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MickC @ December 28, 2005 # No Comment Yet

This blog has been upgraded to WordPress 2.0 RC3.  We do host several others, but I’m going to play with this one first to make sure that the others won’t break.
One thing that I’m going to like about the new WordPress 2.0 is the return of the uploading to the post composition page.  Be ready [...]

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Graz Green Party Prompts Schwarzenegger to Tell Hometown to Stop Using His Name

MickC @ December 20, 2005 # One Comment

After last week’s execution of Tookie Williams, the Greens in Graz started a movement to strip California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger of:

his Austrian citizenship;
the honor of having a local sports stadium bear his name; and,
the “ring of honor” given to him in 1999 for having put Graz “on the map.

This was a movement probably doomed to [...]

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NC Jumps on the Bandwagon

MickC @ December 19, 2005 # 2 Comments

Last Friday, I mentioned that Florida’s Attorney General has sued a spammer as a result of information turned over in during discovery in a suit against a now discredited fuel booster.
Well, now North Carolina has jumped on the bandwagon

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How romantic is a romantic chat room?

MickC @ December 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet

The answer, apparently, is “not very.”
The cause of the conclusion:
Beacon Journal | 12/19/2005 | Internet, civil liberties collide in unique lawsuit
Medina, Ohio - A Medina County man who says he was humiliated online by two other participants in a romance chat room has sued the alleged miscreants, as well as America Online for refusing to [...]

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Server Updated

MickC @ December 19, 2005 # No Comment Yet

We’re a Macromedia, um, an Adobe shop around here because we just love ColdFusion.
So, while doing some morning reading at the Internet News Blog, I came across an eWeek story which linked, in turn to a security hotfix announcement: Macromedia - MPSB05-12 : Sandbox Security and CFMAIL Vulnerability in ColdFusion MX 6.X
One of the issues [...]

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Sheehan Leads War Protest in Spain

MickC @ December 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet

Sheehan Leads War Protest in Spain
Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, called Bush a war criminal and said, “Iraq is worse than Vietnam.”
Sheesh. Will this woman ever give up? Given the elections that just happened, the only way that Iraq is worse than Vietnam is if you’re rooting for America’s enemies.

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Florida Sues Spammer

MickC @ December 18, 2005 # 2 Comments

Florida Sues Spammer Touting Bogus Fuel Saver
Now you might think that this is just another spammer getting sued for selling fraudulent products. But, you would be wrong. This isn’t just another spammer getting sued because he is selling the wrong thing. No, this suit is against the spammer for spamming.
The Federal Trade [...]

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The Cincinnati Post - Police dog is defendant in lawsuit

MickC @ December 15, 2005 # No Comment Yet

The Cincinnati Post - Police dog is defendant in lawsuit
“That dog could’ve done something to me or one of my attendants,” said Wayne Francis Green, 46, of Albany, who filed the suit Nov. 18 in Athens County Common Pleas Court.
Green, who is representing himself, alleges that a search of his furniture business in 2003 was [...]

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If Democrats aren’t anti-Christian…

MickC @ December 12, 2005 # One Comment

Delta Mike Charlie says : If Democrats aren’t anti-Christian, then I’m not sure who is…
This deserves a link just to show that the party of universal love is more like the party of the anti-Christ.
Now, I don’t mean that in the sense given by the Left Behind books. I mean that in the sense [...]

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Spammers lose suit

MickC @ December 6, 2005 # No Comment Yet

According to this story, a Florida judge has ruled against two spammers who broke Florida’s anti-spam law.
They are under an injunction against sending any further deceptive e-mail and Internet activities that violate Florida’s 2004 anti-spam law, the federal CAN-SPAM Act or Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. They will also have to pay [...]

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