Home Personal Homepage Mariners Blog Recipe Blog Comments welcome by email. I don't care if you disagree with me but name-calling and cussing are not acceptable. Comments that are just rude and not relevant will not be posted. « # Pacific NW Blogs ? » My Blogroll Blogroll Me! Enter your email address below to subscribe to Carol's Chaotic Collection of Curiosities ! powered by Bloglet	Saturday, June 28, 2003       Harry Potter Only 300 pages left to go! I think I must need new glasses again because I used to be able to read a lot more in one sitting than I can now... Still, I'm farther along in the story than most of my (also middle-aged) friends, who only got one copy of the book and so have to take turns with other family members. (Chalk up one more for living by yourself!) At least all of us slowpokes are being respectful of each other and avoiding as much discussion of the book as possible until everybody's caught up. Well, this is the end of blogging and reading of blogs for today. I will now be focusing on ice cream, baseball (Padres at Mariners, in progress) and magic for the rest of the evening. Harry Potter Breaks Sales Records Harry Crushes the Hulk Harry Potter Fever Harry Potter Has Invaded My Subconscious How Harry Saved Amazon From the Abyss Leave the Classics ALONE! New Potter Book Sets Web Record Potter Author's Reading Treat Potter 'Is Fastest-Selling Book Ever' Potter Mania Sweeps Nation Potter Smashes UK Sales Record Potter Publisher Plots Its Next Trick Printing Flurry for US Potter Books Update Whole World's Wild About Harry Why Harry Potter Rules The Wizard's Creator Answers a World of Fans Young Potter Fans See Hero Maturing With Them 8:16:09 PM     Which Simpsons Character Are You? Lisa Simpson!! you enjoy to play the saxophone and do well in school, well good for you! maybe you should at least try to be a little funnier and less of a nerd then maybe you would have more friends.....no offense...... Which Simpsons Character Are You? brought to you by Quizilla 7:55:40 PM           Do Not Call I haven't had to mess with telemarketers for years! Brand new unlisted number works wonders, to start with. (Being online so much they can't get through doesn't hurt either.) Also, here the local laws regarding telemarketing are already very strict and strongly enforced. There have been a few illegal calls to my number by autodialers (RealAudio) but not more than once or twice a year and it's a real joy to report them. (heh heh heh) And then there are a few callers who got my phone number legally—not with my permission however!—who only have to be told once to never call back. But it's obvious that the new national no-call list is being welcomed with open arms by others. Not that I'm going to give them my number—don't need to. (As long as the tougher local law isn't superseded anyway...) About Reducing Junk Calls 'Do-Not-Call' List Is Hit with Consumers Down with Telemarketers! If the Phone Doesn't Ring... Just Say No to Telemarketers National Do Not Call Registry National Do-Not-Call Registry Overwhelmed by Eager Public No More Ringy-Dingies? Smart Guys... System to Curb Sales Calls Overwhelmed on First Day Telemarketers Do NOT Have a God-Given Right to Their Jobs 7:48:07 PM     Miscellany § - The Day Edmunds Street Stood Still - More excitement than we've had in my neighborhood... § - Best idea I've seen in years! - ScooterMan § - Customer service? - Mum blames Telstra for son's death § - Web privacy policies confuse Net surfers - "More than half of the 1,200 adults surveyed for the report wrongly believed that the mere presence of a privacy policy meant that that the Web site would not sell or trade personal information about them." § - Slurred Speech - "If people stopped acting like victims there would be better race relations." § - Harry Crushes the Hulk - "Here's what's wrong with kids in the digital age. They live in front of their TV and PC screens. They steal music online. Their attention span is zilch. They multitask on everything and concentrate on nothing except video games. They will buy any trashy product that the media goliaths can sell them, then drop it as soon as the next big hype comes along. That's merely the short list of hard-wired assumptions that were short-circuited by last weekend's publication of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." 1:06:51 PM     Another Week of Spam in the News The spam doesn't stop coming and people don't stop writing about it! Another Junk Fax Are Spammers Planting Viruses in Your PC? 'Cajun King of Spam' Stirs Pot of Controversy The CAN-SPAM Act Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point E-mail Scam Apes Best Buy Site 'Free Car' Spam a Growing Problem Gates Roasts Spam Illegal for Use to Send an Unsolicited Resume to a Potential Employer? Man Pleads Guilty in 'Nigerian Scam' Case Merlin's Spamtrap Catches a Grifter A Bit More on "Do Not Spam" Lists as "Please Spam Me" Lists Nations Target Spam, Fraud New Fronts Opened in War on Spam Pay Up! The "Please Spam Me Registry"? Septic Spam Setting the Rules for ISPs and Spammers Sick and tired of the SCUMMY SPAM Spam Annoys Congress on Both Sides of Aisle US Anti-Spam Laws Move Ahead To all of those people who have ever bought something from a Spammer and thus have given them a reason to continue their work....may they rot! I turned off the Earthlink anti-spam setting because it had filtered out an important email from a shop in Brooklyn that is repairing my watch...and now I get over 50 emails a day and 90% are spam. And they jam up my precious cellphone connection... Ottmar Liebert Almost a month ago I got an e-mail from someone at "Microsoft Recruiting" in regards to a new search engine at MSN. It looked like boilerplate that they'd sent out to about a billion people, so I took little happiness in the fact that someone associated with Microsoft noticed my existence. Besides, they spelled my name wrong. Research Buzz 1:04:31 AM     © Copyright 2005 Carol Andrus. Last update: 8/24/2005; 6:58:31 PM.	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