Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Got this sent my way from Barney:
The other day was Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address. As Air America Radio pointed out, “it is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog.”
That’s not all that uncommon, really. But what is uncommon is when the people that were having the online romance decided to meet in person, only to find out they were already husband and wife.
Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly re-united Bakr Melhem and his wife Sanaa in an Internet chat room, the official Petra news agency said.
Bakr, who passed himself off as Adnan, fell head over heels for Sanaa, who signed off as Jamila (beautiful) and described herself as a cultured, unmarried woman — a devout Muslim whose hobby was reading, Petra said.
Whoops. As you can imagine, it just get uglier from there.
I’ve been busy!
I managed to get through my RSS feeds, and I have a pile of links sitting here waiting to be posted, but I’ll be damned if I’ve gotten time to do anything online the last few days.
And as soon as I can get a couple other projects off my back, life will much better. I’ve been trying to figure out some Python permissions issues on one project, and I don’t know a damn thing about Python, and I’ve been trying to just finish this other project for a site’s redesign, but haven’t had time to finish up the final pieces of it.
I personally haven’t used Bloglines, but have heard from a lot of people who do and like it. I wonder how this news will affect them?
He was only 4-years-old, and he managed to drive to the video store.
Even though he was unable to reach the accelerator, the boy managed to put the car in gear and the idling engine provided enough power to take him slowly to the store, a quarter-mile from his home, about 1:30 a.m. Friday, Police Chief Doug Heugel said. Finding the store closed, the youngster began a slow trip home.
Weaving and with its headlights off, the car got the attention of police Sgt. Jay Osga, who initially thought he was following a driverless car that had taken off after being left running at a gas pump.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
I was talking to my cousin who is living in Japan, teaching over there. He told me that Japanese folks have a thing with mayonnaise, and they will put it in anything. Case in point:
Mmm….Boy does that sound appetizing. Now excuse me while I go yack.
Anytime anybody asks me how our domain name system works, I’m just going to send them to this easy to follow slide show.
You can view them here. And be sure to read why GoDaddy’s ad never ran in the second half, like it was supposed to, on the CEO’s blog. Be sure to watch the full two-minute version of the ad here. GoDaddy already had trouble getting their ad to air, as previous versions were rejected. I think it was a good ad, I just have no idea how much it’s going to help GoDaddy’s business (I personal use GoDaddy’s Domain and SSL certificate services, and they work dandy).
Other than I laughed really hard, but yet, was very disturbed at the same time. See for yourself (and it’s a Flash video that resizes your browser window — resize your window a bit smaller to make it less pixilated). Thanks Dan for the link.
Update on 2/17: The story has been picked up by national media, and a story and video link is here. Here’s another link and story as well.