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 3 people so they can find out what their love language is.

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Edit: I tagged Brittany, Jared, and Sarah

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 3027 visitors per day.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I submitted an “abuse” ticket to 000webhost.com. I immediately received an automated confirmation email from them stating that I would be contacted in 24 hours. It has been over 25 hours and still no word from them.

I just checked, and it looks like the name servers have changed for mainmsn.com, and the new ones are reporting “no records”.

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 to www.virustotal.com’s antivirus scan of the file.

Needless to say, I’m trying to contact that friend and let them know about their computer’s actions.

Update:

I attempted to contact the domain registrant of mainmsn.com via the whois contact info and the message bounced. I am now attempting to contact the company that mainmsn.com is using for its name servers. I also submitted the URL to Google’s Safe Browsing: Report a malware page

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 video messed up my template… I’ll just link to it.

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 Reader

Google’s feed reader has an option to sort the feeds by relevance. It’s only available if you go to “All items” and select “Sort by auto”. The cryptic name should mean that Google Reader “prioritizes the items based on their importance to you” by analyzing your reading patterns. – googlesystem.blogspot.com

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 in my RSS feed reader, and not just hitting the “mark as read” button after spending several hours trying to read it all. Too much of a good thing – too much information…

Wired is reporting that information overload is being predicted by some analysts as the problem of the year for 2008. “‘It’s too much information. It’s too many interruptions. It’s too much lost time,’ Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira declared. ‘It’s always too much of a good thing.’ Information overload isn’t exactly new, but Spira said the problem has grown as technology increases societal expectations for instantaneous response. And more information available, he said, also means more time wasted looking for the right information, whether in an old e-mail or through a search engine.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/26/2038218

I just turned off the web clips in my Gmail account, and I’m going to unsubscribe from the high-volume news feeds and try to be very selective in the feeds that I have, and I’ll probably limit my weekly time spent on feed reeding and extraneous browsing to 2 hours a week or less (for starters)…