here I am at the zoo. For those of you that don’t have a clue what the zoo is, well it’s a karaoke bar in South Porcupine, ON. I’m on my 8th or 9th beer and thought it would be interesting to write a little something on here from my new blackberry 8830. The karaoke is getting better and better but that can be because I am getting drunker and drunker. That’s alright though because I needed it. I will most likely be updating my blog more often if this works. Ok I am probably one of the only geeks bloging from a bar right now so I am outta here.
By the way, Jenn got a blackberry too now we really look dumb when we go out because we are both geeking away.
Beer, Geek, Karaoke, blackberry
Is it just me or is spam easier to spot now? Maybe it’s because we’re all so used to it by now and we know all the tricks in the book. Today a spam message coming from @1-800eatshit.com got caught in the spam filtering robot from dreamhost. How obvious was it that it was spam.
My dreamhost address was really the only one that was letting spam through. Yesterday I logged into the control panel and turned on the filtering. So far it’s been good. Not one junk message got through yet. It blocked 6 of them today.
I’ve had good luck with Gmail. I think that’s your best bet for an e-mail address provider. You get close to 3GB of storage space, the junk mail filtering is pretty good and you can still set it up through pop3 to download your mail through Outlook or whatever you like to read e-mail with.
Geek, Useless
I got an e-mail from Zingotel today. If you sign up before June 30th, 2006 you save $5 on your VOIP service.
I’ve been using it for about 3 months now and it works good. You can’t complain for $15 / month unlimited calling to Canada and the U.S.
Geek, Useless
Once again Dell is having their 7 Days of Deals The Deals start today and by the looks of it, they aren’t too bad. The best deals today are a 2GB SD Card for $69, Linksys Wireless router for $39 and a Dell Laser Printer for $99.
Check it out daily to get some good deals.
Geek, Technology, Web
Well it might happen sooner than you thing. Google is talking about releasing yet another service for web users. This time it would allow users to store infinite amounts of data on Googles servers. Google is calling it GDrive. When will we see it? Who knows? I’m sure they are trying to find ways around slow internet speed first. Imagine trying to watch a DVD movie stored on your GDrive?
Geek, Technology, Web
Apple’s iTunes music store hit one billion songs sold last night. The one billionth song that was downloaded from the iTunes music store was Coldplay’s “Speed of Sound” Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan was the lucky billionth customer. You think it’s crazy that Apple sold a billion songs…you should see what they gave Alex for being the billionth person to buy a song. He received a 20-inch iMac, Ten 60GB iPods (5 white/ 5 black) and a $10,000 iTunes music store gift card. Apparently Apple will also be setting up a scholarship to the world-famous Juilliard School of Music in New York in Ostrovsky’s name. My question is what the hell is he going to do with Ten 60GB iPods? I guess he will need them to store his $10,000 music collection. That’s a good way to build up a “legal” music library. I wonder what happens if his computer crashes and he loses all that music? Could he make an insurance claim?
Apple, Geek
If you’re lucky enough to own a Mac, welcome to the world of worms and viruses. A few viruses and worms have recently been discovered for the Mac platform.
Last week OSX/Leap-A was discovered. The virus attemps to spread itself through Apple’s iChat instant messaging program which is also compatible with AOL’s popular AIM instant messaging program.
This week a new worm was discovered. Symantec is calling it OSX.Inqtana.A. It spreads through a vulnerability in OSX’s bluetooth wireless connections.
So if you have a Mac and don’t have an antivirus program installed on it yet, now is probably a good time to do it. Now the Mac users will know what Windows users need to deal with everyday, the bottleneck of an antivirus program.
Apple, Geek, Technology
Well yesterday I bought an Xbox (just the regular one). You might ask why I would do such thing because I sold my old Xbox since I never used it. Well the reason why I bought it was because I can use it to access music, videos, pictures, and recorded tv from my Media Center PC. I was going to buy the Linksys Media Extender ($300) but instead I got an Xbox ($200) and the Media Extender for Xbox ($65) and it does the same thing, and I get an Xbox out of the deal! So yesterday we got carried away and bought some games for it as well. The best one is Sonic the Hedgehog!! It has all of the Sonic games from Sega. I remember playing that in the 90’s on my brothers Sega Genisis! It was awesome! Another game that I bought was Torino 2006 and it super sucks. I played it for 5 mins and turned it off! That one was a waste of money.
Gadgets, Geek, Technology, Unclassified
Check it out for yourself. I didn’t expect to be 1 of 8 blogs in the Google Toolbar Blogs Button category. I am thinking that only happened because 1. It’s new and 2. I registered with Google Toolbar the first day it was released.
I bet nobody is as stoked as I am but I don’t care. Let me know if you’ve come to this site via the Google Toolbar page 
Blog, Geek, Technology
Although it might sound like fun, the Kama Sutra virus is not one that you want to be infected with. The virus is supposed to hit Windows based computer around the world Friday. The virus is a mass mailing worm that; disables security-related (antivirus) programs, steals personal information, and deletes certain files types (*.doc,*.xls,*.mdb,*.mde,*.ppt,*.pps,*.zip,*.rar,*.pdf,*.psd,*.dmp) from your computer and network drives.
Fighting viruses and spyware has become quite the task nowadays. To try and minimize the risk of being infected you should install an antivirus and spyware detection program. You should keep them updated and run system scans often to detect infections before they become worse.
Tonight might be a good time to:
1- Install an antivirus client if you don’t have one (AVG is free)
2- Update your virus definitions and schedule scans
3- Install a spyware detection program (Ad-Aware is free)
4- Update your spyware definitions and scan your system
5- Backup important data from your computer; unplug USB drives
6- Avoid opening suspicious e-mails
7- Make sure your computer is behind a firewall
8- Not open any links through your instant messaging program (MSN, AIM, Yahoo…)
9- Change (or create) your Windows password to include special characters and numbers
10- Buy a Mac, since they aren’t affected
Geek, Technology
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