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MickC @ August 24, 2006 # No Comment Yet
FROM BASIL
“My mother died when I was a baby and since then, my father took me so special.”
That’s just wrong on so many levels. And every time I see it (and I get a lot of 419 email) it gives me the heebie-jeebies.
MickC @ August 23, 2006 # No Comment Yet
There’s something lacking here.
Oh, I know what it is. Consent!
And I only did this to you because someone (who shall remain nameless) provided a link to this monstrosity.
MickC @ August 22, 2006 # 5 Comments
The Fertility Gap - Discussion of a political problem for the Democrats that sounds a whole lot like James Taranto’s “Roe Effect”
MickC @ August 21, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Just a couple of quick links. SEC sues over stock market spam scam
A US couple have been charged over an allegation they made $1m via a stock market pump-and-dump scam, promoted using spam emails.
Jeffrey Stone, 42, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and his missus Janette Diller Stone face a civil lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission [...]
MickC @ August 21, 2006 # No Comment Yet
For a while, this blog was listed on BlogExplosion. Then I changed WordPress themes and requested a new thumbnail be taken.
That’s when the trouble began. First I was notified that not only would a thumbnail not be taken, but that my blog had been “denied” because of some issue with javascript on the [...]
MickC @ August 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released stats on the most dangerous jobs in the country. It doesn’t count combat deaths, and some of the jobs listed are the glamour jobs that come complete with their own reality tv shows like The Deadliest Catch.
But there are other jobs that are thankless jobs. [...]
MickC @ August 16, 2006 # No Comment Yet
When Jerry Orbach died, I revealed that my father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. His radiation therapy went well and now we’re just waiting the time out until he’s a five-year survivor. So far, so good.
Tonight, though, my mom called and informed me that her father, my grandfather, underwent a biopsy last [...]
MickC @ August 16, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Accused Wi-Fi thief pleads to trespass
This is the guy who sat outside a coffee shop using their free wi-fi but wouldn’t ever come in and buy a cup.
MickC @ August 11, 2006 # No Comment Yet
This appears to be the result of a bit of a squabble between a privately held organization and the government. It’s a squabble that I know next to nothing about and don’t really care about either.
Nevertheless, this is important enough that it needs to be spread, so I’m going to mention it here.
The nation’s [...]
MickC @ August 7, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Don’t care much about the content, but the headline is just funny.
Microsoft Takes LSD to Test Vista Security
By Ryan Naraine
August 4, 2006
In an unprecedented move for the Redmond-based software giant, Microsoft recruits the "Last Stage of Delirium" hacking group that discovered the flaw that caused the Blaster worm.
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