Posted on July 28th, 2005%
If you haven’t seen it, Lego has revealed their short clip, Star Wars: Revenge of the Brick. Simply incredible!
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Posted on July 20th, 2005%
I received an email today, which is paraphrased below.
Dear ProxyBuster,
I am … from MAC Pharma Network, one of the leading health and pharmaceutical information portals on the internet.
You will be glad to know that it has been more than six months since your website http://www.marzie.com/webtools/proxybuster/index was included in our very famous online health directory. You may or may not have noticed that your website has already been benefitting immensely from this inclusion. A theme based link from a high quality portal means a boost in your website’s pagerank and hence increases its rankings in all major search engines. This brings in targeted visitor traffic.
All pages of our health directory have a google pagerank between three and five. Your link is listed under the category Child Health on the following page:
http://www.mac-pharma-network.com/dir/Child%20Health/child-abuse-prevention-(026-050).shtml
All that MAC Pharma Network asks in return for this is for you to place a link to MAC Pharma Network in any suitable place . . .
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Posted on April 21st, 2005%
Every now and then you come across something that wastes three minutes of your life.
Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
25% Yankee
20% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Enough said.
. . .
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Posted on April 11th, 2005%
It started out innocent enough. A friend e-mailed me a quote from Seneca the Elder, a Roman orator from eons ago:
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
I should have left it at that, but I didn’t. I could have read more quotes from Seneca the Elder, but instead, I was reminded of a quote from Yoda, the Jedi Master of Star Wars fame:
“Try not! Do or do not, there is no try.”
To get the exact wording, I did a search, and found a bunch of quotes from Star Wars. One of those got me giggling:
Han Solo: “I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big light blur.”
Luke Skywalker: “There’s nothing to see. I used to live here you know.”
Han: “You’re gonna die here, you know. Convenient.”
Han was . . .
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Posted on March 17th, 2005%
I’ve often told people that I could break in to most company’s computer networks by performing a simple task: Call a random (non-IT) employee in the firm, pretend to be an IT technician, and ask for their username/password. It’s simple…
Me: “Hello, I’m trying to reach Joe User.”User: “This is Joe.”Me: “Hi, Joe. This is Steve from the IT department. I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but we might have found some corruption in your e-mail box.”User: “I haven’t had any problems.”Me: “You may not have, but we want to make sure nothing happens. Could you spare a moment with me?”User: “Sure…”[Proceed to ask the user to reboot, then ask them to log back in to their computer and go to their e-mail "inbox."]Me: “How many messages are in your inbox?”User: “147.”Me: “That’s very odd — I am showing 99. Would it be OK if I connected to your e-mail box to verify this? I assure you I will not view, open, or . . .
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