Duncan.co

Day: December 10, 2004

  • eiffel skating

    eiffel skating
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  • Pong

    Sweet Ping Pong Rally. (.asf)

  • Being Paranoid

    Whitehouse_ipRecently I’ve been feeling like hyper paranoid about things.  It started out with a ton of .mil (military servers) hitting up my blog.  Then it was the whitehouse.gov people.  Now its the people trying to change my Gmail passwords.  I’m getting HACKED the government is spying on me!  What should I do?

    Turns out my [-watched -too -many -god -damn -spy -movies] paranoia is unfounded. 

    The .mil guys were just a bunch of dudes kickin it in their dorm at Westpoint in Virginia looking for a music video.  How do I know?  They emailed me after I posted about it.

    The housegate6.whitehouse.gov I’m not sure about.  Its most likely just some security guard or some lackey looking for something on google and reaching my site.

    The Gmail password requests?  I thought originally peeps be trying to hack me yo.  Is someone trying to steal my identity?  Was my passport stolen?  Or did I just lose it?  Google keeps sending me password change request emails when I never asked to change my password.

    Turns out, there are just so many people coming to my website from all over the world looking for Gmail accounts that a few of them try to login using my spam account thelastminute.

    Why is this happening?  Most of these people do not speak English.  They reached my website by searching like "how to get a Gmail account" or some other rudimentary search from anywhere in the world.  They get to my site and they see my email address.  They figure out they can probably get into the system somehow using my account.  Then they start randomly clicking on stuff because it’s all in English and they do not read English.  The Gmail page looks to him like this page does to you.  They click on forgot your password and enter my email and I get an email saying you’ve requested to change your password and I get all paranoid and start changing all my 50 bazillion passwords across all my accounts.

    In reality its just some kid trying to get a Gmail account and not knowing what she is clicking on.  Why the hell would a government want to monitor what I’m doing anyway?

    I guess I should stop being such a paranoid weirdo.  Or should I?

  • Ann Coulter: Canadians “allowed” to share continent.

    Watch this little clip.  If you’re Canadian, it’s laughable.  If you’re an American hopefully you’ll be appalled.  If you’re from elsewhere you’ll be flat out shocked that this can make it’s way into millions of American homes on TV.

    Ann Coulter is such a nut job.

  • Webcast

    I’m watching this conference.

  • Geek Orchestra

    Some Japanese uber geeks playing music on their Nintendo DS’.

    Video (.asx) 

  • Google Suggest

    Google_suggest2Google_suggest1How long before Google becomes "self aware"?

    As you type, Google will offer suggestions about what you might want to search…  Too bad it exludes even mildly "dirty" words.  That takes the fun out of it right there…  Check out the Google alphabet.  Eric’s schteeze.  Ben Hammersley as well.  Daren.

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