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getting cable again?
July 12th, 2004
we haven’t had any sort of cable or antenna systems for more than three years. mediacom is the monopoly for our local cable for a long time. just recently direct TV is hitting this area too. what i hate about cable is you are paying a lot for many channels you really do not care for. but sometimes i do wish to watch news and sport events on TV. i also miss the discovery channel and a few others that i used to enjoy watching. after moving to our new house, we are saving about $100/month in utilities & rent so i’m thinking about the possibility of getting cable. i’ve explored the option of installing an antenna but some hawkeye sports are played on espn2 at times. it seems to defeat the purpose of “having TV” and yet have to go to andy’s brother’s to watch certain shows. i wonder how much do you pay for cable? here, it’s $40/month for the most basic ones.
fishing bubo
July 11th, 2004
lots of people were at our house yesterday watching fishing bubo 
download here (4.9mb)
imposter email
July 7th, 2004
it might have happened before but this is the first time someone had told me about it. i know spam companies are using real email addresses that don’t belong to them to send spams. someone got an email from my old email address with the following message:
subject: hi
message: Try this, or nothing!
attachment: document05.zip
X-Rocket-Spam: 217.44.14.205
X-YahooFilteredBulk: 217.44.14.205
X-Rocket-Track: 10: 20 ; IPCR=n-w0,n100,g0 ; IP=217.44.14.205 ;
SERVER=216.155.197.128
X-Originating-IP: [217.44.14.205]
Return-Path:
Received: from 217.44.14.205 (EHLO yahoo.com) (217.44.14.205)
by mta106.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:56:46 -0700
From:
To:
Subject: hi
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:56:59 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=”—-=_NextPart_000_0016—-=_NextPart_000_0016″
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Try this, or nothing!
name=”document05.zip”
the real sender’s ip is 217.44.14.205 which traces to
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (BTCENTRALPLUS-DOM)
81 NEWGATE STREET
LONDON, GREATER LONDON EC1A 7AJ
GB
it seems yahoo knows it’s a spam too in the header. but the person who got the email, her email client apparently didn’t block it. with so many places now you can send emails online with email addresses that don’t belong to you; impostering a person can never be easier. didn’t many companies have troubles with imposters sending out emails to their clients to ask for their passwords?! a lot of sites now warn their members that they will never ask for their passwords by email.
the lesson is, don’t ever trust a email sent to you until you verify the sender’s ip!
