Tuesday, May 13, 2003

What the hell does "motile" mean?  I know the adjective means, "it moves" as in bacteria with a a little tail.  I learned that in Biology.  But, according to Websters, "motile"  is also a noun meaning " a person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action." HUH??? What sort of person is this?  The guy who sits on a couch and imagines himself going out to get a job? How do you use that word?  Hello, My name is Tim.  I am a motile. Or do you only know a door jam is there when you bash your head against it? Does this mean me when I try to think really hard about something and all I can conjure up is an image of a hacksaw cutting through a pipe? Or does it mean your prevailing mental imagery is all about your digestion and heartbeat? 10:46:28 PM    comment []

I tried out Spybot Search and Destroy on my work computer after reading about it on the HTML Goodies to Go newsletter.  It is free and very easy to install.  It found a whole bunch of crazy stuff including Gator, which sells your information to a host of advertisers.   I would like to see a comparison of Spybot Search and Destroy against Pest Patrol, which I paid for and which has a bewildering array of choices that I might have to study more to really learn it...  Spybot S & D did give me the message that there were some incompatibilities with Pest Patrol, meaning that Pest Patrol would give some warnings about spyware that was really part of Spybot S & D. Spybot identified some problems that Pest Patrol did not identify when I ran it recently.  Example:  Spybot S & D found a fastclick cookie that Pest Patrol did not find even though Pest Patrol boasted to get rid of fastclick cookies.  Spybot also found Internet Explorer holes that were good to know about.  It may be that I do not know how to use Pest Patrol correctly to find these spy cookies.  I also may need to update Pest Patrol.  Pest Patrol takes 15 minutes to go through my entire hard drive while Spybot does a scan for specific files related to spyware that takes about 90 seconds 9:19:23 PM    comment []

I am remote.  I am everywhere 11:28:50 AM    comment []