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Under the cut, a clip of Kiriya from Kamen Rider Hibiki. It's from episode 48 (and therefore spoilery), but those who want to see Kiriya in action (same actor who plays Yuuto in Den-O) can.

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Happy Birthday, obsessivemuch!

AOL and the sidekick are having disagreements. I can't sign on or off from the sidekick, and it looks like my SN is signed on. Don't try to say hi to me, because I'm not there.

ETA: It's fixed now. Turning the sidekick off for ten minutes killed the connection. Still, it was weird.

I bought my Sidekick. Now, even though I have no power, at least I can chat via IM.

I'm better today than yesterday - no chills, no fever, a bit of lightheadedness (but not enough to keel me over), and of course, I sound like I have a cold, but my throat hasn't been overly sore. Got through the day with grape juice. Am glad for concentrate.

Off to bed early to get plenty of rest.

1. Installed 10.3.8 on computer. Now cannot use USB ports (neither scanner nor palm pilot register).
2. Fedex delivered my Sidekick to someplace halfway across town.

Aaargh.

ETA: Well, a pair of reboots fixed problem #1 (but give it a day or two more, Mandi). Now if a pair of reboots would explain why Fedex sent my Sidekick to the wrong address.

There was something in my email a few days ago, purporting to be from e-gold.com, containing an attachment to be run. Now, I'm pretty savvy about this sort of thing - I don't click on a link, I type in the web address to prevent phishing attacks. I checked the website, and they did mention phishing, like any good website, but it didn't mention this item, so I decided to email them. This was their response:

"The email you received was not sent by e-gold Ltd. It was a fraudulent
attempt to compromise e-gold accounts through a scam known as "Phishing".
e-gold never send unsolicited emails asking customers to click on a link or
an attachment in an email. If you clicked on the link or attachment, there
is a strong possibility you may have a Trojan virus on your computer. For
more information you may want to review the security recommendations listed
on the e-gold security alert page on the e-gold website."

Duh. I did read their page, and I also *specified in my email* that I was on a Mac! (Techinically, I could probably find a way to run the program, but that's for another post)

*headdesk*

This evening, while Beth and I were working on the commentary for Building Family: Utopia, someone knocked on my door, rather urgently.

It turns out it was some guy named Corey, looking for Alyssa. I think that that was the name of the teenaged girl who used to live here.

Needless to say, since he was pounding on the door somewhat heavily (and I was not wearing anything heavier than a light nightgown, so I didn't want to open it), that I was scared. But at least he finally realized that the person he was looking for was not there and went away.

The only explanation I could think of is that since my bedroom light was out (power still has to be fixed), where the parents' bedroom was, and the living room light was *on*, and no car in their parking spot, he might have thought that her parents had gone off for the night, and wanted to visit her. (She was a bit of a wild child, apparently, per my upstairs neighbor.)

Still, I think he should have gotten a clue very quickly when I was totally confused on why someone was pounding on my door at 6:40 in the evening.

I mean, don't you usually *check* to see if your friend still lives there before knocking on a possible stranger's door?!?

For those rare instances where the computer gets stuck upon disconnecting. Hopefully I won't need it for too much longer.

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21941

One: I've discovered that there's this lovely program called "Space.app" which creates virtual windows. Which is rather useful when you don't want to crowd your screen and switch between windows when you're browsing the web and reading a PDF. Among other things. I'll try to get a screen capture sometime soon.

Two, I found this lovely program called "DVD capture" which captures images from Apple's DVD app. I played with it tonight, one picture I captured being here. The capture in question is from the opening sequence from Hurricaneger (Think I got it spelled right), in case anyone finds it familiar.

Three, if I seem absent or not online very much for the next few (except for evenings), it's because my grandfather's in hospital and therefore I'm staying off the phone. It's not because he's in any danger, but he is in hospital and I don't want to be on the 'net if something happens.

Okay, realized at an obsene hour last night that I hadn't paid my rent, and the property management folks get kinda nasty about that. So trekked out of the apartment at 6:12 AM (only to miss the train that I was going to get) to walk down to said rental agency. Despite everything, I only managed to be 5 minutes late to work. Worked on about four hours of sleep.

No wonder it took a two-mile walk/jog plus two cups of coffee to keep me awake today.

Just finished reading news.admin.net-abuse.email. Apparently SPEWS (Spam Prevention Early Warning System), a blocklist advice site, decided to expand a listing for a spam provider. One of the websites in the expanded listing took umbrage at being listed and started bombing the newsgroup. (People are told to post there when they've cleaned up their spam problem.)

Can I mention how *stupid* this is? The listing for said site is now in hundreds of *private* blocklists, and several people got their accounts suspended for their behaviour on the newsgroup. There's nothing more that gives your site a bad name to the admins of the world than to attack n.a.n.a.e.

*shakes head*

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