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Just some words to reflect on:

Brian — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:21:48 +0000

“We cannot change the past,
but we can change our attitude toward it.
Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness.
Tear out arrogance and seed humility.
Exchange love for hate — thereby,
making the present comfortable and the future promising…”

World’s Most Expensive Cities, 2007 : Can you Afford It?

Brian — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:49:20 +0000

The survey measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location,

including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods, and entertainment.

Produced by Mercer, a global human resources and financial consulting firm, the survey is used to help multinational companies and governments determine compensation allowances for their expatriate employees.

1 Moscow, Russia
2 London, United Kingdom
3 Seoul, South Korea
4 Tokyo, Japan
5 Hong Kong, Hong Kong
6 Copenhagen, Denmark
7 Geneva, Switzerland
8 Osaka, Japan
9 Zurich, Switzerland
10 Oslo, Norway
11 Milan, Italy
12 St. Petersburg, Russia
13 Paris, France
14 Singapore, Singapore
15 New York City, United States
16 Dublin, Ireland
17 Tel Aviv, Israel
18 Rome, Italy
19 Vienna, Austria
20 Beijing, China
21 Sydney, Australia
22 Helsinki, Finland
23 Stockholm, Sweden
24 Douala, Cameroon
25 Amsterdam, Netherlands
26 Madrid, Spain
26 Shanghai, China
28 Kiev, Ukraine
29 Athens, Greece
30 Almaty, Kazakhstan
31 Barcelona, Spain
31 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
33 Dakar, Senegal
34 Dubai, United Arab Emirates
35 Abidjan, C

Its Gone! Stupid Malware

Brian — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:15:04 +0000

Finally after weeks of battling and scanning and working in safe mode, and tweaking the registry KEYS and using lots of .executables build and linked to by the one they call Stamper19 on GeeksToGo.com

Still dickering with this friggin Malware. Seems The Vundo has returned and now I’m gonna

Brian — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:30:02 +0000

Seems The Vundo has returned and now I’m gonna kill it off with something called KillBox.exe.

Seems I wasn’t so clean before. Feeling kind of scumy , but will be clean!

Give me A clean PC or give me the head of the @ss who built this crap that will not go away.

Those guys at GeeksToGo are still helping me! how cool is that. Free help. May the Gods always smile on those that are policing our Internet (in a good way of course) and doing free of charge….updates to come

Do you uTorrent?

Brian — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:12:46 +0000

The web has it perks when you go looking for information, but the entertainment industry has got a beast on its hand when Average Joe sets off to finding media. FREE!
Seem you can find just about any TV show, Movie, Music File and more just using a simple pieces of software and a well feed website that has millions of users lached onto it. Yes they are “latched” onto a torrent-site complete with open ports and terrabytes of media. Different sites use different names for those who are latched on. Seems pretty common to see those providing the streams of media labled “Seedlings or Seeders” and those that are pulling the media off the seeders are called Leechers or Peers. Now that you know it can be done (scraping media from all over the web to your hardrive) How do you do it?

I didn’t know which client to download, seems everyone but me is already wise to this technology, and what would be a good site to search for torrents on and what will I need to use to play the Torrents…. I consulted with a friend about what he uses. He is really into this stuff and always had a few fun URLs to share about where to find good free media outside of the normal channels like abc.com, nbc.com cnn.com and the like.

My friend sends me over to Utorrent.com to dowload their client. This is the software you will need to download the torrent file format and then he said not to bother with going to individual torrent provider sites and use a mega Torrent Searc site instead. Well, who am I to not take his advice. So i plugged in the URL into me addressbar and clicked “GO”That Torrent Search site is aptly named TorrentScan

Lastly you will a player that can read the torrent file format. Just do a search for I found the vlc-0.8.6a-win32 to work great for my PC. Just do a search for it “vlc-0.8.6a-win32″

Who knew that “player” was so cool…

Brian — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:23:56 +0000

I use several media players, that are installed on my PC when I am at my desk, but just a little while ago I was clicking from software to software windows and I hit the Windows Media Player Window by mistake.Well, it pop-upped, looked like it always does, but this time I noticed that down in the lower left hand corner it was scrolling/blinking various bits of information at me about the music. I was curious so I stared at my screen to see what it was going to tell me about what was playing.

It told me the Name of the Band/Artist, Album, Song Name, and the composer of the song. Now that is pretty cool. I never noticed that before….hmmm, looks like there is far more information that is put on that CD before I burned it to my hard drive that I really ever gave much thought to. But who ever though that that WMP 11 (and those makeing the MASTER CD) would give listeners such details. Tapes never did that..haha.

ohh by the way, in case you were wondering, it was Dead Can Dance, Toward the Within, Flute Solo for Peace, Composed by Robert Perry.