General posts.
Leslie got me a pedometer, which I have really wanted for a long time.
It took me 2380 steps to get to work this morning. According to the pedometer, that’s 1.034 miles or 1.666 kilometers.
It also says it is “1 5.0” calories, but I don’t know what that means.
I’m off to Augusta for a conference for the next few days. I expect Dave, Leslie, and Greg to keep up our streak of at least one update everyday.
I know they can do it.
It seems our webhost has had technical difficulties today. Sorry about that.
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Assuming the Great British Weather doesn’t decide to throw down the rain all day, we’ve decided to all go to the zoo tomorrow. We’ve recently bought a new car, one of these (not brand new, I’m not made of money! It’s 4 years old) and haven’t had an opportunity to load up for a family day out yet. Anyhow, I thought I’d do a little scouting around and see which zoo we might go to, and how much it’s gonna be to get in.
Looks like it’s going to be around 40 quid for all of us (2 adults, 2 kids) to get in. Throw in some food, drinks, couple of toys for the kids at the gift shop and it’ll probably be around 60 quid all told. That’s not counting petrol (gas for you American speakers) – nearest zoo is about 40 miles away, which is probably about another tenner. Reckon on about 70-80 quid for a day out at the zoo.
This country sucks. Sooooo damned expensive.
This is mainly a test post to see how the Technorati tagging feature I just added is working.
What is Technorati?
from the Technorati: About Us page:
Technorati is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere – the world of weblogs.
Technorati displays what’s important in the blogosphere – which bloggers are commanding attention, what ideas are rising in prominence, and the speed at which these conversations are taking place. Technorati makes it possible for you to find out what people on the Internet are saying about you, your company, your products, your competitors, your politics, or other areas of interest – all in real-time. All this activity is monitored and indexed within minutes of posting. Technorati provides a live view of the global conversation of the web.
I’m using Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugin to display the tags. If you authors want to add tags, there’s a new text box on the “Post an article” page.
Well, I have the dubious honour of posting capabilities, so here it is. From waaaaay over the Atlantic, I’m here to tell you….I just accidentally squashed chocolate down my T-shirt. It seems the kids were at my desk earlier playing on the computer, and left some chocolate crumbs on the desk. I’ve been squished against the edge of my desk for the past couple of hours playing DAOC. pulled back and noticed melted chocolate everywhere. Another T-shirt for the wash. I’m going through loads this week. It seems I put one on clean, and about 3 hours later I’m taking it off because I/the kids/the cat spilled something/put dirty hands/wiped dirty paws on me.
This week is the first time I’ve played DAOC for about 2 years. My how everything is changed, and yet remains the same. Loads of new graphical bits, spells and stuff – but the same old childish chat in the battleground /cg, lol.
I don’t know if I’ll stick around past the 10 days free play – there’s no-one left I know, and I really don’t have the time or commitment to find a new guild, etc. Surprised to see the MT guild house still there, but I hear it’s going to decay soon. I can’t pay the rent because I don’t have permission!
Hopefully this will help solve the spam problem I was having awhile back.
The Spam Karma 2 plugin is now installed. I’ve turned off the registration requirement for comments, so comment away and let me see what happens.
Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. Spam Karma 2 is the proud successor to Spam Karma, with whom it shares most of the development ideas, but absolutely none of the code.
It was super chilly when I walked to work this morning, even at 10am.
Time to break out the winter clothes.
Somebody has me in the their address book and has a virus. I have no idea who it is, but most likely if they have me in their address book, they may also have other readers of this site in their address books as well. This is a public service announcement.
Recently, I have have been getting many supposedly official-looking emails claiming to be sent from admin@elbuzzard.com or info@elbuzzard.com. Since I am the adminstrator of elbuzzard.com, I find these kind of funny. These emails are all a part of an elaborate hoax, attempting to spread a virus in the .zip attachment.
This is what the emails look like:
Dear Elbuzzard Member,
We have temporarily suspended your email account buzz@elbuzzard.com.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.
See the details to reactivate your Elbuzzard account.Sincerely,The Elbuzzard Support Team
+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Elbuzzard Antivirus – www.elbuzzard.com
It is safe to IGNORE and/or DELETE these emails.
DO NOT follow the “instructionsâ€,
DO NOT open the attachment, and
DO NOT follow the links.
The big hint should be the “+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)”.
I repeat: DO NOT OPEN THE ZIP ATTACHMENT. I’m tired of getting these emails.
If you are reading this, and think it may be you who opened a similar email, let me know, and I’ll help you clean your machine.