May 2009

Fun with spam

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Surprisingly a piece of spam mail made it into my GMail account. It doesn't have any advertisements for it or anything, and it appears it came through AOL.

The text, as well as the layout is quite puzzling.

 

The full text is below:

Swine Flu It is pretty disturbing.

Swine Flu

It is pretty disturbing.

Instead of the typical FAIL, I went in this direction.

Instead of the typical FAIL, I went in this direction.

My MacBook Pro sometimes makes this grinding sound. I...

My MacBook Pro sometimes makes this grinding sound. I don’t think it’s the hard drive. It might be a fan or something. It makes me worried. :-\

Anyone else having the same sounds eminating out of their MacBook Pro?

Sorry the audio is so bad, I recorded it on my iphone.

Tip: Fix stupid IE8 errors: force compatibility mode

Internet Explorer is Stupid

IE has never liked Javascript very much, and IE8 will be rolled out soon. Many nice Javascript elements that I commonly use don't work yet in IE8, such as Shadowbox and BeautyTips.

This blog/site runs on Drupal and I use modules to handle my Shadowbox and BeautyTips needs, however these haven't been updated to the latest and greatest versions of their stand alone counterparts so they don't yet work in IE8.

Computer is one cute cat.

Computer is one cute cat.

It's really sad that...

It’s really sad that I’m feeling too sick and crappy to go to the bank and deposit a few thousand dollars.