Important tips and reminders for Microsoft Internet Explorer users.

833786 – Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks
Although maybe you should just consider getting a real browser instead.

From the Cool Gadgetry file:

First, the Drift Table – as you shuffle things on the table, the aerial photograph of England and Wales displayed on the screen in the center changes to match the relative weight on the surface.
Second is Hektor, whose site is both under construction and semi-Slashdotted. Hektor is a graffitti robot, a large-scale spray-painting plotter [...]

Answers for frustrated sysadmins in times of crisis – mix’n'match as you see fit.

MyDoom, the virus you keep hearing about on the news right now, spoofs addresses.
MyDoom, the virus you keep hearing about on the news right now, lies about where it comes from.
MyDoom, the virus you keep hearing about on the news right now, does not tell the truth when it lists its sender.
MyDoom, the virus you [...]

Yes, spelling counts. When doesn’t it?

I’m posting this for all the people who whine when I correct their misspellings.
Apparently, there’s a cottage industry of people who cash in on poor spellings on eBay auctions. Quite clever, if you ask me – and although it does seem a bit predatory, those sellers really should have used a dictionary.

Me ‘n’ the AARP.

Please note – I am not making any of this up.

So today I get home from work, feeling haggard, and I notice a letter
waiting for me among the bills and junk.

Specifically, it was a letter from the AARP.

They want me to join.

I’m 24.

They must have lost a LOT of members during that whole Medicare bill [...]