Computer Ninja’s Weblog

In chatting with my friend, Sophie, in the UK, this morning, she said:

“After all this waiting for a photo, you will probably think the car looks rubbish.”

I love that, rubbish.

In an interview with Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today Show. Matt Lauer as the question: “Why do we still have political conventions?” Dennis Miller said that it was so that all the “schleps” who go door to door in places like Iowa have some incentive to do this work. “We’ll get you into a big city, and maybe you’ll get laid.” That rocks!!

This has got to be one of the nastiest things I’ve heard in a while. I’m not even sure what would possess someone to do something like this, other than the power trip.

Creepy Dentist

So, I’ve had Comcast’s DVR since Friday. I haven’t used it all that much yet, as it’s usually from the Fall through May that I do a lot of TV watching. Well, I watch HBO Soap Operas, but I am usually home on a Sunday night. It’ll probably get more use to tape a lot of network shows this next season. It’s sweet though, as it records High Definition. Tivo only offers that through one of the High Definition boxes that Direct TV uses. It’s not as pretty as Tivo, but it works. And the tech that installed it told me that next month, they’ll have a two tuner version, so you can tape on one and watch on the other!

Back in the day, when we were freely giving out our email address on all those websites, that eventually, they’d proliferate that address to all the scumbag emailers on earth. I’m blogging this. Seriously, friends. I hear a lot of griping from people that email sucks these days. Sure it does. A solution is to use a new email address for a while, and NOT use the one that you may have been used to from years and years of use. Those years and years of use have probably “dirtied” the address for a while.

Actually, Jesse is using a new address. I wonder if he’ll comment and let us know if it’s worked out for him. There are also solutions like www.mailblocks.com, a system that uses a challenge > response system. If someone emails you, it asks them to verify that they are human, your friend, etc. If it passes, then MailBlocks will send mail your way. If they don’t reply to the validation email from MailBlocks, and they aren’t on your pre-approved list, you won’t get the mail. It’s that simple. There are also email services like Google’s GMail, which is probably getting close to being released to the general public. That probably works very well against spam, if they do mail like they do searching (except for yesterday!).

Tags: Computers