Sick of spyware? After cleaning at least 3 of my friend's and family's computers, I certainly am. After cleaning out their computers, I went ahead and installed Firefox for them. Firefox is a new and cool browser that will not infect you with spyware. Internet Explorer is a major culprit for spyware infections. They also came out with a new email client called Thunderbird.
"Under the terms of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act passed last year, amid growing concerns over privacy and disclosure of sensitive financial data, the three leading credit reporting agencies must provide consumers with a free summary once a year of all credit information on file for that person."
My yearly promotion DSL rate of $26.95 exired this month :( So I called SBC to try to get a better rate or else I was going to switch to Comcast. But before I threatened, the SBC representative said that I can be "rerated" at the current promotion of $26.95 if I commit to another year. But he also told me that in order to get that rate, I would have to add some phone calling features to my current plan, otherwise it would be $30/month. So I decided not to add any features and accept the $30/month. The next day, it occured to me that it didnt make sense that I was not given the $26.95 rate. So I made another call to SBC. I told her what the other representative told me and she just went ahead and changed it back to $26.95. She told me that after 12 months the price will go back to the regular rate of $49.99, unless I call back again. So I guess Ill be calling them every year so I can always get the promotional rate. Weird eh?
Went to a Point of Grace concert this past Sunday. Great concert as always. They are so nice, they always stay behind to sign autographs and take pictures.
Picture taken at 8 weeks, 5 days. Due April 27, 2005. Stayed tuned for "Our Baby" section on my site which will include pictures, news, video, guestbook and more.
Did you know that you can use AIM to text message people's cell phones? Usually, you would use a site like vtext.com (for verizon) or you would use your email client to email a text message. But using AIM makes it simple and easy. The cool thing is that if the receiver replies to the text message with their phone, you will be AIMed back!
All you have to do is specify "+1" before the areacode and phone number in the To: field. ie. "+14156812324"
I just got back from my job interview in Seattle. J/K. Stacie had a business trip in Seattle and an Optometry convention in Las Vegas so I decided to tag along with her.
Google aquired Picasa which is a digital software program. I must say, Im impressed with this software. If I knew it was this good, I would have paid for it. With Picasa, you can manage your photos, edit, make web albums and much more. I liked it so much, that I've converted all of my web albums. Ive also added my baby pics web album.
Google is launching its free 1GB email service called GMAIL. Yes, 1GB of space which is a 1000MB. Hotmail's limit is 2MB and Yahoo's is 4MB. Yet Yahoo, is going to increase to 100MB to compete. Gmail is only in beta right now and by invite only. Only current beta members can invite. Let me know if you want me to invite you. I have only 5 more invites left. Wow, they are even selling these invites on ebay. I cant wait to get off hotmail!
There is a nasty virus out there called the "Sasser" virus. The thing that makes this virus so nasty is because you dont have to do anything to get infected. Make sure you download the latest windows update and protect your computer. I found some good tips to protect your computer.
Stacie suprised me for my 28th birthday to a trip to New York. She surpised me at the airport when I thought we were driving one of her friends to the airport. I've posted the pics.