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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Internet connection provided by Bend BroadBand. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 5150 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 15877 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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The AOL Idiots Keep ComingI've mentioned before that this site got a New York Times mention because of the idiots AOLers who keep commenting on this site. So far, that entry has gotten 177 comments, mostly from folks thinking I can cancel their AOL account (as much as I'd like to). Occasionally I get little one-line comments through my e-mail form on the right side of this page to the affect of "cancel my aol acct, plz" or something similar. But I had one today that just floored me (parts of it removed for obvious reasons): please cancel my aol account username [removed]Just for giggles, I logged it using the user/pass the guy sent me into AOL Mail, and sure enough, the user/pass works and the guy has 213 unread messages, and apparently this guy sent this message to some body else, as he has a message in his inbox from AOL saying that "You recently changed the Parental Controls setting for one of the Screen Names on your account to give it Master Screen Name capabilities." meaning that somebody is going to have some fun with the account. I logged the hell out as soon as I saw that, but I'm just totally floored how stupid some people can be. Posted by Jake on 11/28/05 @ 11:22 AM
Posted in Sad | 6 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 6 CommentsThe One True b!X said on 11/28/05 @ 12:23 PM:Deja vu. I remember people wigging about the influx of AOLers when the service first opened itself up to let its users access the Internet a decade or so ago. Heh. Paul said on 11/28/05 @ 05:03 PM: What's this? I thought UtterlyBoring.com was totally associated with AOL and that all you had to do, Jake, was simply hit the magic button to cancel their account. You should set up your Spam filter to automatically send an e-mail back to the sender saying "I'm not AOL, so bugger off" when 'AOL' appears in the body. :P Mark said on 11/28/05 @ 09:51 PM: Get a load of this post. Dude makes an innocuous post about going to see the Maury Povich show. People have been regularly commenting -- thinking they're talking to Maury -- for three and a half years. Aaron Wormus said on 11/29/05 @ 01:33 AM: The longer it is there, the more people comment on it, the more google indexes it, the higher rank it gets on google, the more people find it. World domination in 1 easy step. I have Yahoo people bugging me over here. Bryan M. said on 12/06/05 @ 04:47 PM: I have been amazed over the years at how many students leave their e-mail, AIM accounts, and even one time a bank account open on public lab computers and just ... walk off. loopy said on 01/24/07 @ 01:02 AM: Hey AOL... Nah, I don't want you to cancel my account, but... my cat's been kinda sick, and her litter box is WAY stinkier than usual. Could you send a tech guy over to clean that up for me?? I understand that this is not usually included in my AOL service, but c'mon... be a pal. Just this once? Post a comment |
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