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Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

Here’s what’s happenin’ at some of my favourite blogs in the blogosphere:

Last weekend Travis spent some time at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.

In his ‘Monday Morning Shenanigans’ Phil describes how frantically busy he is for 100 minutes from 4:00 AM to 5:40 AM on a typical work day morning.

Jesse’s got still more ‘Facts You Didn’t Know’ (about him).

Bill includes Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, John Entwistle of The Who, and LL Phil J of the Life Pointe Church ‘Praise & Worship’ Band as 3 of his TOP 5 favourite bass players in the entire world !

Casey posted his first blog entry in 3½-months in which he explains what went horribly wrong at the RED concert last Thursday night.  

Ritz got a Dell dude !

Kelly’s got a funny story regarding Kourtney and an apple !

Luci shares some pictures of a fun day at her home last weekend. (As is usually the case – water is involved.)

THANK YOU BLOGGERS for another entertaining week !  Keep on doin’ your thang !

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Computers Hoaxes Internet

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

It’s by far the most-read weekly feature here on this blog. It’s what everyone talks about on Friday. It’s the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame. It’s ON !

This week’s outrageous hoax is brought to you by the land of make-believe:

Subject: ****** VIRUS WARNING ******

Please read the attached warning issued today.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:

You should be alert during the next days:

Do not open any message with an attached filed called “Invitation” regardless of who sent it.

It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which “burns” the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a mail called “invitation”, though sent by a friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.

This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.

This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.

This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.

SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.

There is not a single speck of logic or truth in this widely circulated E-Mail (or its numerous variants through the years). Someone with extremely limited computer and Internet technical knowledge obviously created this E-Mail way back in the day (late-1990s), and nearly a decade later it is still circulating all throughout cyberspace.

Would you believe that I actually received this E-Mail this past week at work from a coworker who actually thought that it was legitimate ?  She sent it to dozens and dozens of people too, but I’m not angry about it at all. She unknowingly provides me with lots of material for this weekly feature. (If she only read this blog …) 

Read more about it.

Read even more about it.

Read still more about it.

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Blogging Computers Hoaxes Internet Television

Blatant Promotion

Do you smell that ?  It’s the smell of your hard drive burning !  The most destructive virus ever created by mankind has infected your system, and it’s literally burning a physical hole right through the middle of your hard drive.

Read all about it on a SHOCKING ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 PM Eastern / 4 PM Central / 11 AM Hawaiian. It’s what everyone will be talking about on Friday morning over at Denny’s in Florida City (where all of the food is).

Don’t forget about the original ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’ featuring the greatest blog entries of this past week from the greatest bloggers that are near and dear to me. That includes this crazy cat who reminds me of me because when I read his blog it looks just like my blog !  Phil – One Sunday we should really mix it all up by having me guest-write your ‘Talk Soup’ on your blog in your style, and having you guest-write my ‘Tossed Salad’ on my blog in my style. 🙄

OK enough of all of that lunacy. THANK YOU BLOGGERS for blogging on here with me. Even if you don’t have your own blog and you’re just here to read what I have to write then that still makes you a blogger. If you read blogs then you blog. It’s that simple.

So until we blog again – REMEMBER THIS from 40 years ago !

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Philosophy

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

OK honorary club members – Here’s this week’s message straight from my fortune cookie to my blog:

‘You are known for being quick in action and decisions.’

YES – That’s me. It seems that the longer I go in trying to make a decision the less desirable the outcome is. It’s the quicker decisions and the actions that go along with them that generally seem to work out the best.