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Heh!  This is just soo crazy and wacky I had to post it.

Check out the Rotary Dial Browser!

http://david-lu.net/v4/work/phonedial/

It takes a certain brain type to think up something like that.  That’s pure genius!

I just found one heck of a cool site.  It’s called TextFiles.Com.  Basically this guy has compiled text files from the old BBS days.  Of course this was all before my time.  Still, I like to think I’m an old school geek and I find these times facinating and wish I had been around to partake in it all.

BBS stands for Bulletin Board System.  Back in the days before the Internet and Web people would connect to these systems and hang out.  Leaving messages, chatting, etc.  Think of it as sort of what message boards are today.  Only you had to directly dial your computer to the BBS system to log in and there was no AIM, pictures, mp3s, etc.

The collection of files this guy has is downright impressive!  Much of what took place on these boards is stored there so it’s worth taking a look at for historical reasons alone.

Jump on over to TextFiles.Com and browse for a while.  What better do you have to do on a lazy Sunday?

I saw a rather interesting article at IT World about the growing number of zombie systems popping up in China.

Zombie is the term for a computer that has been infected with a Trojan horse program that hackers can control.  It allows the hackers to take control of a computer so it can be used as part of a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack or send spam messages.  The main point being that the owner/user of the computer is completely unaware that their computer has been compromised.

Here’s the quote that blows me away

“An average of 157,000 new zombies are identified each day, and 20 percent of these are in China, security company CipherTrust Inc. reported this week.”

One hundred and fifty thousand!?!?  That drives me nuts!  It’s a sheer lack of common sense and stupidly that allows numbers like that to get infected every day.

Come on people!  Get your heads together and realize that owning a computer and being connected to the Internet is dangerous.  You have to take care of your computers.  Get virus protection and USE IT!  Download and install system patches and updates OFTEN!  If you use Windows XP download and install Service Pack 2 and let it set itself to automatically download and install system updates for you.

Do these things not just for yourself but for the global population.  Your lack of action can cause real harm to other people.

Yesh not again… I’m addicted to the show “Lost” on ABC.  They keep screwing with me and making me think there are new episodes on but in reality you get a rerun.  The basic problem is they show previews for the new episode each week even if it’s going to be rerun next time and you have to wait two weeks.

It seems that most shows are nice enough to not show previews if the next time will be a rerun.  Sort of a sublilimal message that next week is a rerun.  I wish Lost would do that too.

Anyhoo, here’s the schedule for rest of the season.  This is more for my reference then anything since I easily forget things.  HEH!

april 20 - Outlaws (Rerun)
april 27 - Flashback Special
may 04 - The Greater Good (new)
may 11 - Born to Run (new)
may 18 - Exodus part 1 of season finale
may 25 - Exodus part 2 of season finale (2hrs)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected today as Pope Benedict XVI.

That was a very short conclave!  There are mix reviews of the new Pope but I believe he was a very good choice.  Ratzinger is a very staunch believer in classic Catholicism.  He was the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  Basically, his job was to be the leader for the protection of the Church’s doctrine.  For all the liberals that complain about the Churches refusal to “modernize” he’s the man behind the scenes keeping you from getting your way!

That’s why I think he was the right choice.  Now more than ever Catholics need a strong Pope that will keep the faith and refuse to cave to American liberalisms push to change the Church.  Religion is something you follow as is.  It’s not a buffet where you can pick and choose what you like and skip what you don’t.  It’s all or nothing here folks.

Anyways, we’re in a new era and it’s very exciting to see where we go from here.