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All throughout the day, I’ve been getting the same message from different people. I have been doing ok with spam since I’ve gone with googles gmail program. It catches most spam. If the program doesn’t catch certain spam messages, you can notify it that what you have is a spam message. After a while, it learns from this and applies it to future messages.

I don’t know if the spammers found a way around the spam filters, or if Google just takes a little bit longer with the particular method that these guys use. The messages are very close in the way that they are worded. Here is one of them:

Attn: Subscribers, Stockbrokers, Analysts & Investors,

KDW Telecom Inc.
Symbol:KDWJ.PK
Current Price:$0.31

Hottest New Telecommunications Technology in 2005:

VoIP: Voice Over Internet Protocol

Some of These Litt|e VOIP Stocks Have Been Real|y Moving Lately,
And When Some of them Move, They Rea|ly Go…Gains of 100%, 2O0%.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is the next internet based technology that will change they way people communicate.Industry analysts’ made a projection of about 10 million U.S. homes having a VoIP line by 2010. The future for VoIP is bright. Price will be key in who gets the largest slice of the talking pie.

In a decision certain to leave people talking, KDW Telecom Ltd. announced its entrance into the South American market. In a move to garner support from all facets of tele-communications customers and shareholders, KDW Telecom Ltd. will offer not only local services but long-distance airtime as well, centered in the user home country-long distance throughout South America as well as upgrade plans that will include North America and Europe will be available, as well.

About the company:
The company is a Telecommunications service provider specializing in VoIP Telephony. It has begun implementing all new technological advances in this field and is prepared to meet the challenges in our ever-expanding world.KDW Telecom Ltd. is currently in negotiations with major international telecommunications service providers in an attempt to gain international co-location and obtain switch partitioning services. The company also plans on stationing numerous technical presence points in major European cities, extending their reach overseas. Such a move would revolutionize the business potential of the company, extending profits to unheard of heights.The world is not getting any smaller; KDW Telecom Ltd. is a company that is sure to grow exponentially over the next few months. Investors should note that already this company has extended its service centers into the South American market with great results-an entrance into the European market would send prices of this stock skyrocketing.This is the chance for you-the investor-to get in on the ground floorâof what is sure to be one of the windfall stocks of 2005.

DISCLAIMER
Statements contained in this release that are not strictly historical are “forward-looking” statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements are made based on information available as of the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. Editors and investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements invoke risk and uncertainties and the company’s actual results may differ from these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to demand for the company’s products and services, our ability to continue to develop markets, general economic conditions, our ability to secure additional financing for the company and other factors that may be more fully described in reports to shareholders and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

I’ve tried looking at the headers and such to figure out where this is comming from. It all looks chinease to me. The best that I can do is post the headers from each message and see if anyone can take it from here. I think my attempt is in vain. These accounts usually don’t exist or they are full. I hate spammers. Why do they choose to send me the same message 10 times in one day?

Kelvin Howell:

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Shelby Singleton:

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Lorena Golden:

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Iris Bowling:

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Madeline L. Wilkins:

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Tags: Spam, Scam, Stock, Money, Filter, Email

I missed a post for yesterday on my blog. You see what happens when I get addicted to video games? Time passes by and I don’t realize that it is getting late. I keep going on thinking that I’ll just finish a quest and then I’ll be done. My mind gets side tracked and I think to myself that I got to improve my skills or cap them off at the current limits.

Here I am trying to finish off a Nightsaber on my quest to improve my skinning and leatherworking skills. I just figured out the whole skill thing tonight. Well, I only figured out these two.

If you don’t hear from me for a while - you’ll know why.

Tags: WarCraft, Game, Addiction, Time, Fun

It looks like I’m on the Big Time Entertainment mailing list or maybe it’s because we are old friends.

Hi all…
Lots of changes at the Big Time Entertainment site. Check it out and you’ll see http://www.bigtimeent.com/

Also, new show added - The 1st Annual Big Daddy’s Day Festival is happening on Sunday, June 19th. Hyper Chyld will take the stage from 1-2pm, followed by MDA from 3-5pm, then Unbroken from 6-8pm. There will be raffles, prizes, givaways, food, drinks and more. This is an all ages event so make sure your there!!

The site looks a lot better then the old one (not that there was anything wrong with the old one). If you are into accoustic guitar music and are in the mid-atlantic region (around Baltimore, MD), then go and check them out.

They schedule shows and help band members find gigs and bands.

Tags: Guitar, Acoustic, Plugs, Website, Friends

It looks like Blizzard entertainment is taking a big step. They actually went ahead and implemented P2P (Peer-2-Peer) technology to distribute updates to there new online game, Worlds of WarCraft.

P2P is a technology that lets many people share files over a network. You have a client that connects to these people so that you can download small parts of the file from many people at the same time. This lets you download faster then if you download the entire file from one person.

This is also an econimical solution for Blizard Entertainment. They do not have to deal with bandwidth constraints when a new patch is released. After one person downloads the file, Blizards servers are instantly reduced to only half the bandwidth that was required. As more people download the files, the less bandwidth is needed.

I love this technology. The only other place that I have seen it was with music and movie file sharing programs (such as Napster, bit torrent, lime wire). These file-sharing programs are still controversial today.

Tags: WarCraft, P2P, File Sharing, Peer-2-Peer, Game

I did it. I purchased World of Warcraft (by Blizzard Entertainment). I just sat through more then an hour of installation. These games are getting to be large. I am easily bored and found myself programming while the installation was taking place.

Some games give you something to do during installation (such as The Sims) while others will present fun little facts and helpful tips. This game only had a progress bar. Yuck! At least they had some animated flames on a picture in the background.

I am off to get lost in another world. I’ll catch you on the flip-side.

Tags: Game, WarCraft, Install, Software, Rant, User Task Analysis

I’m a happy camper. I’ve been using Flickr for a while now. Flickr is a nice service that lets me store and manage photos online. I get to assign titles, descriptions, and also tag my images. Also, people can leave comments for my images.

I just got a very surprising email. Read on …

Hi lewismoten!

You may have heard on the grapevine that we planned to reward our dear Flickr members who bought a Pro Account in the early days. Well, it’s true! And since you’re one of those lovely people, here’s a little something to say YOU ROCK!

1. Double what you paid for!

   Your original 1 year pro account has been doubled to 2 years, and your new expiry date is Dec 26, 2006.

2. More capacity!

   Now you can upload 2 GB per month.

3. 2 free Pro Accounts to give away to your friends!

   This won’t be activated for a day or two, but when it is, you’ll see a note on your home page telling you what to do.

Thank you so much for putting your money where your mouth is and supporting us, even while we’re in beta. Your generosity and cold, hard cash helped us get where we are today.

Kind regards,
The Flickreenies.

PS - You can check out your account history here:
http://www.flickr.com/account/order/history/

This is just so cool. I’m so happy with these guys. I keep getting surprised (in a good way) every now and then with what they are all about and the features they offer.

Tags: Flickr, Rewards, Beta, Email, Random Acts of Kindness

I just checked out some of the statistics of my visitors. Some people who are on the internet have some pretty dirty minds. Someone found me by looking for “my wife” “didn’t know” “up her skirt” on Google to find a post called “Pleasing of “The Guests” with trash“. I had a rant about some unwanted company having a party in my house.

Tags: Skirt, Queries, Dirty, Wife, Statistics

I’m just going through some old pictures on my hard drive and sending them over to my flickr account. I found one of my old employee pass for Winchester Amusement Co.

After that, I found one of the worst public photos of me from a news paper clipping. That’s me on the left pulling the chains out for each of the seats on the Yo-Yo swing ride.

It was fun to see how all the rides were assembled and disassembled. On the last night of the carnival, we would disassemble everything and set it up at the next location - all in one night. I would be worn out by time the sun came up.

The inside of the Yo-Yo had a greesy ladder that I had to climb up. I then had to turn a valve to release the hydrolic pressure. I am extreamly scared of heights. The slivers of metal combined with the greese on the ladder didn’t help much as my hands would be in pain from gripping too tight out of fear.

For $75 per week, this was the first job that I had after I came back from college. Yea, I was sitting up at nights in my tent and really hateing life. I couldn’t make it in college, and I felt like I couldn’t make it here either.

After that job, my mom helped me get a job at the chicken factory over in Moorefield, West Virginia. That place was a night mare. It was a literal Slaughter House.

Tags: Employment, Carnival, Carnie, Work, Job

Back when I was living in White Marsh, Maryland I had a neighbor with two children next door. One was in high school, the other in elementary school. Being in middle school myself, there wasn’t much we had in common other then being neighbors.

Some of you may have heard that I’ve been replying to my moms constant emails of jokes and chain letters. Since I have been replying to everyone that she carbon-copied, I have started to hear from long lost friendships. I got an email today from a past neighbor.

Hehe, I dont hear from you often but here lately you keep sending me this stuff and I love it. Ok so I went to your website, interesting….can you do me a favor Mr. PC Whiz?? I am a booking agent for local musicians and I just booked a $(big money) show and I need an animated gif made but dont know how to do it. On my old pc I had a program that did it, but I dont have it anymore and am lost!!!!

Let me know and if so, I will send you the pictures needed for it, etc.

Thanks.
Love,
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Big Time Entertainment
410-609-0127
www.bigtimeent.com

Mgr. / P.R. MDA/Acoustic MoJo
www.mdaband.com

www.mdparty.com/acousticmojo

“The people we become are not always the people who we are”

Man, that was really cool. I checked out the sites and it appears that they are specifically oriented towards accoustic music in Balitmore, Maryland. My sister in-laws fiance (is that rite? I think it’s still a toss-up). Any how, my sister in-laws significant other is always playing his guitar here and I think he has a band.

I ran down stairs and asked if he was interested in that sort of thing. He said sure and thanked me for the links. He and his band mates were starting to look into something like that.

I replied that I could throw a few images together and she gave me some instructions to put together the images for the upcomming gig. Here is my first attempt. I’m crossing my fingers.

I created a separate blog to post all of my dreams to each day. You can find it over at Lewies Dreams. I also created three podcast xml files too:

• Dreams
• Programming
• Other

I’m going to hold back from posting audio to this blog here. There are now two blogs that I’m going to try to post at least once each day. Lewies Dreams - where I post an audio file of what I dreampt of, and this one where I write text of just about anything that I find interesting.

I’m debating if I should post the text version of each audio file as well. My wife finds that it is easier to read ahead quickly since I appear to just … Lag. I agree with her. It was hard to keep myself from reading ahead when I listened to myself talk. The other benefit is that if I am not clear, you can read what I am saying.

A final benefit - search engines. Search engines love to pick up on keywords in text. They don’t do so well with audio. I don’t know if there is a search engine out there specifically meant for searching audio files. It would be interesting if they could pull out Lyric3 tags, or have some kind of speech recognition.