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Thursday, January 29, 2004:
This is just too cute to be true: plush microbes.
Haggis // 12:20 PM
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004:
This blog, which is hardly about Visual Basic at all, does show up in second place when searching for 'vbasic' on MSN Search.
Haggis // 5:12 AM
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I think I know how spammers are trying to evade spamming filters. I got an e-mail with two images, one of how I should visit a certain site that teaches me all about 'raking in the profits' with eBay, and another with an unsubscribe option. The text in between is what makes it interesting though; simple spam filters would probably regard this as a normal story:
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Haggis // 5:09 AM
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004:
http://www.oscars.com/nominees/nomineelist.html
Haggis // 12:36 PM
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Monday, January 26, 2004:
Also, I did do the studying today. Yay for me.
Haggis // 6:35 AM
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Getting hundreds of companies worldwide into trouble can earn you a cute knighthood.
Haggis // 6:34 AM
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Friday, January 23, 2004:
...or maybe tomorrow. ;)
Haggis // 9:17 AM
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Oh dear, Nintendo is in trouble now.
Also, I will from now on use this blog to help me get motivated. I find that I am already behind on my schedule concerning the translating study, and I don't know how to get me motivated at all. This is a problem. My solution is to combine studying with one of my hobbies: blogging. By posting my progress, I press myself to live up to my blog posts. Example: Today, yes, today, I will resume with a speaking exercise, and I'll try to do as many lessons as I possibly can. Then, and only then when I have done so, I can reward myself with playing around with the LOTR Online Trading Card Game again. Yes, it's kinda cool, although trading card games are almost beyond my comprehension. All you have to do is read. 'kay?
Haggis // 6:25 AM
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Wednesday, January 21, 2004:
Okay, I feel that I have to keep this blog updated, if necessary with utter crap. Today I finally got an e-mail message saying that they are able to ship my Limited Edition Andúril sword. Yes, you read that right, I'm crazy. Anyway, I think I'm happy now. Um. Woo.... hoo. Yeah.
Haggis // 1:22 PM
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Thursday, January 15, 2004:
Sounds like Kazaa with a web interface to me.
Haggis // 6:09 AM
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Monday, January 12, 2004:
According to some test my IQ is 136 and I'm a Visionary Philosopher. Blah.
Haggis // 5:02 AM
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Sunday, January 11, 2004:
Apparently there are people (well, one so far) who type marriage russian naked lady into MSN Search and end up on my site.
Haggis // 12:59 PM
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Oh dear, oh dear. A post about my life. Updating you all (all?) with (dis?)information about my thing called life. It's hectic, I think. I try to study as much as I can (hardly ever) towards the (Dutch-)English(-Dutch) translating business. Other than that, I spend my time reading (not much), drawing (my latest piece), and blogging. And doing stuff. Being me, I don't know. I'll write more interesting/original stuff when I'm actually more awake than asleep. Oh yeah, and I want to be a writer when I grow up (no, I haven't yet).
Haggis // 12:52 PM
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Friday, January 09, 2004:
I want a device. A GPS tracking device. With stickers I can put on all my stuff. You see, I keep losing some of my valuable junk, and it would be cool if I could have this device point me to the sticker that corresponds with the item I want to find.
Of course I would have to put the stickers on the proper goods... and I'd need an extra GPS device in order to not lose the original device... yes.
Haggis // 9:47 AM
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Wednesday, January 07, 2004:
You can now register a new kind of domain... thing... introducing the .EU domain
Haggis // 10:10 AM
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Monday, January 05, 2004:
By the way, if you get any spoof/scam/fake/whatever e-mails that claim to be from eBay, you can see on this page what you should do: http://pages.ebay.com/education/spooftutorial/index.html
Haggis // 3:47 AM
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Crap, these spammers are getting more and more sophisticated:
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:44:35 -0800
From: "eBay" [support@ebay.com]
Subject: eBay Notice
Reply To: "eBay" [support@ebay.com]
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Please click here to update your billing records.
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbay=accountupdate/
The above link will take you to http://www.commandosxp.net/ - obviously a fake page.
Thank you for your time!
Happy New Years,
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Haggis // 3:33 AM
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Friday, January 02, 2004:
Hey all, I'm looking for someone to write a blog with me. Yes, I want to co-operate with someone, to make an interesting blog, together. Interested? Let me know by commenting. Not interested? Let me know by commenting.
Haggis // 6:42 AM
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