the SirCam virus can scrape email addresses from the browser cache. This leads me to believe that ignorant sender of the virus(tm) has visited this site recently.

Hopefully he will come back and read this message. Hopefully he will realize that it is he who is the ignorant sender of the virus(tm) and do something to remedy his machine.
    posted by Greg at 10:33 AM


[ Wednesday, August 29 ]
  Control The Night. Am I the only one offended by this? To me, this says 'Have your way with your woman by getting her drunk on Seagrams Gin'.