Life, Out of Boredom
Bored, Spams & Penis Enlargement
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Ok, I admit. I’m bored. Lonely maybe? No - it’s just that I am bored and a mix of worried. However, I eventually dissed my stupid neck warmer to my little cat, ginger. I mean it’s worthless. At first it looks awesome on him, second it’s making him walk like a snake, so he doesn’t seem to like it. All he can do is to meow, looking at me as if “you idiot take this off of me”. Bastard, stop begging.
Since I’m bored, I opened my inbox today and found a pouring 73 spams out of 4 legit emails. How sick is that? I don’t know. Would you believe I read every single one of them, out of boredom? I’m aware of the fact that maybe it contains a virus but ok, I’m using a hotmail dot com, it’s free but how difficult it is to stop them from coming in? While hotmail has these so-called spam blocker features, it never worked. It’s really a pain in the ass as it multiply like little gremlins day by day by day. Can I email them back to the spammers? What a bunch of embecile thieves.
But what makes me really really mad is that, one of these stupid spammer repeatedly sends information about Penis Enlargment http://www.naturalherbals.biz/doctorsherbalgroup/index.php (if you are a curious investigator, click the link. I know you want to). For a minute, I was like, does this person knows my size? Does my Johnny needs enhancement? Well it says, I can have a realistic gains in just a few weeks, then months, if I want them really HUGE.
After your first month, you will have increased your length and thickness with actual visible improvement by at least 1/2 to 1 full inch in length and girth, much stronger steel-like erections that possess incredible control over pre-mature ejaculation, and the pride, excitement and satisfaction to know that this is only your first month!
Fooking what? Do I want my penis to be hard all the time? No Thank You. What’s the point? I’m happy with my size and no, I’m not telling. So do size really matters? Wait a minute… let me click that link again.
My boredom goes on.
So just because I’m bored and nothing else to do - below is literally much explain about my life.
1. Ocean or Lake?
2. Snow or Rain?
3. Black or White?
4. Pepper or Salt?
5. Cold or Hot?
6. Long hair or Short hair?
7. CD’s or Tapes?
8. Pants or Shorts?
9. Love or Hate?
10. Computer or TeeVee?
Blah. I’m such a fooking kiddo. If you want to keep yourself a little busy, for at least a couple of minutes, try this.
Mr Curiosity
by: Jason Mraz
Hi K! Well for me size doesnt matter as long as u know how you use it.
Hi C, right dude. Rest assured that the size of your penis has no relation to sexual pleasure or performance. Remember, that old saying, “it’s not how long your pencil is, it’s how you write your name. Or this, “it’s not the wand it’s the magician”.
i hate spam. that kind of mail spam. i got that enlargement thing too and i’m not even male! DUH.
but caramelized spam with sunny side up egg… yum
Hi D, I prolly have posted my emails anywhere in the web when I was just starting my webpage many years ago to many forums, guestbooks (remember those website generations?), newsgroups and so on. I was so naive about spam robots who crawl the web looking for emails - and I’m sure that’s how I got them. I think nowadays, blogs are usually moderated when it comes to leaving comments and mine here are safe. So turn on your word verification thingie.
hehe..nice one! lemme check the link, hubby might juz be interested? does size matter? hmmm…ewan, i’m still a virgin!
you changed your URL, aima edit my link asap then.
how are you?
Hi Sachie, hahaha let me know about the results in a month. But really, you and your sex partner can experiment a lot of things, and in reality sexual pleasure is related to: a person’s state of mind; to respecting their partner’s needs; and their own needs that a change in penis size can not. Thanks for updating my linkie.
Spams are irritating man. But to think it killed your boredom… no? Yes? oh blah.
Penis size… hmmm… size.. hmm.. let me keep thinking.
A, I do eat spams, along with the eggs & beans hahaha. Do you know that sizes matters for most of the women these days because they always wear a wrong-size of bra?
Wait a minute….
am fighting the bloody spams daily
anyway hmm size
some men may have the right ones
but if they know whats passion
what s the heck then
S, pinoy kahit daw hindi gaano kalaki, maTITIgas pa rin lagi.
K, it is due to the spambots finding your address. Like you, I put my email around the web, including on my own site, and in those early internet “phone books”. Big mistake, and I have been fighting spam since.
Hi Jack, I can’t think of anything to block them, it continues day after day after day. The best thing I could do is just to delete them without opening the email. Most of my spams comes from the US - it’s worst than the football season.
Since spam will always be an issue on internet, I’m glad I had Akismet on this blog, it’s a comment spam defense for wordpress and so far in 2 months, it caught at least 1.
Thanks for the visit, Jack.
On email, I set up a bunch of filters to block the spams, and they are reasonably effective, though I still spend a few minutes each morning deleting the last eight hours’ worth. Unfortunately, they will still keep coming till the address no longer exists.
You are right: they are generally American. I understand from one spam-analysing outfit that Americans are responsible for 90 per cent of the spams we get, although they are routed through servers in countries where anti-spam laws are not as strong. Lately, one friend tells me that organized criminals around the world are involved in spam.
I would steer clear away from McAfee SpamKiller—way more trouble than it’s worth. But there might be a few programs out there for POP mail accounts; not so sure about webmail systems like Hotmail.
Oh thank you for this info Jack. Firefox browser helps in minimizing the popups, I would say it’s a pop-up free browser compared on IE cuz that’s definatelty one of the things I hate about surfing.
I’ll try on the filtering system. Thanks again.
Hi K, you’re welcome! The Google Toolbar for IE does a fairly good job preventing pop-ups, though the odd one still appears—and of course, trojan makers make use of the IE code to feed their awful little programs through.
As to filtering, begin just adding the words or phrases the spammers use. You’ll also notice that they write in a certain way and use certain code. I don’t want to post them here otherwise they will learn how to circumvent them! But just examine, say, 12 or 20 of the messages and you will see commonalities. As long as you have a Trash folder that you can recover from, in case your filters are over-exuberant, then you should be fine.
Oh, K, I also use the Maxthon browser, which does a pretty good job of preventing pop-ups. It’s like IE but it has tabs—kind of the best of both worlds.
I’ve been using Maxthon in disguise for IE, but I deleted them for the same reason that I now enjoy using Firefox. Did you know that a Firefox 2 Beta (Bon Echoe Alpha) is now on release? There’s an improve bookmark functionality. Apparently, some of the Extensions for this are not available to use. It has a very clean system installed but not sure when is the final release.
As for the spams, just today, I still got a hundreds of them after trying to enable the filter system. I’m a bit of worried it might affect my legit emails from coming in. Just a thought. Thanks again Jack.
K, does your filter system allow you to feed in your own keywords? I usually feed in the swear words, and variations of some of the more common words for the goods they promote. I also include stuff like ‘Lagos’ to catch the 419s. Won’t reveal too much more but you get the drift.
Firefox doesn’t work for me. I am quite fussy when it comes to typography and Mozilla has not been able to make one that is compatible with Adobe Type Manager on Windows (see my post here). It’s a pity, as all the Netscapes were fine up till 4·7. But a program that can’t even display quote marks in the correct font is a bit worrying. (I even tried Firefox with ATM switched off, and the same problem occurs.)
Hi Jack, well so far in 1 week, the spams get filterized - I don’t know why but it dramatically dropped down - I have tracked down around 10 spams so at least it’s doing ok. I had the Maxthon up and running again. Firefox has a weird thing with flash, it doesn’t seem to work at all but hey, thanks for the infos, greatly appreciated.
Hi K: I wonder if it’s because your filter formulas are working and they are getting rid of the spams. I fed in some more for a few foreign-language spams and they are working pretty well.
Sorry to hear about the Firefox–Flash glitch. My Maxthon has been going pretty well though Flash did crash it yesterday on a friend’s site and I lost a blog post I had literally just finished and hadn’t saved.
“….I lost a blog post I had literally just finished and hadn’t saved.”
So sorry to hear that! I visited your blog. Man, you’re such a talented and very informative blogger. Thanks.
PS. Congrats on your coComments. Looks like your site is very popular indeed.
Wow, thank you, K! I am still relatively new to all of this. I began blogging in 2003 but in a really limited way (e.g. one post every quarter). Then I caught the bug in 2005! When coComment came about, I thought it was such a fantastic tool as I was previously Googling to track my old conversations.
coComment is like your comment archives, it won’t miss any single comment you make and trackback your conversation who make comments to your entries, like this one. I have seen quite a number of people using it on a daily basis, including us - it’s becomes another source of promoting our blogs. Thank you!
I am glad I can help in some small way. I have been using coCo as a sort of blog bookmarking service as well—it’s been quite handy for leisure. I see you are up in the top users as well.
Hahah Jack, I know I know - I am not competing on the total number of comments in TOP COMMENTERS” but it looks I’m already addicted to it.
I am addicted! I never used to blog much, and since December I got hooked big time. I don’t really coComment for its own sake though when I was getting to 200 comments, I did hunt out blogs to comment on! How sick am I?!
You did? YOU’re SICK HAHAHAH! I think I basically use coCo to reply to comments in my entry. I think I’ve learnt about this service thru Atari Boy who’s been on TOP before you and I thought it’s fun. You see this happens to be my 3rd blog, been blogging since 2003. I used to have more than a hundred of comments from my own domain till it got suspended. I feel like a newbie on this new wordpress blog. I did picked-up pretty quickly tho for 3 months now I guess.
And “you had me” on my Spam post.
I find it a lot of fun, too. Before coComment came along, I would search for my name plus the word blog every now and then. I’ve seen Atari Boy’s name there, along with the Atari logo—very nostalgic!
What happened with your suspension? Judging only by this blog, you seem to be a really good and conscientious blogger, so I would say that any suspension sounds unfair.
I’m not racing Ryan to be the top coCommenter, I have to say. I am just writing for fun, otherwise my blog posts lack sparkle.
I didn’t want to resume the service. I was charged too much of bandwidth usage i didn’t know about. They said it was the radioblog, I have huge mp3 files stored in my database - they didn’t tell me it being charged on the monthly basis. I had no IDEA, was totally ignorant about the service. Anyways, I lost all my posts there, used the domain for a year, I didnt have the back up of the posts and it’s just probably sitting there somewhere. I was explaining it to my host but they still want me to pay at least HK $3K. I mean fook that’s a lot of money to pay only for a BLOG? Eventually I gave up and wanted to end it there. They haven’t replied to me since then so consider that a termination. I had this wordpress.com for a long time now before my domain, just that I had a little impression of its service, now I think I’m ok with a FREE service account. It doesn’t change my blogging routines anyways - I still write, yeah writing for myself hahaha.
Amazing how anti-customer some hosts get. And $3,000 to get your own data back seems criminal. Free is good! I decided to host my own because Blogger wiped a lot of blogs last year, unilaterally blaming people for spamming. Some had to complain for some time before their blogs were reinstated.
These spammers stole my bandwidths. But I just don’t see why I had to pay that much for a blog? I don’t sell stuff on my domain, the monthly was around HK$150, tis the reason why I gave it a go - it was fun but learnt my lesson.
I’m contented now of this free service besides it’s still a wordpress, theres nothing to worry about other obligations.
I had some hackers steal a lot of bandwidth and I believe it cost me thousands of dollars of damage—something like $5k (and that’s US dollars). The thing is you can’t really sue them without spending many times that amount. I have to wonder why we are targeted though: you and I are just regular folks (well, as far as I know!). We’re not the US Department of Defense and we’re not Microsoft. Some of those hackers and spammers deserve pretty harsh punishments.
And guess what, I have earned 12 spams lately because of this POST. I think I made a link of that Penis Enlargement site and the same spam comments keeps coming in.
Ok, I’m deleting those links above.
Hi K: did the spams go into your email or was it comment spam?
If you got spams in your email, it may be because of a mailto link to your address and the fact your blog is becoming popular. It is a double-edged sword: the more you get linked, the more well visited your blog becomes—but also, the more paths through which spambots will find you.
If it was comment spam, I wonder—it could be what you suspect but it may be a coincidence that the spambots came here because of the words penis enlargement.
The spams on email was similar to this comment spams and it’s exactly the same PENIS ENLARGEMENT business. I think its the post “pinging” I don’t know. I got some “search” about sex, penis, ass and alll those bodyparts hahaha I bet twas simply because of the use of words I write here and there. Hey now I do not need to worry with this on my blog - it’s free and unintentionally it helps your hits sum up right?
Yes, exactly! I have a feeling, however, that the email spams were coincidental and it’s a result of the rising popularity of your blog. The searches are another matter—just the regular perverts on the ’net, but I don’t they are the ones spamming you.
In my email they are mostly about promoting technologies, health and cellphones. Believe it or not, its been about a week now that my inbox has received zero spam, although, it will not go away completely but at least the filtering went ok.
Glad to hear the spams actually disappeared for that long. Do you also get emails saying you won a lottery (usually from Nigerian con-men)? A client of mine was sent a phishing email today but fortunately she did not fall for it.
Not yet, hahaha I hope not. What if say, you got one of those and clickeed the link would the spam stop from coming in? I don’t know but it seems it was all just bunch of “flyers”.
I would recommend not clicking anything. Clicking could confirm to a spammer that your address is valid and encourage more spam.
How about emailing them back and say, “YOU FOOLS STOP POLLUTING MY INBOX”? hahaha I’m kidding and I’m sure won’t be doing that. Thanks for the tips.
I have to confess that I have done it! As in username: spam hater; password: do you think I’m gullible? But I think these are all machine-run.
Oh you did? How silly! I read about a local news in the Philippines about these spam emails. Im not sure it was but it sounded like that. A girl replied to one of them saying that she won some internet game or something worth a hundred dollars. She then sent the money, then days later, she got another email that the money couldnt be processed unless she pay another handling charges, etc. Sadly, the girl was naive, the email was bogus and now she doesn’t know how to get her money back even if she did report them to the government. Somehow I thought purchasing online is not safe at all.
I reckon one should not respond to email offers like that, and the gambling scams (about winning a game) are fairly common. They essentially try to trick you by continuing to give excuses about processing funds. I don’t think the girl will ever get her money back as it has gone offshore, and foreign dealings are nearly impossible for law enforcement agencies to follow up.
But statistically, online purchasing is safer than going to a store. The important thing is for one to go to the online shop like Amazon, and not respond to emailed offers, which can be faked.
Is it really safe to shop online? I still have qualms - not sure how safe it is but oh well…
Hi K: yes, I’ve shopped online for many years and have never been ripped off.
That’s good to know, I’ve been thinking of purchasing books in Amazon. But wait, let me check my credit card. You know they are the little evil plastic that goes “HELLO SWIPE” in your wallet?
I like Amazon—got many a good gift through it! But the shipping is horrendous. It’ll be better to Hong Kong, but to New Zealand, it is pricey.
Everything around here is pricey too. Even McDonalds can be very expensive compare to other Asian countries and they all taste the same. Like IKEA, you thought its cheap to purchase a big couch but they will always ask you to pay the hidden charges such as delivery service & installation. The way you look at it, you’re paying almost 30% more than you actually pay for the item. I don’t know if you purchase products from Amazon, they’ll charge you extra for shipping.
Yes, Amazon will charge—and the rate has been going up. I used to save up a few things and order them in one go, to save some money, but that doesn’t seem to work that well any more.
Financially, I suck. I can’t even keep a penny overnight unless I wanted to really put my plastic off my wallet. I’m probably not wiser enough on my spending. I used to have my Adsense in my domain account and I don’t know if you can actually earn something from that.
Maybe look at other ad networks like Burst! Media or Valueclick, or some affiliate programmes to generate some money? I am seriously contemplating it myself. For instance, I don’t know if you make anything from your Tower Records’ links but if not, you could look at the Amazon programme and earn a few per cent if anyone buys through here.
Apparently, I can’t put adsense or javascripts on wp.com. They won’t allow it. The Tower Records links are for my music choices nothing else. Free weblog has limited resources to add extras. Tough for me, but that’s OK, I still enjoy the free service without other obligations, although it sucks when the server goes “poop” all the time for an upgrade. I’ll live, somehow.
Amazon code might be Javascript-free—or at least a variant of it is. There are non-Java variants of the Burst! code, I think. Blogger is fairly flexible so I have been able to add odds and ends into my template.
I tried, can’t find where the HTML codes there. I like wordpress because it’s easy to navigate, organized and the functionality is dead simple to use. While blogger, you can access to edit your template, that’s why many people uses it. These free services may experience down-time once in a while but I can manage. Patience is always a virtue.
Did you sign up to the Amazon Associates’ programme, K? I wasn’t sure if you were referring to the HTML codes there. True: the Blogger templates are highly editable, which is probably why I might have to stick with it as it’s not a bad free service. Just that it is not a great free service.
It also reminds me of my RadioBlog. The reason why I signed up having my domain was because of the “music” addiction in the internet. I’m an ego-tripper. I download music and use radioblog for my own satisfaction. Little did I know, somewhere along the way, my host has been charging me thousand of dollars for that service. It’s not free and not easy to set up, so I made a wrong decision. So now, free service, good or bad, I’ll continue using this. I hope sooner or later, wordpress would allow user to enable javascripts and music codes. Come what may.
I have downloaded music as in listening to online radio, and a few TV themes on some web sites. Is this how you get songs and put them on to MP3 players and iPods?
I’m using Limewire for my downloads (ssshh it’s not a free account but it’s considered stealing), for my own pleasure and transfer them to my iPod. But I like free online mp3 players and radio streams, I listen to music, old and new then download it.
I have always been wary of these downloadable music programs. Is Limewire spyware (as in, can other people enter your computer through it)? I think I’m too old to change my ways!
I think it’s not a spyware free. I’m not sure if it has or had. P2P file-sharing including movies, pictures, etc. but won’t literally get into your computer. You may or may not enable the file share on but I doubt if they will let you download something.
I do have a firewall, so I imagine I can’t use these programs anyway. But the thought of others being able to access my hard drive is a big turn-off.
I just never overdo it. It’s easy to find an old songs rather than staying all night looking for the new ones. I don’t think they can steal your files when you access to this “sharing” program unless you’re sharing them. All this time I thought anti-virus programs are the ones giving you the virus anyways so you keep updating these kind of programs, register to them, buy the latest and you end up a bulk of programs in your computer. Generally speaking, anti-virus is annoying. For as long as we are online, we can never git rid of these problems, right?
I don’t think too negatively of the antivirus brigade, but I do know from my firewall that there are a lot of people attempting entry to my computer constantly, every day. These might be the greater culprits, probably trying to plant trojans.
Jack, I’m not literate with the trojans and firewalls. A friend of mine helped me with the anti-virus NOD32. It’s very reliable and it updates every once in an hour. So I think my PC is safe. However, I’m still annoyed that I can’t watch online music whenever I uses my Firefox. I don’t know what to do with it.
I don’t know NOD32 too well. I use McAfee, and have done since 1989; I think what is most important is which program is reliable and gives you peace of mind. Does NOD32 prevent you from watching online programs on your Firefox?
No. I have cleared the cached, upload Active X I think, I don’t know it won’t allow me to watch anything except if it runs with the WMP. There must be something missing down there. I don’t know. Sometimes I switch on IE (the new beta version) and able to see videos.
I know it can be annoying switching browsers. For about two months, LinkedIn (a business networking tool) would not work with my IE, a total mystery. It’s all right now. But I had to change browsers just to visit one web site! I still believe it to be a glitch on LinkedIn’s end, since they did use to feed different versions of the site to different people (Google does the same), though since it now works, I haven’t pushed the issue.
How is the new IE? I am pretty happy with Maxthon for the time being.
Trinity invited me to join the Messenger Beta 8.0. The version is good but looks the same to me. While the IE beta, it’s the only browser (aside from Maxthon) that works with media & other video related sites. Looks organized but tho I still prefer using Firefox for browsing for the meantime until I get used to the IE version.
I might wait to get IE after it goes out of beta—not hugely desiring to switch. I might pay for the next Maxthon update and donate, as I use it way too much compared to other blogs.
I mean, I use it way too much compared to other browsers!
Better yet, don’t switch any browser. I would normally browse Firefox because it’s easier and coCo got some problem with Maxthon. I wonder why.
I have told coCo that the Maxthon bug is easily fixed but they haven’t acted on it yet. All you need to do is save the coComment bookmarklet in IE, then open Maxthon (which saves the same favourites), move it to the right sub-menu so you can see the coCo button on the browser’s toolbars, and that is it. But just importing the coCo bookmarklet straight into Maxthon will not work, so that is perhaps what the developers are trying to put right.
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