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Monthly Archives: August 2006
Known Domain-Squatter / Forced Download Supplier
Drive-By-Downloads were a phrased coined during the insane times of getting Gator downloaded to your PC everytime you clicked nearly anywhere foreign. Well, at least those days are over, or so I thought. Tonight, I was on a new site, trying out their tools and features, and got to a wrong link, i think they had a typo, so I corrected it to the logical domain (businessblogs.com) and hit enter.
Wow! Next thing you know I’m on a “ibuytraffic.net” parking page which is trying to have me save some .DAT file and asking to protect me from spyware at the same time. Nice try guys. Got it all down. In the images here for all to see. So, who runs this lucrative business? Mr. Javon Lockley and/or David Harrison of Muskegon, Michigan.
Hurricane Ernesto Heads towards South Florida
Ernesto is coming to dinner – well, maybe. Most recent National Hurricane Center updates say that Hurricane Ernesto has top winds of 75 mph at 8 a.m. ET, with higher gusts. This is the first tropical storm of the year … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, News, Space/Astrology
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BellSouth/AT&T Rape Consumers with USF
The Universal Service Fund (“USF”). Hmm, what’s that? Well, it’s been a fiesty little charge that’s on my cellular and telephone bill for a very long time. It amounts to a significant amount – an amount that’s always just annoyed me. First of all, the USF has been around since the early days of the telephone industry as a fund to provide for expansion into remote and rural areas of the country, including Alaska. Made sense then, today, I don’t think so. Continue reading
Posted in Legal Issues Online, Personal, Technology News
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Tori's Sacred Booty Taboo for Tattoos
Tori’s Sacred Booty Taboo for Tattoos — Tattoos may be trendy, but it seems that their placement may be directed by none other than Dean McDermott – well, that is if you are Tori Spelling according to the “TattooBlog“… Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity Gossip, Weird News
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Storms Brewing from a Stellar View
NASA’s view of this storm in it’s initial formation is simply incredible. Near-Ground and Atmospheric Imagery are two of the vital missions of the International Space Station. Now with over a quarter million images amassed to date, this project has been able to provide scientists with valuable insight into various areas that were previously fuzzy or not clear due to the lack of visual review. Continue reading
Posted in Sights Online, Space/Astrology
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All-You-Can-Eat Cellular Pricing Patented?
Patents are continuing to cause people to scratch their heads and say, “that’s patentable?” MetroPCS, a regional cellular Verizon MVNO. With their unlimited pricing, and all-you-can-eat rate plan within their regional markets, they somehow secured a patent on such – now competing regional carriers Cricket and Leap want to offer the same service, and say they are suffering damage and irreparable injury. Are they serious? Continue reading
Posted in Business, News, Patent Issues
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Customer Service Key Focus at new FedEx Kinko's
Fedex Kinko’s, after undertaking a year long study, have completed a new store layout that will actually cost half of the current layout’s construction cost, and provide better customer service and convenience.
The company expects to open 200 of the new centers nationwide by June 2007. FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services, Dallas, has locations in 11 countries. The centers are about one-third the size of a traditional store. They feature twice the number of office products, such as business papers and writing instruments, as well as new technology offerings such as DVD media, thumb drives and mobile phone accessories. Continue reading
Posted in Business, Marketing
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Strippers at Beijing Funerals Under Scrutiny
Strippers at Funerals are raising hairs in Beijing. Police swooped last week after two groups of strippers gave “obscene performances” at a farmer’s funeral in Donghai County, Jiangsu province, Xinhua news agency said according to a Reuters report. Continue reading
Posted in Weird News
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