If you have a thought or poem...
Blog it.
Your favorite dinner dish or dessert...
Blog it.
Start writing a book and Blog it.
Put your photos here for share with the world...
Blog it...
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Blog Has No Borders
If you have a thought or poem...
Blog it.
Your favorite dinner dish or dessert...
Blog it.
Start writing a book and Blog it.
Put your photos here for share with the world...
Blog it...
Saturday, December 04, 2004
House To House Search
I watch and read the news everyday on the fighting in Fallujah, not realizing the true extent of what our troops are up against until I ran across this ariel map of Fallujah taken last November. Dialup users beware this is a 12Mb file but very well worth a close look at the true meaning of house to house search. After seeing this map indeed a few extra prayers will be said tonight for our troops stationed there.
Click Here To View The Map
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Cute Picture ??
Not if it just suddenly appears on your computer !!
New worm out click here to read about Mugly.
Firewall Safety
Off to the right I posted a new article, Understanding Your Firewall, a firewall is a piece of hardware or software that stops would-be idiots from hijacking your computer, special note for cable and satallite users,the DNS range is more widely know than for dialup accounts. I have Charter Cable so I expect a few more idiots to scan for open ports over a dialup account as cable companies use a specific DNS range (DNS=your computer's address and location). Windows XP has a built-in firewall so make sure it is turned on. Other operating systems need to have a firewall added in. If you don't think you need a firewall and that nobody is interested in you, think again, these jerks scan entire ranges of DNS's looking for an open door. I posted the article and am doing so here to let you know how important it is. To show my point I was going to add my BlackIce (Firewall software) log here but realized it is three pages long just for the last 24 hours. A total of 186 idiots out there just scanning the internet for somebody to have the door open. Just when you thought email was the only way to get hacked...those 186 idiots may have found your door open !
If you need help turning on your firewall or need one, give me a buzz.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Cyber Security Bulletin SB04-336
Cyber Security Bulletin SB04-336
Microsoft Internet Explorer 'Save Picture As' Image Download Spoofing
System effected
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.0 with Windows XP SP2
A vulnerability exists which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into downloading malicious files. The vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer using the file extension from the URL's filename when saving images with the 'Save Picture As' command and also strips the last file extension if multiple file extensions exist. This can be exploited by a malicious web site to cause a valid image with malicious, embedded script code to be saved with an arbitrary file extension.
Workaround: Disable the 'Hide extension for known file types' option and add the proper extension to the file name in the File name box when saving.
A Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Secunia Advisory ID, SA13317, November 26, 2004
Microsoft Internet Explorer 'Save Picture As' Image Download Spoofing
System effected
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.0 with Windows XP SP2
A vulnerability exists which can be exploited by malicious people to trick users into downloading malicious files. The vulnerability is caused due to Internet Explorer using the file extension from the URL's filename when saving images with the 'Save Picture As' command and also strips the last file extension if multiple file extensions exist. This can be exploited by a malicious web site to cause a valid image with malicious, embedded script code to be saved with an arbitrary file extension.
Workaround: Disable the 'Hide extension for known file types' option and add the proper extension to the file name in the File name box when saving.
A Proof of Concept exploit has been published.
Secunia Advisory ID, SA13317, November 26, 2004
Perchlorate
Perchlorate
The government has found traces of a rocket fuel chemical in organic milk in Maryland, green leaf lettuce grown in Arizona and bottled spring water from Texas and California.
What's not clear is the significance of the data, collected by the Food and Drug Administration through August 19.
Sufficient amounts of perchlorate can affect the thyroid, potentially causing delayed development and other problems.
Full story....
Federal agencies have been trying since the early 1990s to determine what level of perchlorate is safe.
You would think in 14 years they would know...
Exploratory Data on Perchlorate in Food - FDA Website
The government has found traces of a rocket fuel chemical in organic milk in Maryland, green leaf lettuce grown in Arizona and bottled spring water from Texas and California.
What's not clear is the significance of the data, collected by the Food and Drug Administration through August 19.
Sufficient amounts of perchlorate can affect the thyroid, potentially causing delayed development and other problems.
Full story....
Federal agencies have been trying since the early 1990s to determine what level of perchlorate is safe.
You would think in 14 years they would know...
Exploratory Data on Perchlorate in Food - FDA Website
Most Looked Up Word
A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.
Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year.
Full Story Here...
Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year.
Full Story Here...
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Little beknownst, I am also an earthquake buff. So here's a link to a "VERY" cool software that just happens to also be "FREE" from the USGS.
Slope Performance During an Earthquake
Java Programs for using Newmark’s method and simplified decoupled analysis to model slope performance during earthquakes
Randall W. Jibson and Matthew W. Jibson
Request a copy of this FREE program on CD-ROM from the author
(Please include the mailing address you want it sent to!)
P.S. Mailed to you free too....
I love the USGS !!!
Slope Performance During an Earthquake
Java Programs for using Newmark’s method and simplified decoupled analysis to model slope performance during earthquakes
Randall W. Jibson and Matthew W. Jibson
Request a copy of this FREE program on CD-ROM from the author
(Please include the mailing address you want it sent to!)
P.S. Mailed to you free too....
I love the USGS !!!
Monday, November 29, 2004
Sunday, November 28, 2004
The Box
Thinking Outside The Box
Thinking Outside the Box means thinking beyond the parameters of human consciousness and experience - to see beyond the norm - to be a visionary - to activate your DNA. We exist inside the box - the physical plane - but we soon evolve our conscious awareness back to its source of creation - outside the box.
Imagine your experience in third dimension as a puzzle box.
The spheres, rods, grids, holding it in place.
When you think outside the box, the box goes away.
[Note; 3x3=9=closures, endings]
Physical reality is the Tree of Life.
Tree=wood
Geometric shapes - Platonic Solids -
create physical forms that keeps you inside the box.
When you awaken - you move your consciousness 'outside the box'.
Pinocchio was a wooden puppet who became a physical boy.
He was guided by the 'Blue Fairy' (Blue=blueprint of our reality)
In many meditations I have seen humanity as puppets on strings.
To prove himself, he entered the water
(collective unconscious - creation)
and saved his creator, Geppetto.
Are you trapped inside the box?
Can you think 'outside of the box'?
It means leaving behind frustration, anger, stress, and fear.
Can you be creative?
Can you manifest in a reality of infinite possibilities?
Relax. Close your eyes.
See yourself 'in the box'.
Now visualize yourself
or remote view yourself moving
'outside of the box'.
What do you see?
If reality is a 'box'
created by electromagnetic energy grids
how does one use the hidden key to unlock the door
to become free of the pull of the grid of emotions and
able to think 'out of the box' and into higher awareness?
Metaphors: The Ark of the Covenant
is a box which holds a source of creational light energy
that works as a generator or battery in our reality.
Creation takes place outside of the box.
How does one move 'out of the box' to find the true
source of the power or light that forms our reality? The box is also a vessel. Your physical form is often referred to as a vessel at the heart of which is your soul spark of light. When you move your consciousness 'out of the box'
you move out of your physical form.
We also have Jack in the BoX
who is the Clown, Trickster, Joker
who is linked to the elements of surprise
music, geometry and The Game of 3D.
When you think 'out of the box'
you can think beyond his Game.
The Sepher Yetsira (Sefer Yetzirah): Cube of Space
Does the box have many layers and dimensions?
Is(?) Humanity evolving out of the box and into the light of creation.
Friday, November 26, 2004
POW/MIA INTERNET BLACKOUT DAY
Back in August I made an early commitment to shut down the following sites for 24 hours, for the people who visit one or more of these sites I will from time to time be reminding you of this commitment I made and that these's sites will be closed:
http://millenniumgroup.4mg.com
http://virusnews.4mg.com
http://newport.4mg.com
http://oregon.4mg.com
http://pow-mia.4mg.com
To View The Page That Will Display Click Here
There will be NO redirect on these sites,
THEY WILL BE CLOSED.
Only the above banner will load.
All other sites will be open.
Thank You
Grinch
Couple points Grinchly finger at neighbors
MONTE SERENO, California (AP) -- For six years, Alan and Bonnie Aerts transformed their Silicon Valley home into a Christmas wonderland, complete with surfing Santa, jumbo candy canes and a carol-singing chorus of mannequins.
Visitors loved it.
Last year, after NBC's "Weekend Today" featured the $150,000 display of custom-designed props, more than 1,500 cars prowled the Aertses' cul-de-sac in this upscale San Jose suburb each night.
This year, though, the merry menagerie stayed indoors. Instead, on the manicured lawn outside the couple's Tudor mansion stands a single tiding: a 10-foot-tall Grinch with green fuzz, rotting teeth, and beet-red eyeballs.
The Aertses erected the smirking giant to protest the couple across the street -- 16-year residents Le and Susan Nguyen, who initiated complaints to city officials that the display was turning the quiet neighborhood into a Disneyesque nightmare.
Alan Aerts, who makes sure the Grinch's spindly finger points directly to the Nguyens' house, says the complaints killed the exhibit. They also violated the Christmas spirit, he said.
"When I grew up, people decorated everything -- it was wonderful to be a kid," said the 48-year-old soft drink distributor and philanthropist. "If you can't even put up a display these days, what kind of people have we become?"
The Nguyens say that even after the Aertses hired a security guard to help direct traffic, the commotion kept them from having friends over for their own lower-key celebrations.
"We wake up to Christmas for about 45 days of the year," said Le Nguyen, 55. "You ever seen the movie 'Groundhog Day?' It's just like that."
The exhibition's death knell came last year, when the Nguyens collected 90 signatures of protest from residents, and the city council voted to require a permit for any exhibit lasting longer than three days.
Mayor Erin Garner voted against it, saying he thought the Aertses provided a community service.
"It will be a crying shame if (Alan) doesn't put his holiday lights up this year," he told the San Jose Mercury News.
After studying the application process, the Aertses decided the usual display wasn't worth the hassle.
So Alan Aerts, a 6-foot-5 amateur body builder, commissioned the $2,500 motorized Grinch statue, which waves its arms and emits steam as a raspy tenor belts out, "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
Susan Nguyen, 52, is unmoved.
"It was oppressive," she said. "Maybe not if you just spent 10 minutes admiring it from your car, but if you lived next door, it was definitely oppressive."
Ahhhh, the true meaning of Christmas displayed by these folks.......
trivia from a twisted mind
Thursday, November 25, 2004
Nigerian Loan Scams - 419 Scam
Nigerian Loan Scams - 419 Scam Information
Nigerian, or "419", scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes. The scam messages can also arrive via fax or letter. The messages generally claim that your help is needed to access a large sum of money, usually many millions of dollars. In fact, this money does not exist. The messages are an opening gambit designed to draw potential victims deeper into the scam. Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to the scam messages will eventually be asked for advance fees supposedly required to allow the deal to proceed. They may also become the victims of identity theft.
For More Information, click on the Internet and Phone Scams Icon on the left toolbar of this page.
Nigerian, or "419", scams are one of the most common types of fraudulent email currently hitting inboxes. The scam messages can also arrive via fax or letter. The messages generally claim that your help is needed to access a large sum of money, usually many millions of dollars. In fact, this money does not exist. The messages are an opening gambit designed to draw potential victims deeper into the scam. Those who initiate a dialogue with the scammers by replying to the scam messages will eventually be asked for advance fees supposedly required to allow the deal to proceed. They may also become the victims of identity theft.
For More Information, click on the Internet and Phone Scams Icon on the left toolbar of this page.
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Holiday Travel
Are you traveling tomorrow ?
Have friends and/or family coming in ?
Weather Links Click On Them
National Interstate Road Conditions
F.A.A. Air Traffic Control System Command Center (Airport Conditions)
Interactive National Severe Weather Map
Happy Holidays
Have friends and/or family coming in ?
Weather Links Click On Them
National Interstate Road Conditions
F.A.A. Air Traffic Control System Command Center (Airport Conditions)
Interactive National Severe Weather Map
Happy Holidays
Thanksgiving Post Day 2
THANKSGIVING DINNER
ETIQUETTE TIPS
After tasting the turkey never ask,"Is this Cosco?"
There is an old saying that fish and visitors stink after 3 days. We at Comedyzine also have a saying. Never tell any of your fellow guests that they smell like fish.
If the turkey is too dry, it is okay to spit on your turkey however refrain from spitting on your neighbor's turkey.
Do not blow your nose on the tablecloth. You may use the tablecloth as a napkin by tucking it into your pants. It is important to remove the tablecloth from your pants when leaving the table.
Keys, purses and briefcases should be kept off the dinner table at all times. Same goes for cats, ant farms, used hyperdermic needles, anything furry and moving and missing digits from deceased family members.
Refrain from speaking with your mouth full. If you must speak, spit your food out on the carpet and then say whatever is on your mind.
Remember to keep your elbows off the table and to sit up straight. If you have doubts about where your hands belong then just put them in your lap.
If you find a hair in your soup, eat around it. Same goes for a toupee.
If you have a food particle trapped in your teeth, do not pick at it with your fork. You could put a hole in your cheek. The unsightly hole and the huge amount of blood loss will not only be embarrassing, it will also make it more difficult to enjoy your meal. Also a knife works better.
Feel free to smoke at the dinner table. If you need an ashtray just use the glass of the person sitting next to you. Preferably when he/she is looking the other way.
If you need to take medication while at the table, no explanations are necessary. However if you require a blood transfusion during dinner, it is appropriate to let the host/hostess know beforehand.
Always pass the food to your right. Even if there is no one on your right and in doing so you would be dropping food on the floor. Remember, etiquette first.
It is impolite to salt your food before tasting it. It is also considered impolite to regurgitate your food after tasting it.
Never juggle your cutlery.
If you happen to pass gas at the table, always blame the dog. If they have no dog then blame the person next to you. Never blame the goldfish.
Only AFTER dinner is it appropriate for you to do your 'pull the tablecloth without disturbing any of the dishes' trick. Remember even if the trick fails, a broken dish is one less dish to wash.
It is rude to salt and pepper your food before tasting it. It is really rude to salt and pepper the food of the person next to you, unless of course you tasted it first.
Never ask the hostess for ketchup.
Refrain from the ventriloquist act yelling "ouch" as if it came from the turkey as it is carved.
Don't use the chainsaw to carve the turkey.
ETIQUETTE TIPS
After tasting the turkey never ask,"Is this Cosco?"
There is an old saying that fish and visitors stink after 3 days. We at Comedyzine also have a saying. Never tell any of your fellow guests that they smell like fish.
If the turkey is too dry, it is okay to spit on your turkey however refrain from spitting on your neighbor's turkey.
Do not blow your nose on the tablecloth. You may use the tablecloth as a napkin by tucking it into your pants. It is important to remove the tablecloth from your pants when leaving the table.
Keys, purses and briefcases should be kept off the dinner table at all times. Same goes for cats, ant farms, used hyperdermic needles, anything furry and moving and missing digits from deceased family members.
Refrain from speaking with your mouth full. If you must speak, spit your food out on the carpet and then say whatever is on your mind.
Remember to keep your elbows off the table and to sit up straight. If you have doubts about where your hands belong then just put them in your lap.
If you find a hair in your soup, eat around it. Same goes for a toupee.
If you have a food particle trapped in your teeth, do not pick at it with your fork. You could put a hole in your cheek. The unsightly hole and the huge amount of blood loss will not only be embarrassing, it will also make it more difficult to enjoy your meal. Also a knife works better.
Feel free to smoke at the dinner table. If you need an ashtray just use the glass of the person sitting next to you. Preferably when he/she is looking the other way.
If you need to take medication while at the table, no explanations are necessary. However if you require a blood transfusion during dinner, it is appropriate to let the host/hostess know beforehand.
Always pass the food to your right. Even if there is no one on your right and in doing so you would be dropping food on the floor. Remember, etiquette first.
It is impolite to salt your food before tasting it. It is also considered impolite to regurgitate your food after tasting it.
Never juggle your cutlery.
If you happen to pass gas at the table, always blame the dog. If they have no dog then blame the person next to you. Never blame the goldfish.
Only AFTER dinner is it appropriate for you to do your 'pull the tablecloth without disturbing any of the dishes' trick. Remember even if the trick fails, a broken dish is one less dish to wash.
It is rude to salt and pepper your food before tasting it. It is really rude to salt and pepper the food of the person next to you, unless of course you tasted it first.
Never ask the hostess for ketchup.
Refrain from the ventriloquist act yelling "ouch" as if it came from the turkey as it is carved.
Don't use the chainsaw to carve the turkey.
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Thanksgiving Post Day 1
HOW THANKSGIVING DAY HAS CHANGED IN MODERN TIMES
The pilgrims started Thanksgiving Day by breaking thanksgiving bread with the Indians. Today many Americans enjoy Thanksgiving Day gambling in Indian Casinos losing all their bread.
President Truman started the tradition of the President of the United States pardoning the White House turkey as a gesture of goodwill. Starting with President Clinton after he pardons the turkey, Republicans call for the Attorney General to appoint an independent counsel to investigate why he pardoned the turkey.
When Thanksgivings Day began it was a time when people shared their food with Indians. Today we pay disrespect to Indians by naming football teams such as the Redskins after their ethnicity and watching Cowboys.
Originally the Pilgrims had thanksgiving as a day of prayer. Today American still consider it a day of prayer as they pray for their favorite football team to win.
Thanksgiving started as the season to give thanks for our union with our families. Today we give thanks not just for our families but for our stepfather's families and our stepmother's families. We celebrate our dysfunctional families as a truly American phenomenon.
Click Here To See The Village Turkeys
Ckick Here To See The Mice Praying
The pilgrims started Thanksgiving Day by breaking thanksgiving bread with the Indians. Today many Americans enjoy Thanksgiving Day gambling in Indian Casinos losing all their bread.
President Truman started the tradition of the President of the United States pardoning the White House turkey as a gesture of goodwill. Starting with President Clinton after he pardons the turkey, Republicans call for the Attorney General to appoint an independent counsel to investigate why he pardoned the turkey.
When Thanksgivings Day began it was a time when people shared their food with Indians. Today we pay disrespect to Indians by naming football teams such as the Redskins after their ethnicity and watching Cowboys.
Originally the Pilgrims had thanksgiving as a day of prayer. Today American still consider it a day of prayer as they pray for their favorite football team to win.
Thanksgiving started as the season to give thanks for our union with our families. Today we give thanks not just for our families but for our stepfather's families and our stepmother's families. We celebrate our dysfunctional families as a truly American phenomenon.
Click Here To See The Village Turkeys
Ckick Here To See The Mice Praying
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