I stood beside the coffin, looking, staring at the corpse. An untimely demise of a friend’s wife. Nothing we can do but pray for her soul, and for the family she left behind. Here’s to Cindy, a loving wife, mother and friend. Peace and freedom, at last.
The worm spreads via Microsoft’s MSN Messenger instant-messaging service and affects computers running Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
When it hits an English system, the worm sends out the following message: “haha i found your picture!” The message is sent to everybody on a user’s contacts list. If a user clicks on a link included with the message, a copy of the W32.Spyboot worm is automatically downloaded to their computer.
Click here to read from source…
Time to look for a new Operating System. 
After watching an extremely attractive maternity-ward patient earnestly thumbing her way through a telephone directory for several minutes, a hospital orderly finally asked if he could be of some help.
“No, thanks,” smiled the young mother, “I’m just looking for a name for my baby.”
“But the hospital supplies a special booklet that lists hundreds of first names and their meanings,” said the orderly.
“That won’t help,” said the woman, “my baby already has a first name.”
Google, Inc. has finally entered the IM arena with their own instant messaging client, Google Talk. It uses Jabber/XMPP technology and allows other IM clients (e.g. GAIM, Trillian, etc.) for non-Windows OS’s to connect to its service. It features instant messaging thru chat, just like all the other IM clients. However, you can use Google Talk to call a person who also has it installed. Here’s the downside: you must have a GMail account to be able to use it because it is still in Beta. Personally, I don’t think it’s a downside. I mean, who DOESN’T have a GMail account.
The question is: why would someone switch IM clients? Is it better? Yahoo’s Messenger has calling options too. So what’s the point of having Google Talk?
Google’s answers:
# Choice: Get in touch how and when you want to??”over email, IM or a call
# Quality: Talk through your computer but hear your friends as if they were in the same room
# Convenience: Your GMail contacts are pre-loaded into Google Talk so inviting or talking to your friends is just a click away
I don’t really care what features they put in there. I’d try it anyway. Anyway, here’s a suggestion for Google‘s next project. How about free blog hosting? They can call it “GBlog,” or “Bloggle,” or “Bloogle.” Whatever it is, I’m sure I’ll be trying it out also.
Roads are salted in order to
a) kill grass.
b) melt snow.
c) help the economy.
d) prevent potholes.
The correct answer is c.
Road salting employs thousands of persons directly, and millions more indirectly, for example, salt miners and rustproofers. Most important, salting reduces the life spans of cars, thus stimulating the car and steel industries.
She stares at the screen, watching, waiting for me to post something sensible here in this blog. Unfortunately, Love never made any sense. Too bad.
Love you, Grace F. Perez. 
An older student came to Otis and said, “I have been to see a great number of teachers and I have given up a great number of pleasures. I have fasted, been celibate and stayed awake nights seeking enlightenment. I have given up everything I was asked to give up and I have suffered, but I have not been enlightened. What should I do?”
Otis replied, “Give up suffering.”
– Camden Benares
10. Not everybody looks good naked.
9. Joe Garagiola was a hell of an emcee.
8. Joe Cocker really should stick with decaffeinated coffee.
7. Fringe! Fringe! Fringe!
6. If you’ve got 72 hours to kill, you can probably find room for Sha Na Na.
5. Never attend an event with a 50,000 to 1 person to Port-A-San ratio.
4. Bellbottoms will never go out of style.
3. A drum solo cannot be too long.
2. I, David Letterman, will never rent out my farm again.
1. We are stardust. We are golden. We are going to look really stupid to future generations.
– David Letterman
A traffic light at an intersection changes from yellow to red, you should
a) stop immediately.
b) proceed slowly through the intersection.
c) blow the horn.
d) floor it.
The correct answer is d.
If you said c, you were almost right, so give yourself a half point.
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