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Domain Registry Support?

I hadn't ever gotten a call from a domain scammer before, but today I got my first one. He wanted a fax number to send some sort of notification to. Since I know my domain isn't going to expire for a year, and I was pretty sure that neither my registrar nor my DNS host had asked these guys to call me, I quizzed him some, but he wasn't really able to answer any questions.

Just to be sure, I called my registrar, and they confirmed that these guys are probably some sort of scammer. After searching further on the Internet, I see that lots of people have had trouble with them.
It appears to be a company in Panama, so presumably there isn't anything I can do to stop them, other than warn people here.

Posted by jondaley on September 18, 2006, 4:58 pm | Read 611 times | Comments (1)
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Old Cell Phone...

I tried to re-activate our prepaid phone, but Cingular no longer supports TDMA phones, which is an older standard, but I hadn't realized that GSM had taken over that much. Our cell phone that we use regularly is also TDMA, but the sales guy said that it should last a while, as long as we don't cancel the plan.

It costs $30 for a new phone, and $15 for the minutes, and he has to ship it, the local offices only have $80 phones, so it isn't worth anything for this weekend's bike trips.

Posted by jondaley on August 25, 2006, 10:57 am | Read 803 times | Comments (12)
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ACLJ Harassment

We get a phone call every day between 8:55 and 9:00AM. They are always hangups, but today, I finally answered quick enough to actually get a person. It was the American Center for Law and Justice, and they refused to remove my phone number from their list.

I emailed jsekulow@aclj.org directly, I don't suppose he actually reads his own mail, but maybe he will do something about it.

Their member services say I am not on their lists, so their telemarketers must be calling, as if it makes any difference to me whether they are paying a person in the same building as them to call me, or if they hired an outside firm to call me.

I need to look up the number to the FCC - they fined MCI $400 (or maybe more - I got a check for $400) for bothering me in college.

Posted by jondaley on August 25, 2006, 9:19 am | Read 697 times | Comments (2)
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Bike Trip: Pittsburgh to Cheswick

And another trip for this week, out to the Kuhns. (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 24, 2006, 3:17 pm | Read 621 times | Comments (4)
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Bike Trip: Pittsburgh to Moon

I am planning on a couple bike trips in the next couple days, and figured I would write them down, one, in case I ever want to do them again, I will be able to find the route easier, and two, perhaps others will follow in my tire tracks. (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 24, 2006, 3:13 pm | Read 623 times | Comments (4)
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David Bailey

I was listening to "One More Day" and thought I would write a bit about him and his songs.
I first heard David when he came to CMU, I think in 1996, shortly after being given a couple months to live by his doctor due a large tumor. The only song I remember from his first visit to Carnegie Mellon was, "If I Had Another", which he sang slightly differently live than recorded, but basically it is the same song. (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 19, 2006, 1:39 pm | Read 504 times | Comments (1)
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Lime Daley is Successful!

I was updating my list of quotes that I have given people, and I noticed that I have hit the $500/month mark for revenue (not profit), seems like a significant number!

It has been fun, though sometimes too much work - hopefully someday will able to just work on Lime Daley stuff, rather than a full-time job as well.

Posted by jondaley on August 19, 2006, 1:11 pm | Read 551 times | Comments (1)
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Johari Window

Bill linked to a new (at least to me) personality profile thingy. I haven't done the Meyers-Briggs test in a while, but I have consistently scored ESFP, and I generally like that assessment. One version of the test had a fairly long paragraph describing ESFP's, and it fit exactly. (I always remember that I am ESFP, because I am exactly opposite of Daniel, and somehow INTJ is easier to remember. (More)

Posted by jondaley on August 2, 2006, 7:28 am | Read 1058 times | Comments (3)
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Thank You Mom (Daley)

(Originally read on the phone, Mother's Day, 2006)

Dear Mom,
I want to say some things to you and I thought it would be easier to write them in a letter because I am not very good with words and after all those years of getting me to write thank you notes, you know how hard it is for me to say, "Thank you".

I want to thank you for being my mom. (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 14, 2006, 7:34 pm | Read 692 times | Comments (0)
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Thank You, Mom (Wightman)

On the GirlTalk blog, they've been posting tributes from daughters to mothers, and I thought I'd write one for my own mom. (More)

Posted by joyful on May 14, 2006, 7:33 pm | Read 665 times | Comments (0)
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Bloggers Make The News?

I was poking around on Slashdot, a site I used to read regularly, but then decided it was taking too much time. I found an article about Microsoft trying buy a portion of Yahoo, and apparently Yahoo rejected their offer. (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 14, 2006, 6:10 am | Read 778 times | Comments (0)
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Dean Kamen Quote

I read an interview of Dean Kamen recently. I first heard of him when he was demoing his Segway invention around the mall in our very own Concord (I don't know if I will ever be a Pittsburgher - still feel like a New Hampshirite), or possibly for USFirst, but he has been around a while - I think he said something about inventing things for 30 years. (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 10, 2006, 11:35 am | Read 649 times | Comments (1)
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Microsoft Anti-Spyware / Defender

I guess Microsoft has decided they have cornered enough of the Anti-Spyware market to start charging for the tool to fix their insecure OS. Microsoft popped up a dialog offering to download the new version of the anti-spyware tools. Usually the upgrade doesn't pop-up a separate window, so I was suspicious. (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 6, 2006, 4:16 pm | Read 466 times | Comments (0)
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USA Datanet

I don't think I have written about USA Datanet on this blog. They just reminded me to tell everyone how great they are, so I will gladly do so. (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 2, 2006, 6:04 am | Read 1041 times | Comments (2)
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Hardest Sudoku Puzzle?

This is the hardest one I have ever worked on. [Update 10/24/2006: thanks to you all reading this post and posting other links, I have since found more interesting ones -- look through the comments - the one posted on October 9th appears to be pretty hard, though maybe I just made a mistake on it] When we were with my parents last weekend, we found out that my parents are big Suduko fans, and do quite a number of them during the week, in different papers, page-a-day calendars, etc.

Dad was trying to find a hard one for me, and found a "six star" one, that turned out to be not that hard - reasonably difficult, but similar to what I had seen before. We had been trading secrets of how we figure out puzzles the fastest, and he liked one of my starting first-pass rules, but then found a puzzle that using his rule, and then my rule still did not find a single number during the first pass. After that, the only step I know is to start writing down all possibilities, and it is sort of interesting to see how fast you can narrow them down, it is a little too brute force for my taste, and so I am not interested in it as much.

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Posted by jondaley on April 28, 2006, 9:21 pm | Read 14700 times | Comments (81)
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