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Site Seeing
By JULES ALLEN Feel free to browse Elgoogwww.AllTooFlat.com/geeky/elgoog/ A mirror site, for those not steeped in Internet jargon, is an exact copy of a site's content but hosted away from the primary server. So if the main site is unreachable, one can use the mirror. Technology projects do this all the time as Webmasters do silly things such as play Quake on their Web servers and drain the living daylights out of the CPU. So when I got a note that somebody had mirrored Google, I was intrigued. While it's not April 1, this joke site is well done and entertaining -- at least for five minutes. I see candyAnnoying techno music kickoff aside, this is one of the best Flash cartoons I've seen. The animation is almost Saturday morning quality, which would require you to consume a couple of bowls of cereal while watching it. I'm not sure if it was just me but the animation seemed to get tighter as the cartoon went on. The start lagged a little, then the Flash-wranglers seemed to get their groove. Legal laughs (really)You've heard those annoying radio commercials where the theme is to demand total honesty from a situation? Of course, I can't remember the product they are hawking. But I think that's either a common problem with overbearing radio commercials or just common when you get to my age. So, imagine stumbling over a site written by a bunch of lawyers that contain phrases such as "underhanded wimps who use their command of legal gobbledygook to scam money from the unsuspecting" and "many people believe that litigation lawyers are the reason all lawyers are held in such low esteem by the public." The intro page is a riot. If I ever get sued in Colorado, I know who's going on retainer. Up to your ears in spam?wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53617,00.html Spam, the unwanted junk mail and not the canned meat, is a common problem for anybody who has ever entered an e-mail address into a form on a Web site. With the advent of free e-mail accounts on Hotmail, Yahoo and so forth, you'd think that creating a second spam-magnet account would be first nature to all. Not so. Take the time to read this highly informative article on why the volume of spam is going up and why, once your address is on a list, it's impossible to be removed. Personally, I think I'm going to take the whitelist route. If I don't know you, you can't send me mail. Word, Excel for lessMicrosoft makes a Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewer available to Windows users on their site. If somebody e-mails you a document that ends in .doc and you're in the minority of Windows users who doesn't have Microsoft Office, you can look at the goodies without being able to modify said goodies. If you're on a Mac, you're out of luck. Unless you buy Office X or spend a tenth of the price on the icWord and icExcel combo. For $30, you can crack open spreadsheets and documents with wild abandon. These utilities opened just about anything I threw at them. There's a free 30-day trial of both utilities begging for download at either of the addresses.
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