Teach your children well

This scares me. It should scare you too.

From the "That's just not right" department

Twinkie sushi.

Some thing should never be...

Like certain people posing for teen magazines.

Hello Kitty - the Ferrari

It's just a picture that has been Photoshopped, but it is a picture that made at least me stop and shiver for a second.

My findings with DSPAM

I did not get as far as I would've liked with my installation of the DSPAM spam filter, mostly because of poor documentation. I got to the point where I just needed to set up a proxy for my POP mail accounts. The DSPAM documentation isn't immediately clear on whether it can act as a POP proxy, if you need a separate program for that, or if you can go either way. As it turns out, the other program, pop3filter, was needed. After looking over the pop3filter documentation for setting it up to use DSPAM a few times, I could not find anything showing me how I would be able to send mail back to DSPAM for training. Maybe they are seeing one computer acting as a mail server on a local network and the POP proxy for the local computers on that network. I don't know, but it was very frustrating.

Pirate Museum Opens in Florida

They've opened up a pirate museum in Florida and used a sword for the ribbon cutting ceremony. I would definitely be interested in seeing this if I ever visit Florida.

Wendy's does something cool

It looks like Wendy's has just started a change with their combo menu. Now, instead of fries, you can choose to have one of their side salads, chili, or sour cream and chives baked potato instead. This is great when you want something more than a hamburger but don't want the calories and fat that come from fries.

The trouble(?) with SBC DSL

Sunday afternoon found it almost impossible to get any online task done as well as this evening. Instant messaging clients would suddenly lose its connection with a server. Browsing websites would time out, but trying to get to the site over and over would eventually allow me to get to a website. After hitting send on an e-mail it would take a couple minutes until my e-mail program would finally have the e-mail sent.

I've been having a number of on and off connection issues with SBC since October and I just have to wonder if it's only me who is having things get worse. I have e-mailed an ISP I might switch to, but surprisingly their sales staff hasn't responded to my e-mail yet, and it has been 24 hours.