I don’t know how the spammers managed to do it, but I think they’ve nailed my biggest problems. From an actual spam I received: You are used to eating shit? [brand name] can make you do away with all your habits. I feel… liberated.

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Here are Instructions for making a yellow jacket trap. Very cool design, and appears to be totally safe for the other wildlife out there.

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If you’d like to win a $5 amazon Gift Certificate, here’s all you have to do: Provide me with a way in Windows XP to get a complete listing of the processes that are running on the system. No special utilities. I should be able to replicate this on a plain vanilla installation This should [...]

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Ever had one of those days where you felt like you couldn’t concentrate for anything? Ever had one of those days where your nose didn’t stop running? Ever felt like (*honk*) your head wasn’t attached to your body? (Pretty clouds). Yeah, me neither. (Oh! Fluffy!)

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So, with an ad campaign that bordered on pathetic, WDTW changed it’s format back to country. Apparently they couldn’t make a go of it against rock station WRIF. Their laughable campaign against WRIF when Arthur Penhallow celebrated his big 35 year broadcasting anniversary was aimed at trying to make the station look hip compared to [...]

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I’m not a fan of Pearl Jam (I think Eddie Vedder sounds like the bastard child of an enfatuation with sheep gone horribly wrong), but they have released their latest video “Life Wasted ” under a Creative Commons license. Somewhat ironic that Sony/BMG (makers of the finest rootkits around) is the label that Pearl Jam [...]

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Congratulations to Don and Karen on the birth of their son, Alan Conner Peterson!

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Last night JoDee and I celebrated our anniversary. JoDee showed her culinary prowess by making the meal that we had at our wedding. She made Panko Chicken breasts, broiled potatoes, steamed mixed vegetables, bread, and fruit. Very very tasty. After dinner, we chilled together and watched the season finale of America’s Next Top Model (which [...]

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Well, I’ve changed my RSS reader again. Last time I changed was in April. This time I was driven to change by a small little bug in rss2email. Honestly, I’ve been contemplating a change for some time now because reading RSS in your e-mail can be a real pain. It fills up quickly whenever someone [...]

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Wow. Sony and Philips better start getting their shit together over BluRay, or there’s going to be some serious problems getting people to adopt the new format: Read the article at BluRay is pissing me off again. If you can’t get developers excited about developing content, and make it prohibitively expensive, then you might as [...]

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