Category: Internet

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Blogging Computers Internet

WordPress Is Back To Normal Now

This blog – and all other WordPress blogs – should look normal now. The annoying problem has been corrected.

If you didn’t experience a problem today then you don’t use Internet Explorer 6 (like most people do to surf the web). You probably use Internet Explorer 7, or Firefox, or some other obscure web browser.

I briefly considered upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 tonight, but then I quickly realized how much I dislike it. (We use it at work.) I’m also sticking with Windows XP indefinitely. It’s the 2ND best operating system that was ever created – 2ND of course to the legendary Windows 98. Good Times !

Before I call it a night I want to remind everyone about the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ tomorrow night here on this blog. Be sure to update your blogs in the morning with some good stuff because I’ll be pinging my favourites again.

Have a great evening everyone !

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Driving Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

It’s the 3RD edition of the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’, and this one is quite simple and straight-forward.

You can not unlock your car door from afar using your spare remote and a cell phone that’s aimed at your car. This is an E-Mail hoax that has been circulated and re-circulated all around the world in a vicious cycle for nearly the past 4 years. It is technologically impossible. It was in 2004. It still is in 2008.

Read all about this Internet hoax.

Don’t be duped by forwarded E-Mails that you receive within your Inbox. If it doesn’t sound right then it probably isn’t true.

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Hoaxes Internet People

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

Last Thursday night we realized that our cell phones would not be instantly inundated with calls from telemarketers if we did not submit our number to the National Do Not Call Registry before a certain deadline. That was (and still is) an Internet hoax.

This Thursday night it’s all about an Amber Alert for a missing 15-year-old boy by the name of Evan Trembley. You are urged to forward an E-Mail (and accompanying picture of Evan) to everyone that you know so that someone – anyone could find him and return him to his Mom.

The fact of the matter is that Evan is a real person, and he is also fine and well. It was actually he himself who started this Internet hoax last Summer (2007) in an effort to become famous online to impress his friends. It worked. He is now Internationally-known. Just don’t go looking for him – unless you live in his neighbourhood.

Read all about this Internet hoax at About.com: Urban Legends.

DON’T believe everything that you read within your E-Mail Inbox. If it doesn’t sound right then it probably isn’t true. If you receive an E-Mail that states that you should forward it on to everyone that you know then that should be the tip-off right there that you are dealing with an Internet hoax. Kill the hoax. Hit the DELETE key !

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Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

I’m starting a new weekly feature here on ‘The Major’s Life Blog’. In the grande tradition of the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’, the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’, and the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ I now present to you the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’.

It’s where I take a current (and recurring) internet hoax / urban legend / chain letter that keeps appearing within our E-MAIL inboxes, and expose it for what it’s worth. They are forwarded to us quite innocently enough by our friends and relatives, but they are simply not true.

Here’s this week’s edition:

A local South Florida radio station announced earlier this week on their popular morning show that if you don’t hurry up and register your cell phone number with the ‘National Do Not Call Registry‘ by Midnight on the 31ST of January then telemarketers all over the world would have free reign to call you and send you text messages (at your expense) to your cell phone.

THIS IS AN INTERNET HOAX !

This hoax has been circulating for the past 3½-years now, and it keeps popping up over and over again as something brand new that’s getting ready to happen. Not true.

Read all about it.