Since everybody else is linking to this, I might as well: 101 ways to save the Internet.
Just Stay Home
We’ve got another foot of snow on the ground this morning (and I’d have pictures if my USB Cable for my company’s digital camera was anywhere to be found). The roads here are awful. ODOT is telling everybody to stay home. They’re considering closing one of the mountain passes (considering it looks like this, I don’t blame them). It’s a mess all over Oregon.
The Portland area is getting beat up, too, and I know this is the first time in a long time I’ve seen this much snow on I-5. Granted, it’s not nearly as much snow as we have here on the other side of the mountains, but we’re a bit more prepared over here for it (or at least we pretend we are).
The work web cam shows how much snow is in Sunriver, and you can see the snow on the local roads so you can see that it’s just a mess out there (and those roads aren’t in too bad of shape because they’re major roads and are plowed more).
Folks: stay home. Please. It’s New Years. Watch some football.
Damn AOL
OK, on my Dada/Mojo powered nightly-mailings, I have about 10 people that are using AOL or Netscape.net (out of the 50 or so on my mailing list). Well, apparently AOL thinks I send those people too many e-mails and am spamming (despite the fact that I have another Dada install that send a mailing to about 150 AOLers, and it’s not banned). Note that if I were still using Bloglet, I would’ve never got these bounces back to see what was going on, but here are the bounces I got back:
SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
host mailin-03.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.25]: 554-(RLY:B1) The information presently available to AOL indicates this
554-server is generating high volumes of member complaints from AOL’s
554-member base. Based on AOL’s Unsolicited Bulk E-mail policy at
554-http://www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html AOL may not accept further
554-e-mail transactions from this server or domain. For more information,
554 please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
I’m sending two messages per second, using the SMTP settings in Dada, and that’s hardly bulldozing the server. And my domain/IP isn’t blacklisted so why on earth is this happening?
Regardless, my Web host’s abuse department is looking into it. Does anybody out there have an AOL account (that they want to admit to ;-)) that I can email from this domain to see if it gets bounced?
So if you’re on my mailing list, and are using AOL or Netscape.net (two very poor choices, in my opinion), you’re probably not going to get it. Understand, folks, that if you get your Internet access from those folks, you don’t have to use them for e-mail. Yahoo! Mail has always been pretty good to me as an extra account, but there are dozens that are better than AOL, that’s for sure.
Best Wishes for 2004
May 2004 be good to you and to us all. May your kids be released on their own recognizances and their arrest records sealed. May the funny noise in the your old car turn out to be only the skin of your lost cat, trapped in the fanbelt.
May the mean old lady from the IRS find your house, but be struck by lightning on the front walk. May your doctor smile when he says “I have some rather urgent news for you.”
May the guy who sells lottery tickets look up at your approach and shout “gather round people, here he comes!” or “she comes!”
May your wife’s boyfriend turn blue and burst into flame from a viagra overdose. Or may your husband’s girlfriend’s hair fall out, poisoned by silicone leaks.
May the relative who dies and leaves you a fortune be a stupid bastard you never really liked.
May the judge look up and say “guilty? of course you couldn’t be guilty–not a sweetheart like you.”
May friends with benighted politics write you deathbed letters, confessing they now realize that you were right all their lives, and they were miserably wrong.
May you find great love, and get away with it. May your enemies develop incurable rashes. May you leave this world a better place for your having been here, or at least get an unfair share of the credit.
Thanks to Barney for the link. Happy New Year everybody — I’m going to bed before Dick Clark pops on the tube. I’ll probably celebrate the new year (an hour from now) in bed. G’night!
Ducks lose a heart breaker
Minnesota 31, Oregon: 30. The game was won with a late field goal that barely made it through the uprights. Clemens had an incredible game with 362 yards, 31 for 43, 3 TDs, and the only interception he threw was in the last 10 seconds of the game.
Oh well…looking forward to next year (as always).
Airline passenger arrested by Redmond police
But despite his arrest, he seems to be pretty jolly about the whole thing:
I can only hope that if I ever get arrested, I’m enjoying things as much as he is.
What is the world coming to?
All this girl wants is a career in the porn industry, and the Lincoln, Nebraska, police just won’t let her have it. Granted, she’s posing nude in public places in Lincoln (keep and eye out for her, Gregg), which is why she’s getting in trouble. Needless to say, her Web site (not even remotely safe for work) is getting a pile of traffic because of all the media attention she’s getting. If she was having trouble getting exposure before, she’s undoubtedly getting it now.
Joan Crawford’s Long Lost Daughter Found
(It had been a a while since we’ve had a Michael Jackson post. Thanks Yoleen)
Be Safe Tonight
If you’re going out to party tonight, or plan on drinking at all, remember to be safe, and that 7-11 is giving out free coffee tonight. Don’t be stupid and drink and drive — please.
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Why I need a digital camera
So I could’ve taken pictures of our snow like Jon’s. I took a few winter pictures two years ago (pardon the poor scanning) but would really like to get some more taken. With the back pain laying me up, I haven’t taken nearly as many photos as I’ve liked.
What I really need is a negative scanner so I can get decent scans of my negatives (as I’ve got some great blank and whites in binders in my office). But that’s wishful thinking, that’s for sure, as those little buggers are expensive. And I need a dark room to develop my own film.
And I need to win the lottery 😉