The Story of Stuff. I’m kinda more conscious of what we use and what we waste these days so I found this an interesting video. I mean, why buy and accumulate so much stuff to begin with? (Especially when you don’t need it). Gin and I have bought barely anything since coming here (okay, our apartment is fully furnished but we haven’t really bought anything additional that we don’t use).

Anyway, so maybe you guys should stop trawling eBay all the time too…

Somebody tell me how he does the hand trick at the start.

Keith Barry: Brain magic

Two things I need to buy and I know you guys can either source a good price for me or provide recommendations on what to buy.

1) A set of ear phones with a 2.5mm jack (I’m sick of my standard O2 Atom ones falling out all the time).

2) A digital camcorder, in the $800 price range, as I want to buy one for my parents.

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We were having a laugh about this the other night, so I thought it was about time to bring this back up again…

This is a ‘virus’ with which I’ve just been hit.

You computer geeks probably know all about it but as a lay person, I needed to do some research on it.

This is a ‘rogue antispyware’ which downloads itself on your computer and pretends to scan your drives. It then falsely claims that you have a lot of viruses on your computer and forces you to buy their program. There are a lot of people out there who have sent their credit card details wanting to buy this fake antispyware program but have received nothing apart from a lighter wallet.

When Malwawre Alarm produced a pop-up on my laptop (while on ESPN website), I knew that it could be fake so I clicked to exit the program. However, even if you click on the “Cancel” (or equivalent) button, it won’t stop downloading. Anyway it installed itself and as a result, my computer ran very slowly and it got rid of my desktop background picture. I still can’t change the desktop background from a blank screen!

Anyone know how to fix that?

I’ve since been on ESPN again using other computers and Malware Alarm has popped up a couple more times. I clicked on the “Close (X)” button and that did the trick.

I’ve run Ad-Aware on my computer and I think that it’s now free of viruses. Only problem is the desktop background picture.

I hate these f#(k3r$ who commit these crimes. They ought to be whacked.

On our recent US trip, we purchased Broadway tickets on the Internet via Ticketmaster website. Yesterday my credit card bill came and I found that I had a charge of US$9 under the name “Entertainment Rewards”. I didn’t know what that was so rang American Express who researched it. It seems that when you use Ticketmaster to buy tickets, you’re automatically signing up a subscription with Entertainment Rewards, which is a company that offers vouchers for restaurants, hotels, etc. Apparently it’s in the small print. This subscription costs US$9 per month!

Very, very dodgy!!!

Anyway, American Express were kind enough to refund the US$9 and I cancelled my membership with Entertainment Rewards.

I Googled “Entertainment Rewards” and it seems that a lot of people have been ripped-off by them too!

Glad to see that I’m not the only one!

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