Just general thoughts and outburts…
Yes my son made the paper! It’s only a little local paper, but still it’s neat. They went to a volunteer fire department street fair a couple weeks ago and they snapped his picture.
The thumbnail cuts off the picture, but if you click it it gets bigger and you can read the caption..
I’m a Coke drinker myself, and I don’t like Pepsi at all. Today though I was at the gas station and they had bottles of Pepsi Throwback so I thought I’d grab one thinking maybe real sugar might help the taste.
And Nope, I still don’t like Pepsi with corn syrup or without.
I do like Mountain Dew Throwback, it does taste better than regular Mountain Dew.
For now I’ll just stick with my Coke, in cans, not bottles. Yes I’m picky, it does taste different.
Hokey is at again, he’s certainly not camera shy that’s for sure! As soon as I look away up he jumps and just gets all comfortable, he just doesn’t care what I’m doing…
wow.. that was interesting..
someone from Italy with the IP 194.20.144.230 just attempted to guess my password and user name 86 times in less than three minutes..
Specifically they were in Veneto, Conegliano and they live off of Via Pompeo Molmenti road, or street.. and their ISP is Netscalibur S.p.A.
I love this little plugin I have that sends me and email with ip address and info of what they tried to use..
they were trying thing like the username of Admin, but passwords like calvin, qwerty,kate, arthur, carlos, testtest, administrator…
oh well.. but they stopped at 86 tries… fun-fun
Edit.. now we’re up to 126 attempts… do people actually use passwords like 1234567, and 654321 ?! that’s just stupid.. the best has to be ‘administatorpassword’ as the password!
When you get stuff for review, sometimes companies send along promo stuff and the other day I got an HDD rack for review from iStar and they sent along a T-Shirt (which was too small), a Pen and a deck of playing cards. I didn’t think much of the cards until I opened them to discover that each card has a product on it.. I think they’re kind of neat.. so here’s a few pics of them..
Link to them:
Hey AMD/ATI fix the damn cursor problem that you’ve had for over a year now..
I thought it was a video card issue, but I’ve got two 4870 cards and one 4890 card and they all do it when running windows 7. The cursor gets all weird and big when running ATI cards on Windows 7..
ATI and AMD have known about the problem but apparently just refuse to fix it.
The only fix I have is to turn Pointer Trails on or click the box for Display Pointer Trails and then slide the slider all the way to the left for short trails. The trails are not really visible at all, and I haven’t had the problem with the big cursor either.
Still though ATI/AMD needs to fix the issue.. if you hop over to their forums you’ll find many posts on the subject with a lot of unhappy customers..
I love my job, I do really.. but sometimes I just don’t understand how companies work…
When you’re a reviewer, you get a lot of cool stuff to keep, then there are some companies who don’t let you keep the stuff…
I’ve gotten to keep things that cost hundreds of dollars, and then I’ve had to send things back that cost as little as $30
I’ll never understand the policies for as long as I do this..
Most all companies tell you upfront that they want the product back, and many companies even make you sign an agreement about how long you have the item for. it’s nice to know up front that you have to return something. Some companies will tell you after you let them know the review is finished that they want it back, that can be annoying, but it’s not too big of a deal…
I just had a company email me almost 4 months later asking for the product back.. never said nothing at the start, never mentioned it after I told them the review was live, nothing at all about returning it until now.. the best part is that they now want me to pay to ship it back to them.. every company I’ve eve3n dealt with has given me a shipping label or provided an account number to ship it back to them..
I won’t mention the company, but it’s a product that I happen to like a lot and have been using and have it set the way I need it to be..
ruined my day…. blah