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Has anyone else been getting innocuous but irrelevant comments on their posts, from folks with dead URL's?  I hesitate to delete something as simple as just wanted to say hi but there are enough of them that I suspect I'm being set up for something.

I want to thank those of you who are clicking on the Vote for Watermark links on the sidebar -- these sites do brings me hits, and maybe -- hopefully -- readers. Might some of you be willing to scroll down further, and do one of the Rate Watermark links? 

I've updated the Aortal and Insignificant Microbe links -- two new blogs for you to explore.

Sometime this week my stat counter will count its 20,000th visit.  Wow.

I have taken down the Political Humor Poll; final tally:  67% thought both sites were funny; 8% thought only one site was funny; and 25% wondered what is wrong with me.  Total votes = 12.  I'm contemplating a poll on whether I should have polls.

The IT Kitchen is still up and active, with lots of good thinking for those interested in weblogging.

I've given up and put a NO slash through my NaNoWriMo icon. Maybe next year . . .

Anyone familiar with clevercactus ? It's a slick-looking p2p service (maybe they are all slick-looking; I've never looked at one before.) Since I have never managed to get my home network up, and neither was the computer geek I hired to do it, I'm wondering if I could use this to use/ move files between my own computers?  Are there downsides to this?

And finally, I got one of those phishing emails yesterday that pretended to be from PayPal. Sam tells me it's a worm that effects only IE users, which is not me. And the rest of you no longer have any excuse: Firefox 1.0 is now available!  It is so much better than IE. Go get it!

Comments

[jenett]

That clevercactus page says "Browse and access files between your different computers." I'm sure you saw that and since it's free for individuals, it might be worth a try (it says it's "private and secure" -- hopefully, that's true).

[Karen]

I'm afraid that my NaNoWriMo project that was never started will be added to the heap too...
Yes SB, thanks for selling me on Firefox - it's "mahvelous"!
I have been getting phishy e-mails from spoof e-bay, citibank & wells fargo. They seem like they're really acting up lately...

[Heather]

I get those innocent comments too but always delete them because it wastes people's time to click on the websites/ads even if they *are* dead links! Very annoying, yes.

[david]

Grrrrrrrr...I hate those comments, too - and I just don't understand the point. Non-existent domains? WTH?

[SB]

I went back to delete those comments, and TypePad had already done it. I love TypePad.

[Karpace]

Thanks for the link! I was wondering if anyone actually read what I wrote! haha, anyway I just do it to keep track of all the weird and wonderful thoughts. Aiming more for quality than quantity though, so have much problems churning out material regularly.

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