I’ve been playing this long enough, it’s time somebody else got addicted!
http://weboggle.shackworks.com
I usually play the 4×4 version.
Don’t be disappointed if you don’t score very highly. I’m sure some of the people cheat, and many of the others have been playing for a long time. I’m usually happy to be in the top 10%, and that’s not easy.
Be sure you have updated to the latest version of Firefox (1.5.0.5). If you are set to automatically receive updates, it probably already happened.
There are some potentially dangerous loopholes in the previous version that this one fixes.
If you use it (and I recommend that you do) Thunderbird email client also needs to be updated to the same version: 1.5.0.5
As we were getting ready to go to Peru next week, I realized that our camcorder had died.
I’ve got one closet shelf full of Hi-8 tapes, and another shelf full of MiniDV tapes. The only way I can view either of them is to play them through their respective camcorders, each of which is broken.
So I just bought a MiniDVD camcorder. It records on 3″ DVD disks. After recording you can play then in a regular DVD player, or in a computer DVD ROM. Random access, on-screen menu; all the advantages of DVD over tape.
It’s the Sony DCR-DVD403. It is last year’s model that I got for an excellent price on clearance. They say that the changes in this year’s model are mostly cosmetic.
It just seems like I’ll use it more when it is so convenient, and hopefully I’ll still be able to play DVDs long after this camera has bitten the dust and joined it’s older brothers in the dustbin.
Here’s a story with photos about a laptop that burst into flames. Could be a problem if it were on your lap, especially if you were on a plane.
See here for an interesting, interactive map of the world showing which points are exactly opposite each other.
Could you get to China by digging a hole straight through the earth from the USA?
Strap on wings to use by the military to deposit soldiers well behind enemy lines.
They can glide for miles, then open a parachute at the last minute to drop safely to the ground.
Here’s an interesting set of puzzles. They come with no instructions; you have to figure out what to do, and how to do it. It’s a little like playing “Myst”. Experiment!
The set of puzzles is called “ClickDragType”. There’s a clue right there.
Find it here. Click on the link “Play This Game”.
Note that it didn’t work correctly on my Firefox. The intro played, but the games never loaded. You may have to use (choke!) IE to run it.
I mentioned a few days ago about the spam fighting company “Blue Security”, with their program “Blue Frog”, and how they were in a war with spammers.
Don just pointed out to me that it looks like the spammers won. BlueSecurity has given up and gone out of the spam fighting business. They said they are concerned that if they kept up the fight they would bring more problems for their clients.
It’s a shame, but it looks like the spammers own the internet.
If you installed a Blue Frog, immediately remove it from your computer. If the spammers get control of the server, they can use the Frog to control your computer. See more here.
There’s an interesting major Internet battle going on right now.
There’s a company called Blue Security. (I won’t provide a link because they are down.) People can download their software (the Blue Frog) which sends emails to spammers whenever they receive a spam message. This overloads the spammers server, slowing them down or halting them.
Several major spammers have cried “Uncle” and agreed to remove everybody who uses Blue Frog from their email list, but one evil entity has instead starting fighting back. He somehow figured out how to send multiple messages to many of the people who use Blue Frog, telling them that they were going to keep receiving these until they turned off the Frog. He also has brought the Blue Security web site down with a “DDOS” (Distributed Denial of Service) attack; basically forcing many diverse computers to overload the Blue Security site. Basically, what he is saying is “You must accept my spam. You cannot refuse it. If you try to refuse it, I will send you even more.”
Blue Security has been down for a couple of days now. This guy is pretty sophisticated.
You can read more about this here and here.
Somehow, we have to take back the internet from the spammers and scammers. Perhaps this will be a wake-up call to do some long-needed modifications to email to make it more traceable and controllable.
Version 1.5.0.3 has been released, less than 2 weeks after 1.5.0.2. Nothing major, just a security fix (which I guess is really pretty major).
If you have automatic updates turned on, it will happen automatically, though you will have to restart Firefox to finalize the update.
If you don’t have automatic updates turned on, you can get it by selecting “Help”, “Check for Updates”.
Note that the update doesn’t completely replace your existing Firefox implementation; it just updates a few necessary files, so it’s fast and easy.
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