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Only $260 for $2.3M?!? Hook, line & sinker

Posted June 19, 2010 at 12:08 am in General | No Comments

The following e-mail was sitting in my Spam folder and I thought it seemed like a good read. After all, it is from the Director of the FBI, Mr. Robert S. Mueller III. A quick summary of my favorite parts include:

  • “As a result of this we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us”
  • “We guarantee 100% receipt of your payment, because we have perfected everything in regards to the release of your Two million and three hundred thousand us dollars to be 100% risk free and free from any hitches as its our duty to protect citizens of the United States of America”
  • The portion where I am provided with two FedEx tracking numbers to help “prove” that people are receiving their money (both “packages” were received Nov 11, 2009 — one in Stillwater, OK and the other in Baltimore, MD).
  • “Help stop cyber crime.”

Now that’s what I like to call going above and beyond the call of duty. Without further ado, the e-mail: Continue reading..

Remedying the Windows dual-boot clock

Posted June 13, 2010 at 8:17 am in General | No Comments

If you have a dual-boot setup and are switching back and forth between Windows (XP in my case) and Linux/OS X you’ll notice that Windows is unable to set the clock to the correct time after switching from Linux/OS X to Windows. This can be a real headache at times when you look at the clock and think it’s 5 hours later in the day than it actually is. Continue reading..

A pitch to Google

Posted June 11, 2010 at 11:59 pm in General | No Comments

This post is a bit off-topic from the rest of the blog but I pitched an idea to Google that I thought would be an interesting project. I’m not certain that something like this doesn’t already exist or that maybe the idea had already been thought of but pushed aside for one reason or another but my idea goes a little something like this…

Google Maps provides a vast amount of information regarding the current state of the world. For instance, I can browse to my hometown of Milwaukee and find the names of roads, freeways, places of interest, lakes, rivers, harbors, parks, national forests, neighborhoods, universities, public and federal buildings, and so much more. I haven’t even bothered with the fact that I can include options such as photos, videos, web cams, traffic, Wikipedia links, and others. Continue reading..

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