tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314620002024-03-14T05:08:30.791-04:00Spamfighter's We Like BallsI have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That's bad! Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick! I'm so mean I make medicine sick!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-88691856836611465872013-12-02T08:07:00.001-05:002013-12-02T08:13:53.042-05:00All of my computers have the password 00000000All of my computers have the password 00000000. Apparently I have a beard.
However.
They are located throughout America in hidden and heavily protected areas., with trip wires, snipers, a tank or two, and some big mean dogs. Also, they are buried about 1/4 mile down in concrete bunkers.
Oh, one more thing. To login, the two armed guards sitting at opposite ends of the room need to receive a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-47782184414317549182013-11-21T09:42:00.001-05:002013-11-21T09:42:21.328-05:00The purpose of Rock MusicA friend of mine is officially old. I imagine that may mean I am too, since we went to high school together.
She's a nice lady who does cool things for a living, but, yeah, she's old. She recently posted the lyrics to Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines with some ‘what about the children’ outrage
“Hustle Gang HomieOne thing I ask of youLemme be the one you back that ass up toFrom Malibu to Paris booHadUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-90431542294532595122013-03-21T13:11:00.000-04:002013-03-21T13:11:03.229-04:00"I'm Sorry You Are A Weasel" Baby's First Apology
How to Apologize
It seems like an easy thing, to apologize. But yet apologies have been winnowed down from the unmitigated to weasel words.
Here is a handy primer on how to apologize.
Executive summary (presumably because executives are simpletons who can't do any deep reading):
Rule #1: Don't be a weasel.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-23026534118543667852013-03-17T12:03:00.002-04:002013-03-17T12:06:25.414-04:00You Are Still A Pervert
Recently, there was an arrest made for a purveyor of child pornography. He had 15 terrabytes of content, video and photographic representations of child rape.
Newberg man, Richard Tietjens, accused of storing 15 terabytes of child porn
This man was, at one point in the past, a participant in anti-spam activities. Like every other type of work that exists, antis run a broad spectrum of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-34170715256517764652011-12-16T07:49:00.000-05:002011-12-16T07:49:56.915-05:00Why the Net really doesn't need SOPA / PIPA LegislationAs some of you may know, there are bills wending their way (successfully, it appears) through the United States legislative process that will force search engines and ISPs to become tools of censorship. Basically, the record companies, film studios, and pharmaceutical companies are worried about their intellectual property.
I am too. I lived off've the avails of music publishing for quite some Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-44130322157896566842011-11-17T04:50:00.001-05:002011-11-17T05:11:08.397-05:00J.D. Falk - Bad Pictures of Good Food
Death Didn’t Win
During the last months he spend with us, my friend and colleague J.D. Falk reacted to the death of a fellow cancer patient, Canadian New Democratic Leader party leader Jack Layton, with the same aplomb and approach he had his entire life.
Specifically, a columnist had noted, quite rightly, that Layton had not ‘lost a fight’ to cancer, and called for a better Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-62544042842663032592011-09-10T10:24:00.001-04:002011-09-10T10:24:53.770-04:00120 Spam to An address stolen from out-law.com / Pinsent MasonsIn March 2012 I began to receive spam to an address given only to out-law.com
I alerted them by way of editor matthew.magee@out-law.com, he told me they were looking into it, then went dead in response.
I upped the ante and copied in the following addresses on complaints, to no avail. chris.mullen@pinsentmasons.com, andrew.hornigold@pinsentmasons.com, kathy.jacob@pinsentmasons.com, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-11994288934259615662011-07-13T10:08:00.003-04:002011-07-13T10:14:09.263-04:00Newmans, MacCallums, apples, tobacco, and raspberriesAs I noted over on Facebook, it appears that I have a biological family which is pretty cool.
Monday, 16 May 2011 at 07:29
I've been searching for my biological family since the mid 1990s. I had attempted to gain access to adoption records to no avail, they were terse, and uninformative.
I'd submitted my gene sample to 23andme.com some time ago and over the weekend, I was matched with my Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-84410588233728771412011-06-09T11:01:00.000-04:002011-06-09T11:01:11.781-04:00Acceptance Speech for the MAAWG.org Mary LitynskiI was honoured with the Mary Litynski award on June 09, 2011. Read about it here.
This is not the first award I've received from the MAAWG community. A few years ago, at a meeting in Washington, D.C., I received an honorary doctorate when recognized me as Dr. Evil. At the past meeting, at Disney, you honored me with a t-shirt branding me as Grumpy, from the Seven Dwarves.
As much as I treasure Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-33164258309759292322011-05-16T06:40:00.000-04:002011-05-16T06:40:08.897-04:00It appears that I have familyI've been searching for my biological family sine the mid 1990s. I had attempted to gain access to adoption records to no avail, they were terse, and uninformative.
I'd submitted my gene sample to 23andme.com some time ago and over the weekend, I was matched with my biological sister. I also have a brother, and my mother is still alive and living elsewhere.
The family history and the 23andme Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-63261226557187095942011-04-22T15:55:00.000-04:002011-04-22T15:55:27.124-04:00Apple has a file on my computer that lists where I AM?!?! OMG OMG OMGThese are the 39 apps on my iPhone that know where I am too, and I know 100% that they all 'call home'. Now what?
AIM
Alarm Clock
Camera
Camera +
CBC Radio
Color
Craigsphone
CraigsPro
Currency
Dogbook
Dopplr
Facebook
Fandango
Foodspotting
Google
GPS
GPS Drive
HBO
iBart
INRIX Traffic
iPothole
Maps
Michelin
OutOfTheBox
Pano
reQall
Safari
SeamlessWeb
ZShazam
SoundHound
Speed Test
Sunrise & Set
TakeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-77026693451044815742011-03-25T18:58:00.000-04:002011-03-25T18:58:29.776-04:00Why I'm voting conservative for the first time ever this election Pt. I
The Geeky Ex-rock Critic Industry Minister Tony Clement
Who tweets and interacts. And got a Canadian anti-spam law passed
A Liberal former astronaut. Yawn
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-31942047850007574042011-03-25T09:13:00.000-04:002011-03-25T09:13:05.662-04:00Anyone thinking of voting Bloc Quebecoise?
Robert Bouchard
Gérard Asselin
The Bloc seem like good guys, interested in representing their constituencies.
For example, here's a bit of a Hansard transcript from Robert Bouchard, Bloc MP (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord) and Vice-chair of the parliamentary INDU Committee:
http://openparliament.ca/hansards/2336/109/
Robert Bouchard Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, QC
Mr. Speaker, this week, the Conservative Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-50375001567041428802010-10-25T18:37:00.000-04:002010-10-25T18:37:00.092-04:00RSA Conference & BankInfoSecurity.com send Illegal Spam Through LyrisI'm a big fan of BankInfo Security and their sister site GovInfo Security. So, colour me chagrined when I recently was spammed about the RSA Conference in February to my CAUCE.org address (that'd be the Coalition Against unsolicited Commercial Email!) and a brief investigation turns up that ismgcorp.com is behind the spam run.
What makes this noteworthy is two-fold.
The reply-to address, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-34703348703940349082010-10-25T06:31:00.000-04:002010-10-25T06:31:35.790-04:00Epic Facebook Ad Fail
I guess it is too much to ask to spell-check your ad for counterfeit sports memorabilia
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-33756428012751512352010-08-08T09:54:00.000-04:002010-08-08T09:54:11.090-04:00How Dumb Do You Have to be to Respond to Spam?Really, really dumb, apparently.
I just received the following spam (n.b. the 'confidentiality notice which disallows me from posting it here!!)
Dear Neil,
As you know, you have been considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2010 Edition of Strathmore's Who's Who for Executives and Professionals, which is scheduled for publication in late 2010. Despite our efforts to contact you, we have stillUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-33307046788636231042010-05-09T23:09:00.000-04:002010-05-09T23:09:36.695-04:00More on the 'rockstar' thingSeriously, now we are seeing ninjas, rockstars and most lately, stormtroopers in the marketing community.
If you fancy yourself a rockstar, ask yourself this : Have you ever mistaken a plate of heroin being circulated around the room for cocaine? Has a 14 year-old girl threatened her mother that she would run away from home unless she let her go fuck you at your hotel? Did you furnish mom's homeUnknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-88748563188769096362010-04-22T07:26:00.005-04:002010-04-22T07:50:18.873-04:00The "prophet" Muhammad in a bear suit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8636455.stm
The radical Islamist assholes at Revolution Muslim told South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker they would "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh". The Dutch film-maker was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 by an Islamist angered by his film about Muslim women.
revolutionmuslim.com are cowards; they have domain privacy in place to hide Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-30103151383353785652010-04-16T06:01:00.002-04:002010-04-16T06:15:05.647-04:00What passes for shockingThe Register today reports that a photo shoot promoting the latest Shrek ouvre, 'Forever After' went awry, with the inclusion of scantily clothed young things amidst cartoon (well, CGI) characters.Apparently Paramount and Dreamworks somehow didn't NIX the release of the shoot; they note they won't be suing, but did voice their concern. Please. They own the likenesses and could easily pull the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-32795153107457458372010-04-13T05:14:00.012-04:002010-04-13T07:49:05.135-04:00Misuse of the language pt. #372: "Rock Star""Rock Star" is a ubiquitous phrase these days. So as to clarify what the term means, we offer the following by way of definition:Rock StarsNot Rock StarsRock StarNot Rock StarRock StarFormer Rock Star, now Not Rock StarUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-30864506648605538232010-04-07T05:43:00.003-04:002010-04-07T05:47:39.993-04:00Definition of a consumerconsumer - something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-45966176191571922452010-04-04T11:01:00.005-04:002010-04-04T11:43:11.887-04:00Safe Porn + Safe Web surfingAs defacto resident anti-abuse/computer security guy for my friends and family, someone recently asked me for advice about which porn sites were safe to browse.While I can't answer specifically (everyone's tastes differ), I can say this:Use Firefox to browse, you can download it at http://getfirefox.comThen (and this is important) download the following pluginsNetcraft toolbarWeb o trustMcAffe Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-53231713164275202922010-03-30T13:51:00.002-04:002010-03-30T13:55:07.245-04:00Grow a pairIf you wish to see your comments posted here, use you real name and a functional email address and blogger account. A spell check would be nice too. Anonymous posters will be presumed to be as spineless and irrelevant as their verbiage.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-18546821473774322842010-03-14T12:04:00.011-04:002010-03-14T12:25:41.786-04:00Dog Abuse at J.R.'s Dog TrainingThis 'man', Joe Rosen, of J.R.'s Dog Training, located in Montreal, QuebecHeld this dog2 feet off the ground with this choker chainHis idea of 'off-leash training' is to use the choker chain as well. Except, he threw the chain at the dog's face.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31462000.post-14850667130357579812010-03-03T07:55:00.003-05:002010-03-15T11:38:24.656-04:00I'm a wanted criminalThe Quebec Justice Dept. is filing to have an arrest warrant issued for me. Called them to see why. Apparently some evil parking at the airport (I take taxis, ergo impossible) and driving without insurance (dead stupid, since I got receipts dating back to 1998).The nice lady from Justice, one Jennifer Boisclair, contacted at 14:14 02/mar/2010 assures me she will get back to me. Uh-huh. How about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1