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Happy New Year everyone!!! I pray that 2007 will be a great year filled with only good things!!! Stay safe online and off. Pat God bless everyone

Hello Joe, Wow that is something to think about for sure. What a mess this internet world is if we can't trust an innocent looking/sounding Google link to either an image or a site article etc. Did you have safe search on on your Google search? (under preferences also safe search works whether you have the toolbar or just go to Google search from a link as I do now.) Have you checked the image on Google with right click properties to see who or what it is? Or the site that hosts it? I read a warning a long time ago on that other board, by Pete I think, about how hot links (which at the time I

Something I thought of while rereading this thread, with auto backup programs...if you got hit with a virus or other bad junk...wouldn't your auto backup be transferring that virus or whatever to the other hard drive? Perhaps scheduling a full scan/cleanup of computer before the backup would prevent damage to stuff on second hard drive. I always scan with my F-Secure Internet Security before doing any backups...to flash or to cd just to be as sure as I can that what is backed up is clean enough to replace anything I lost for whatever reason. Pat God bless everyone

You are welcome. Glad I could clarify it for you and others. I just thought it sounded a bit fishy even though this non techie gal wasn't sure of the alphabet soup label but thought it sounded like Tech not Drugs, so decided to see what the site was all about, next step would have been to go to one of the urban legend sites to see if they had anything like that story. Pat God bless everyone

Mike I am so sorry about what happened to your Aunt. All of these cases are so sad, both for the victim, the abuser/murderer, and everyone connected with them. Lots of what ifs and if onlys can be thought of, but nothing changes the reality of bad choices made even worse by escalated control-freak violence. I narrowly escaped from an abusive situation (1st husband). The only reason I am alive is he didn't have the guts to actually pull the trigger or to beat me to death all the times he tried to for which I am very thankful!!! But escape wasn't easy way back then, and still isn't for women (an

Happy Birthday!!! May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

Just in case anyone takes the story to seriously and starts ranting and raving about the kids on drugs or the teachers not knowing much about tech (or drugs), here are the first couple of paragraphs found on the site's ABOUT section. "Called "the world's greatest tech humour site" by The Register, BBspot creates entertainment for the geekier side of the world. BBspot produces a variety of features like fake news stories satirizing the tech and political worlds, the BBspot Mailbag which pokes fun at the Believers (people who believe our fake news) and much more. BBspot was started by Brian Bri

I'm pretty much a non techie, so simple works very well for me. Depending on whether she has her OS disks, to do a reinstall, rather than mirror the os onto a second drive, and depending on how much stuff she wants to backup, she might just be able to get away with a flash drive or two or three...I have seen sale packs of 3 (1 gig each) for about 30 to 40 dollars. Also with Xp she has system restore for minor glitches and hopefully her os disks for major ones. I just back up essential stuff to my flash drives every month, alternating the flash drives so I always have a for sure backup in ca

Some of our pipes in this town are over a hundred years old. I'm sure our area's are close to that too, in fact we still have horse rings in the parking strip curbs to tie up the horses way back when. I heard a city engineer on the news tonight saying it could happen anywhere in town. Said they send a camera probe through all the sewer pipes every five to ten years which does an adequate job to check for trouble. Hmmm... adequate is an interesting word...depending on how they define it. Yes we have the freezing and thawing weather problem too! Had a tiny sink hole start in our intersection a y

Welcome back Nefrai, glad you remembered to come back. I confess that I forget about going to some of my forums for weeks or months at a time, then on a slow night on my regular boards I finally remember I have other boards to check out. If they aren't doing much then I go lurk at some possible future boards just for fun. Hope you find your way back here more often than in past. This is still my favorite board to relax, destress, and to just have fun gabbing with board friends all over the world. Pat God bless everyone

We'll miss you!!! Enjoy the train trip. Sounds like a great way to relax before Walmart shopping session!!! I love to travel by train though haven't done so for about 20 years. Sigh! Pat God bless everyone

I hope the workers get over their injuries soon. I hope we don't have anymore sinkholes, if one can be big enough to take in a city truck with no warning, then our little Subaru Justy wouldn't have a chance but also it isn't as heavy. Sure glad the broken gas line didn't explode with impact of crash. Had a broken water main in a busy street downtown last week (or was it week before?), now this. Katu tv story Sinkhole swallows truck Pat God bless everyone

Happy New Year everyone!!! Pat God bless everyone

Happy Birthday Mychal. May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

Feathers (Eiderdown feather pillow) Pat God bless evreryone

I saw this article this morning and thought others might like to hear the background story of how the funny Zelda cards and books came into being. Portland's role playing bulldog Zelda I wish the online Oregonain article showed the cute pictures that were in paper edition, but the Zelda website gives a taste of Zelda. Zelda's website Enjoy. Pat God bless everyone

Hi Mike, Yes I thought so too until this whole mess erupted but it turns out that the Pac10 conference is so cheap that not much is given to the replay booth official(s) to have available for review. (We live in a tech world, but they (Pac10) seem to be in the dark on how to advance with the times.) Of course the Pac10 people higher up all denied that he didn't have ample information and they even said there was NO Pressure on him...yeah right...all later refuted by others as bogus PR spin!!! Ooops just reread your post, yes there was vindication by the records of what he had at time he made

This is so tragic JD, Unfortunately as others have said, that piece of paper doesn't really help protect a person at all. In fact often makes the situation worse. And another thing that isn't commonly known, that restraining order doesn't cover alot of territory. Sometimes only the boundaries of the county it was written in, and if a larger region, it probably is only good in that state. Not even to nearby ones as I found out a long time ago the hard way!!! Those RO papers are not recognized across many jurisdictions and not across state lines either!!! False security for sure!!! So sad that o

You might notice that I am bringing up an old thread of mine. Yes it really is from Sept, but I thought it was important to add this additional column of John Canzano's about the terrible way people across the country have continued to react ad nauseum to a bad call by the instant replay official in one stupid game. On this day that we celebrate the birth of Jesus, I wonder if many haven chosen other gods....such as football or other sports, or power, or politics, or money as their god? I think this whole episode is a sad commentary on this country's values. Please continue to pray for Mr Gord

Oooops!!!! Misquote!!! Misquote!!!! Last part of that was Marty, not me!!! HA HA HA!!!! Had a good laugh over how your post got mixed into mine there, Marty. HaHa!! Glad you have a spray? for your angina? that helps. What is it a nitro spray, or? If Nitro, be sure to watch dates that it is good for, at least with the pills they used to with time become useless, but maybe improved now. Pat God bless everyone

Hugs to you too my friend and good night. Hubby has been nagging me for an hour to quit and go to bed... "yeah honey just as soon as I catch up here"...then he growls, then I growl, then we laugh albeit a bit hoarsely!!! Serves us right too!!! Ha!!! Good night all. Happy Birthday Jesus!!! Pat God bless everyone

Happy Belated Birthday Naraku!!! May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

Hello Shane welcome to the best forum around. We are a big (world wide) family, and we always like adding more to our happy go lucky group. Hope you will like spending time with us. I am one of the helpers here....yeah right!!! Actually I just help Liz run amuck, or she helps me, whichever works out at the time. Anyhow we all have fun, but you'll find we really do care about each other on this board too. Merry Christmas from our house to yours. Pat God bless everyone

Merry Christmas everyone!!! Pat God bless everyone

Count me in on the cranky side of life!!! This scratchy throat/very little voice/headache bug is just bad enough that I don't want to do anything!!! Procrastinated on doing my Christmas cards, so maaaaybe will sit down this week adn do them? Better late than never I guess....and you sure find out who only sends you a card because you sent them one when you wait this long to send any. Guess I can cut my list waaaay back!!! Good!!! Saves stamps that way!!! And I could wait until summer and then send out the late cards and count them for both this year and next??? Sounds like a plan to me!!! Did