Someone has drafted up Sco’s version of the 419 scam which is pretty funny reading. Thanks to Koozie for the tipoff.
Grrr – just realised my archives are really messed up. It looks like the import/export format and not what they should look like at all… Now to work out what I need to change!
Update Fixed ! <sigh of relief> I had to create an entry in the Weblog Config for the blog in the archive section. Under the monthly section I created a new filename for the Monthly Backup Template so that it wouldn’t overwrite the standard date based archive. My config screen now looks like this(popup), but with the text actually reading something along the lines of andysmonthbackupfor-<$MTArchiveDateEnd$>.txt
Thought I’d do my first ever Friday five….on a Saturday. My answers are funny (at least to me) so here goes….
1. How much time do you spend online each day?
The home computer is connected 24/7, I check my email when I get up and check news sites and blogs updated in blogrolling before going to work. I then use the internet for most of the day at work, I eat tea and then I’ll check email, blog check, program or just randomly surf….so probably at least 12 hours a day I’m actively using the internet.
2. What is your browser homepage set to?
Which browser? 🙂 Mostly about:blank That way it loads the quickest. As my browsers are constantly opening and shutting I don’t want to wait for the home page to load each time. Having said that most of the time I use the address bar to actually type the url or search query in to launch the browser so it never goes to the home page in the first place.
3. Do you use any instant messaging programs? Very occasionally I’ll use Miranda but I have accounts on yahoo,aol,icq and msn. In fact I have a 6 digit icq number which is pretty rare!
4. Where was your first webpage located?
On a floppy :-). The first accessible page was (and still is) Wabbit’s Warren . This was in 1995 when they were still geocities and everyone wondered how on earth they were going to be profitable giving away free web space. I had to decide on a theme for the site, as in those days pages were grouped by neighbourhoods ie Hollywood for entertainment. I was big into Petra at the time so that influenced my neighbourhood. Note the painstakingly created grey background, auto refresh to a different page, animated wabbit logo (hand created) and imagemap for the various pages. The scary thing is that people still sign my guestbook!
5. How long have you had your current website?
Which website? Absoblogginlutely.net is the latest and the main site that I update and has been running for about 4 months I think. This is the third location for my blog as I’ve moved hosting providers (and urls)
Amy Langfield has a really interesting story about her experience getting stuck in the underground in NewYork and the long wait to get home. Fortunately she was only 2 blocks away from her house. It’s still a pretty scary story and insight into how it would be getting stuck. She is a journalist so the writing is of a very good standard (with loads of interesting links too)
I need to find a way of spamencoding emails on the website (or removing the email address’s from MT as I think I got my email address crawled from it. At the moment the only spams that seem to be getting through to my mailbox are the Nigerian 411 ones.
I’ve also had symantec’s console have its password changed in the past and Kevin’s details the changes. All you do is change HKLM\SOFTWARE\INTEL\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\ConsolePassword to 1084A085DC6BD2D755D4D6A7726 and then use the password symantec
(I’ve repeated it here so I have a local archive in case Kev’s page ever disappears.)
Last Friday we went to Panama Hattys with a couple of friends and had a really good night. Booking is essential, but you then basically have the table for the night – They seat you in a nice lounge whilst they cook your food then move you to the table when your food is ready. Finally when we finished they were in no hurry to get us out the restaurant and we must have been there a good hour after eating before they came over and asked if we wanted the bill.
I was going to blog about it earlier but hadn’t found the url for it. Searching in google for panama hatties cheshire of use, but searching for Panama Hattys Cheshire finds relevant hits on the first page. The weird thing is that the home page of panamahatties.co.uk and panamahattys.co.uk actually work but are not in google. Normally having the search term in the url brings the page up pretty close to the top of the search results. (The pages actually point to the same site though.)
Problem is this page will probably be at the top of google in a week or two 🙂
Microsoft have a pretty good page about the blast worm and links to all the various utilities and various anti-virus software packages that deals with this. They don’t mention AVG software though which considering is free and therefore widely used I’m suprised it wasn’t covered.
Microsoft have a pretty good page about the blast worm and links to all the various utilities and various anti-virus software packages that deals with this. They don’t mention AVG software though which considering is free and therefore widely used I’m suprised it wasn’t covered.