First, thanks to all that are helping me out with the cellphone thing. The only thing that will take some fiddling is getting the photos from Sprint PCS Vision phones, since they're sent as a funny embedded hyperlink (it's not hard to do, just something new), as well as stripping out all the different footers and other superfluous stuff inserted by the providers.
Below is the present that I got Rachel… It may not seem like a big deal but it's the first car I've gotten anyone that isn't secretly a present for me. I'm primarily into sportscars; SUVs aren't my thing unless they're cartoonish monster trucks — anyway, so those that know me well know this is a real gift.
It's a VW Toureg of course, V8 model, and it has the “convenience package” which is a weird set of “keyless” (the key has a transponder so it just has to be in your pocket) entry features, the “winter package” which means that everything is heated, and the nav system as well… That's kind of geeky cool at least. I think it's 310 HP so it's not bad for passing and so on as well.
I'm sure many of you saw that both Monkeys.com and blackhole.compu.net shut down their anti-spam services due to massive DDOS attacks and so on from pro-spam vigilantes. Anyway, they complain that they've:
...been the targets of 12,000+ bounced emails, Several hundred abuse complaints, and numerous threats against our selves, our servers, and our Internet connection.
Now, I'm not going to say that doesn't suck — it truly does. I get about 14,000 spams per day, probably about 4,000 bounced emails, and have regularly faced both threats on the server and threats on myself for running BME. BME is under pretty much constant DDOS attack; for years we've been running custom firewall software to detect and actively shut down these attacks. The last massive one started last night at 2:41 AM (that's when our software detected it anyway), and we had it shut down by about 3:19 AM. Those come probably on average of twice a day.
PS. I assume everyone knows this — most of the world knew it before the aggression — but report after report continues to state that Iraq had no WMDs. Oops. Sorry about all the killing.
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