(Courtesy of cyberdees on Flickr)

Getting rid of all your content can be difficult, as sites such a Spock (now Intellius), Google Buzz and Plaxo mirror your Web 2.0 profiles if you make the connections. 

Link:

• http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/58389 
• http://suicidemachine.org/
  

And for the Grand Finale..  

 With the data and graphs it is clearly evident: Pimps earn 93% more than Playas.

Links:

• http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=moby&l1=new+york%2C+ny&q2=peter+griffin&l2=quahog%2C+ri&q3=seth+green&l3=hollywood%2C+ca&q4=the+president&l4=washington%2C+dc 
• http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=pimp&l1=los+angeles%2C+ca&q2=playa&l2=chicago%2C+il
  

Why the name Franklin?  When we were trying to come up with a good name for him, we found that Benjamin Franklin was lover of Dalmatians, and the name stuck!     

More pictures here:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaron_anderer/sets/72157623576043544/
  

(Photo Courtesy of Giovanni Spina on Flickr)

Last weekend we made the trip to Costco to purchase some groceries and pick up a new cordless phone for the house.  The last unit we had was purchased sometime in the 2003/2004 time frame after then-puppy Hazel had brutally destroyed one of the handsets from our VTech cordless and Duke had chewed most of the plastic off another handset.  The last phone was another Costco purchase and was chosen because it was inexpensive and the model that they had in the store that week.  That Panasonic phone set endured countless handling atrocities such as having the handsets dropped hundreds of times on concrete, tile and laminate flooring.  While the handsets avoided the dog chew toy treatment that the last phone endured, they had been carried or munched on to some extent.  The final nail in the coffin for this fine example of Panasonic engineering happened to come from our cat Oprah.  As a cat with diabetes, she sometimes communicates her displeasure through the fine art of urination.  So we ended up buying a similar Panasonic model at Costco for $60 USD.  Note to Panasonic test engineers: Make sure your phone circuitry passes the cat urine test.  (Yahoo! Babel Fish tells me that it is this in Japanese: あなたの電話回路部品のパスを猫の尿検査確かめなさい ).  We are more than happy to provide Oprah as a "consultant" for a small fee.

From Federal Bureau Of Investigation Sun Feb 14 11:02:04 2010
From:        
"Federal Bureau Of Investigation"<robert@fbi.gov.us> 
Subject:         ***Mail From The FBI
Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
Seattle, Washington.
Telephone/Fax Number: (206) 426-2866

Attn: Beneficiary

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $850,000.00 US Dollars from a Lottery Company in the United Kingdom. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be authentic and paid to you via a Certified Cashier's Check. Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local bank. We have successfully come to an agreement this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $850,000.00  US Dollars has been deposited with Bank Of America.

We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Legitimate, Safe and 100% risk free of scams and frauds of any nature, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the lottery claims agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located at the liaison office of the Lottery Company in Seattle-Washington. According to our discoveries, you are required to pay for the following:

(1) Deposit Fee's (Fee's paid by the lottery company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank of America)
(2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee (Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check)
(3) Shipping Fee's (This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your nominated destination)

The total amount for everything is $299.99 (Two Hundred & Ninety Nine United States Dollars & Ninety Nine Cents). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $299.99 should be deducted from your winning prize but the funds have already been deposited at The Bank of America and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner. Therefore you will be required to pay the needed funds to your lotto claims Agent in-charge of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram. The payment will NOT reflect at the Bank of America with the given transaction code(EA2948-910) until you have covered the processing fees needed.
In order to proceed with this transaction, Click Here (lmj@gala.net) to contact your claims agent Mrs. Louise Major .You will be required to call her for verbal verification and e-mail her with the following informations:

FULL NAME:
FULL MAILING ADDRESS(INCLUDING CITY/STATE/ZIPCODE):
AGE/SEX/OCCUPATION:
CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS(CELL & HOME):

You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to send the required $299.99 in order to immediately ship your prize of $850,000.00 US Dollars via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from The Bank of America, Also include the following transaction code in order for her to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910. This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $299.99 ONLY to your claims agent via the information in which she shall send to you upon your request, if you do not receive your winning prize of $850,000.00 US Dollars we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY by you (The Winner).


Robert Mueller
Federal Bureau Of Investigation

(Photo courtesy of Dan Mogford on Flickr)

Open the extended posting for the full text.  Some hostname and ip addresses have been removed to protect the innocent.

Links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/419_scam
• http://www.419eater.com/
• http://www.ic3.gov/
  

Link:

• http://www.spectrox.com/flatulence.html
  

Links:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZgf32wVTd4
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
  

Here is a sneak peek from yesterday, just excuse the e-collar.

Link:

• http://www.adoptapet.com/adoption_rescue/73624.html
  

It may seem silly now to kids that have 16gb flash based iPod systems, but it was a big deal at the time to generate sound from a computer that could only beep in a few tones.  Storage was a huge thing too, you could fit dozens of these on a 1.2Mb floppy disk (yes kids, we actually did use 5.25" disks).   

The thing that surprised me, is that there are a bunch of file repositories on the web that have archived these gems.   While I don't have a machine at my house that can run ScreamTracker properly, it turns out that WinAMP and XMMS have the ability to do playback on this format.  I'm going to queue a few up and take a time machine back 20 years. 

Hey Rod!

Links:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOD_(file_format) 
  
• ScreamTracker Demo on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPK7s8aC3kg
• iPhone MOD Player - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ondDYdAf0uM
  
• MOD file downloads - http://fby.develer.com/fby/modulescollection.html
• MOD file downloads - http://www.hornet.org/music/
• MOD file downloads - http://modarchive.org/
  

Oh, and Happy Valentine's day everyone.

Link:

• http://www.youtube.com/my_speed
  

Links:

• http://www.squicky.org/
  

Links:

http://www.maartenbaas.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5PByaR2EQ

Links:

• http://www.sandylydon.com/html/hoo3.html
• http://www.sandylydon.com/html/sec.html
  
• http://www.sandylydon.com/