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When I went on my recent browse of Google’s listings for “Richard Evans Lee” I was surprised to see links to many of the guestbooks I’ve signed. Likewise a few message board postings and even an ancient personal ad.

Most of these were on personal or small business sites. I’ve mostly used my legal name and not a handle on the web. What really struck me is Google didn’t show my postings on major sites like Yahoo and ZDNet or even Gay.com. I don’t know if Google has chosen to not index the big sites as thoroughly or the webmasters have blocked search engines from their forums.

Originally posted 2002-12-22 08:02:00. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Here’s an email claiming to be from the Illegal Internet Downloads Dept. at the FBI:

We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP 61.75.48.254 . The contents of your computer were confiscated as an evidence, and you will be indicated. You get the charge in writing, in the next days.
In the Reference code: #6231, are all files, that we found on your computer.

This is the silliest, oddest bit of spam to come my way since the bizarre notice that I am a “pornography webmaster” and needed to give someone my credit card so they could launder my ill-gotten gains.

Originally posted 2004-01-04 09:42:54. Republished by Old Post Promoter

I may be tardy but I do try to reply to every email my weblogs bring me. I’m not talking about comments. Plenty of those are complete in themselves. There’s an on and off flow of commending and admonishing correspondents.

Not long ago I setup a copy of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client at work so I could read my personal email at the shop. To much surprise I discovered emails that had been dumped in my home copy’s junk folder. The one at the shop is trashing different emails that aren’t spam. (Actually Thunderbird’s current default junk filter seems too harsh. You should train it before you let it automatically sort your email.)

Wonder how many kind emails the sender thinks I just ignored?

See how spammers are increasingly confounding, probably hoping to kill junk mail filters I may just go back to hitting the delete key.

Originally posted 2004-01-19 16:34:44. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Just discovered Cosmos at Technorati.

Use your favorite RSS browser or aggregator (like Radio Userland or Headline Viewer or NetNewsWire Lite) to keep track of the inbound links to your blog or web site. It only costs $10 a year to get up-to-the-minute information, that’s less than a dollar a month!

Can’t complain about the $10/year fee (although I can barely pay for my web space so I won’t be using it).

Originally posted 2002-12-10 13:04:22. Republished by Old Post Promoter

One day I’m going to change the name of this weblog. This isn’t a computerized toaster. I think it is much neater than that:

I wanted to make a small quiet computer for use as an MP3 server, DVD player, surfing, and occasional gaming. I also wanted it to be small enough to fit in a bag so that I could take it to friend’s houses or to work.
. . .
I thought that a toaster would be cool and have the DVD/CDRW open out of the toast slot. The problem is that all of the toasters were too small to use a full size hard drive, video card, LCD, etc… Then I found a large toaster (1960 General Electric) with a sizeable crumb tray/warmer.

The first EPIA based ToasterPC

Originally posted 2002-12-13 17:45:22. Republished by Old Post Promoter

I mentioned a few days ago that I was having trouble playing music on this PC. Thanks to redwill I realized that the volume for wav files was set to zero. Wondered how that happened.

Charles has an AOL account. He keeps it so he can chat with a few old friends he’s known for years. When he closed AOL last night it announced it was “upgrading.” In its wearisome, inexorable way it reinstalls everything including Real Player.

When I popped in a CD this afternoon I got no sound. A glance at the volume control showed wav set back to silence. Is the corporation with $58,000,000,000 loss responsible?

Even without owning the underling OS AOL-TW is as intrusive as MS. Sometimes more. Microsoft, fearful of steeping in more legal hot water, usually gives you a chance to say no. Or at least the means of shackling much of MS’s misbehavior is out there for a Google search.

About a week ago I discovered Connect2something on my desktop, tray and start menu. I remembered several Netscape installs ago it put Connect2Phone on my computer even though I’d've sworn I told it to keep its itchy fingers to itself. I think this had a different name but all I remember are the ugly red lips of the program’s icon.

I’d installed Netscape 6.2 shortly after its release but I think it honored my request to install the browser only.

But it did stick [icon] $$$$ – Refer a Friend in my start menu and IE favorites. Same thing happened when I setup AIM for Charles. And any fresh install of AOL itself does the same. NullSoft much have independence because I don’t remembe WinAmp doing anything that I didn’t ask for or OK.

Oh yeah, and Yahoo appears to have removed another innocuous account.

Originally posted 2002-05-04 17:43:21. Republished by Old Post Promoter

We are Lushelho House Publishing. We publish joke books. The title we are interested selling in bulk is: “Laughter and Health are your wealth – jokes to cure your blues” (190 pages). Bar coded list price is $19.95. Please let me know if you are interested, state your desired quantity and price offer. Jolanta Dove-Marketing. damnedfool@aol.com.

Can’t imagien why this woman thinks I want to buy a joke book. Maybe it is her kind way of saying that I need one.

Originally posted 2003-08-25 17:04:22. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Possibly the most clueless email ever sent to Edifying Spectacle.

I found your link, I was looking for an old site run by a friend “IWOREIT” (now I guess run by someone other than Charlie and Chuck) and found you. I am confused even though I normally know my way around computers. How do I join? What can I do, is there auctions? Chat boards or what. I agree ebay sucks. What can you tell me?cool site.
Wizard

Originally posted 2003-06-09 18:53:07. Republished by Old Post Promoter

My number one want right now is a cgi or php script that will let me display the last several search engine requests that brought people to Edifying Spectacle, e.g., “Naked Christina.”

Originally posted 2003-01-18 07:19:13. Republished by Old Post Promoter

An old entry on the topic of repairing, fixing Internet Explorer for Windows has become so comment heavy I’ve decided to create a fresh entry for continuing it.

Since Internet Explorer is an old browser with an increasing number of security vulnerabilities and weaknesses you should really consider replacing it with a more modern and secure web browser. Both Mozilla Firefox and Opera are worth considering.

I prefer Firefox but think many average Windows users might be better off with Opera.

If you are running Windows XP:

Go to the Windows Start bottom and select Run. Where it says Open enter:

sfc /scannow

Windows will search for and replace corrupt files. This fixes many common Windows XP problems. You will need your Windows XP install disc.

For Windows 98 to to the Windows Start button, select Setting, then Control Panel. Under Add/Remove Programs select Microsoft Internet Explorer, the Add/Remove or Change/Remove. Select Repair Internet Explorer.

If the above doesn’t get Internet Explorer working again you may have to reinstall Windows. There may be third party software that can repair IE but I’ve never used any and can’t offer any suggestions.

Again, you should considering trying either Firefox or Opera.

Follow-up entry: Repair (replace!) Internet Explorer

Originally posted 2004-03-26 05:47:45. Republished by Old Post Promoter