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My Love Language
January 31st, 2008
Charity posted this quiz on her LJ, so I decided to take it and see how it rated me. About this quiz Unhappiness in relationships is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. It can be helpful to know what language you speak and what language those around you speak. Tag [...]
Malware spreading through MSN Messenger (mainmsn.com) – update
January 24th, 2008
I did some more looking around on the net and found this tidbit over at geeklens.com which is an affiliate site for 000webhost.com, the web host for mainmsn.com. Mainmsn.com appears to be the 2nd most popular site hosted by 000webhost.com. (as of today) http://mainmsn.com Setup on 2007-12-19, its 37 day ago, and currently has about [...]
Malware spreading through MSN messenger?
January 23rd, 2008
I just got an IM from a friend on my MSN messenger account that appears to be some sort of backdoor IRC bot. (05:18:39 PM) UnamedFriend: Hey, isn’t this YOU?? :S http://mainmsn.com/images/viewimage.php?=myusername@hotmail.com (05:30:55 PM) Jordan: Are you there? (05:35:35 PM) Jordan: I think you might be infected with a virus I changed the above url [...]
Data portability
January 15th, 2008
I just came across this video while reading this post on the Network Security Blog. The video emphasizes what I feel when registering on all of these social networking sites – a mixture of monotony and maybe a little annoyance or just a feeling that I’m wasting my time link. Edit: I think embedding the [...]
Solving Information Overload
January 3rd, 2008
I just saw this today after reading Franz P.’s comment about how he found my post. I did a search for “information overload” to see if I could find my post on Google. I looked through the first five pages and didn’t see my post, but I did find this: Cure Information Overload Using Google [...]
Information overload
January 2nd, 2008
I’ve noticed that I easily get distracted from what I’m doing when on my computer, be it reading my emails, school work, or other important things. I also tend to spend too much time reading interesting and informative articles online. And to top things off, I feel this compulsion to read every single new item [...]