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Friday the 13th -- And Tax Day -- Open Trackbacks

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 11:02 PM
Technorati Tags: Open Trackbacks

This open trackbacks post is for April 13 through April 15, 2007.

If you have something interesting you'd like to share, feel free to link it here and leave a trackback.

Just remember the trackback policy.

For the best exposure, go to the blogger's oasis and use the linkfest chooser to choose the posts you'd like to hook up with.

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Man I'm lucky!!!

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 1:08 PM
Technorati Tags: Annoyances

I was just notified by email that I won a lottery that I never even entered!!!

FOR CATEGORY "A" WINNER ONLY
COMPUTER BALLOT JACKPOT 'A' DRAW RESULT.

Dear Lucky Winner,
We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Free Lotto
International programs drawn today, 02/04/2007. Your E-mail address attached to
Ticket number:334/ 660078 with Serial number 05908 drew the lucky numbers
9-43-97, which consequently won in the 1st category, you have therefore
been approved for a lump sum payout of $1,500,000.00USDollars. (One
Million, Five Hundred United States Dollars).

This is from a total cash prize of US$125 million dollars shared
amongst the lucky winners in this grand category.

This year's Lottery Program Jackpot (LPJ) is the largest ever for Free
Lottery. The estimated $125 million jackpot would be the sixth biggest
in free lotto history. Please note that your lucky winning number falls
within our European booklet representative office in Europe as
indicated in our play coupon.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

In view of this, your US$1,500,000.00USDollars. (One Million, Five
Hundred United States Dollars). would be released to you by our affiliate Bank while our agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your prize soon as you make contact with them. All participants were selected randomly from 'World Wide Web' sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 100,000 companies.

This promotion takes place periodically. For security reasons, you are
advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims
is processed. This is a part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some unscrupulous elements.

To file for your claim, please contact our /your processing agent
CONTACT:
**********************************************
Paul Vanfrant
Email: loterijAdraws@aol.co.uk
spanishAdraws@aol.co.uk
Tel: +34-692-967-891

**********************************************
You are advice to provide him with the following information:
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Company (if any):
Winning reference and Batch numbers:

Congratulations once more from our members of staff and thank you for
being part of our promotional program.
Yours truly,
Walter Jones
Promotion Manager.
THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!

How lucky is that!

I'm fully aware that this is a scam. What I don't understand is how people can really be that gullible.

Here's a few fun things to notice. The numeric text that describes the amount I "won" says I won one million five hundred thousand dollars. The textual description of the amount is only one million five hundred dollars.

This fool is already trying to rip me off by US$499,500.00!

Second, I want to know why it took them over two months to notify me. I'm not THAT hard to find.

Third, I'm not exactly a grammarian, but even I could do better than "You are advice to provide".

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Microsoft set to anger another set of customers

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 9:17 AM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Annoyances

If you've been reading my blog, you know that I recently had a really bad experience with Windows Vista. Well, it looks like Microsoft has forgotten everything that Steve Balmer used to say about "Customer Love". Millions of people tested the beta and RC versions of Vista, and now some of them are about to get screwed just like I did:

April 11, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp. has begun reminding millions of testers of Windows Vista's beta and release candidate (RC) previews that their trial runs end on June 1.
Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft's antipiracy efforts, became the first company executive to note the impending deadline. "As a reminder to those that helped with Windows Vista beta testing, the beta installations are set to expire at the end of May 2007," said Hartje in a Q&A that Microsoft posted March 30 on its public relations Web site. "So customers need to decide if they want to move to Windows Vista or back to Windows XP if they have test versions of Windows Vista on their PCs."
Details on how best to do that, however, are scant. Despite repeated requests to clarify the exact procedure beta and RC users need to take -- and whether Microsoft will provide either guidance or offer a discount to testers -- the company declined to spell out its plans.
What information the company has published is on last year's Customer Preview Program (CPP) site, which points to the June 1 expiration date and explains that once installed, the Vista previews don't allow for operating system rollbacks. "You cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation -- you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows," the site reads.

Yes sir and ma'am. That's real customer love there. It gets even better...

Those hassles didn't sit well with some dedicated beta testers. "Do you mean to say that because I installed Vista RC2 over XP, I screwed myself out of upgrade pricing? If so, seems like MS is punishing beta testers," said a user labeled as "tom."

Others, however, brooked no whining. "You should've known better than to install a beta over your primary operating system/primary computer. Microsoft warned users not to do that," responded another poster identified as Michael.

Well, in my case, I didn't install a beta, and I didn't install a release candidate either. I installed the full retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate over XP. Microsoft didn't warn me not to do that, they encouraged it.

Microsoft's "most secure, most reliable OS yet" is a big, steaming pile of excrement. Installing this unstable abomination on my system was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. On the first day I began experiencing problems. Within a week I was experiencing major problems and crashes and finally the P.O.S. wouldn't even boot.

I was forced to wipe the machine and re-install Windows XP and all of my software. That was painful, it was expensive, and despite having been careful to make backups, I lost over five years worth of email and some other data that I really didn't want to lose.

And now it looks like Microsoft is getting ready to provide the same sort of fun to millions of beta testers.

This company has fallen a long, long way from their better days.

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Stop The Government From Funding The Destruction of Human Life

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 9:00 AM
Technorati Tags: Abortion, Liberals, Democrats

I've been informed by Jay Sekulow at the American Center for Law and Justice that in January the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.3) with a vote of 253 to 174 to designate federal funds to destroy human embryos for the purpose of stem cell research. Now the Senate has passed S.5, for the same purpose.

If you believe that this is wrong, as I do, go to their website and sign the petition. Let's make sure that this abomination is vetoed as quickly as possible.

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Thursday Open Trackbacks

Published Thu, Apr 12 2007 12:38 AM
Technorati Tags: Open Trackbacks

This open trackbacks post is for April 12, 2007.

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