I’ve added the ability to comment on the photos in my galleries. There is no comment spam protection, so depending on how long it takes them to find the form and how long I can stand deleting the spam comments, will determine how long the ability to leave comments stays open.
Pick a gallery, pick a picture and fire away…
Recently Yahoo updated / changed their email and it has resulted in a couple hundred percent increase of spam delivered to the MMC mailbox. So much so that I wondered if I had unintentionally shut off their “Spam Guard”, I hadn’t. What is most annoying is that the Club gets so few mails of importance to begin with…
Also, I think I will go ahead and kill the brian@mr-miata.net address as it has been attracting lots of spam lately too. I rarely used it anyway. I was going to get cute and try to obfuscate that email address, but what does it matter if it will no longer exist after tonight. So if you have that email in your address book go ahead and delete it. Try Brian_the_Red with the domain, OK?
Inspired by of all things, a WordPress plug-in, I have resumed my search for intelligent life in outer space. I reinstalled the BOINC software again, and have attached myself to the SETI@Home project again.
As a rule my PC sits here running 24/7 and although my wife thinks its more, I spent about 4 hours in front of it each day. The other 20 hours it idles, except for a few milliseconds when it checks for new SPAM every half hour. I have a love hate relationship with the SETI@Home project. I love the whole ide of it, but hate the fact that I always seem to have trouble reliably connecting to their servers to keep me in work units. (As is the case right now after rejoining 3/27/2007 10:02:59 PM||Access to reference site succeeded – project servers may be temporarily down.)
So as to not waste my previously wasted CPU cycles I also signed up to help out with Climateprediction.net which is trying to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century and Rosetta@home which is trying to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins.
Anyway, my SETI@Home credit stands right now at 68,853.20. If I ever get connected, download some work and crunch some numbers, that total will go up and you will be able to follow the progress, along with everyone else, over there in the sidebar. Of course if I do discover a signal from intelligent life on another planet, I’ll probably blog about it here.
And it goes without saying that if I ever discover a WordPress plug-in that monitors the search for intelligent life on this planet I’ll add it to the sidebar as well.
Each “stanza” came to me in a different email from a different sender, but they all wanted me to buy a stock with the symbol CBFE that was Trading at $1.55, Target of $4, Market of Bullish.
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Gets record gmtrecord records broken us, box.
Beans latest lucky yet married didnt.
Japan katie holmes laptop, lcd, microsoft mobile motorola?
Connelly magic johnson flipped, seeing biel.
Off laughter, later champagne glass!
And chunky is again back.
Didnt out thats reason whichadd premiere party standritu gmtxmen.
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CBFE is China Biolife Enterprises, Inc. and I found a press release on the web that they just hired a new president. The required waiver statement was longer than the press release and in some ways more poetic:
Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “may,” “intend,” “expect” and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. However, forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed, projected or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to price volatility of gold and other metals; currency fluctuations; political, operational, and governmental approval and regulation risks in China.
My spam count at work has been consistently over the century mark now for months. I haven’t even been reading the titles of the ones that our company’s spam filters catch anymore. I just check the total and hit delete. The other day I was in work early, so I thought I’d start the day with a couple of laughs.
Seems the new trend in spam titles is to grab a recent headline in the hopes you might open it to get some other insight.
U.S. gunships target al Qaeda suspects in Somalia
Hilary Swank: ‘Yes, I am in a relationship’
Gwynn, Ripken in Hall, McGwire misses
House Dems start ‘100-hour’ agenda
Neuwirth gets to ‘wiggle again’
Long winded subjects are all the rage too:
“or dentist has directed you to do so and is following your progress alone”
“of water to lessen stomach irritation Do not take this medicine torn”
“most medicines pass into breast milk in small amounts, many mentor”
Here is my favorite for today though:
You can send us the model of a replica watch that you desire and we will try to provide you with it.
What?
Here are some excerpts from a 3-page letter that came in the snail mail on Saturday for my deceased mother-in-law:
Dear Friend:
My name is Dick Hollman. In September 1991 my car was repossessed. Bill collectors were hounding me like crazy. I was laid off and unemployment ran out. In October I received a letter telling me how I could earn $800,000.00 anytime I wanted to!!! Of course I was skeptical, but because I was so desperate, and had nothing to lose I gave it a try. In January 1992, my family went on a ten day cruise and in February, bought an Escalade with cash. This program works perfectly as long as everybody is honest and enjoy not working again!!! THIS IS NOT A CHAIN LETTER!!! This is a perfectly legal money making opportunity. Please read the letter carefully, follow the instructions EXACTLY!!!!!
Whoever sent this forgot to advance the dates by a decade when they changed the vehicle purchased, Escalades weren’t manufactured until 1999.
1. Immediately send $1.00 US funds to each of the 6 names on this page.
Include with you dollar a request to be put on their mailing list. THIS IS THE CRITICAL STEP THAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM PERFECTLY LEGAL!!!!!
Bolding mine, doesn’t just putting this instruction in the letter invalidate this loophole?
4. Purchase a mailing list from DATA LINE, THEIR NUMBER IS 1800-497-2912. Ask for a list of opportunity seekers. This list is $40.00 and comes on address labels ready to go on envelopes. They will ship C.O.D. and take Master Card and Visa.
Internet searching reveals no company called DATA LINE that sells mailing lists. I also got no hits using a couple of toll free reverse look up directories for that number (I was scared to actually call it…) So this is probably not a way to scam people out of $40.
1)Steven Clewis
5453 Stewart Dr.
Virginia Beach, VA. 23464
…
6)Richard Creamer
Rt. 1 Box 2025
Ray City, GA.31645
The address label, a lick to apply kind, listed Mr. Creamer and that address. So, did Richard actually follow the written instructions in hopes of getting $800,000? Or did Steven Clewis have the return address labels printed up along with the
3. Copy or print 200 (or 500 if you are ambitious) copies of this 3 page letter.
in hopes of speeding up the income? As far as I can tell from my rudimentary internet searches, no one by the name of Steven Clewis lives at that address. There were 4 different names with 4 corresponding, but different, phone numbers that I could find listed at 5453 Stewart Dr.
Anyway, whoever hoped to profit from this “solicitation to join their mailing list” is going to be at least one buck shy of their goal as the letter went into our shredder. Right after I scanned it, so I wouldn’t have to retype these excerpts.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam & more spam.
In the last 2 weeks the spam filtering service we use for my work email address has only let through 7 non-work related messages while stopping 1085. Not bad, huh? I was averaging 67 pieces of spam for that period until the day before yesterday. Thursday morning when I got my report listing blocked mail the number was 104. Pretty high but I have been in that territory, the low 100’s before. But this morning’s report showed a big jump and a new record for a 24 hour period, 177. Lots of multiples of the same subject with different senders. Need some help? was the most sent with six. Simple way to enhance your sexual life. came in next with 5 emails. Then there were about a dozen with 4 and about that many with 3. My favorite subject was Grand message. You should to read. from verdnbs@altamar.com.ph. My favorite sender name was BuckNincompoop@steph.epipterygoid.com who asked Coke or Pepsi?