Some letters to Santa lost?


Did you know, if you sent letters to Santa early this year (whereever your personal Santa lives) in USA, that it could be, that he never received your letter?

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Yep, infact in Detroit on October 26th some mail carrier got robbed.

Postal related crime must be big in USA, since they have a Postal Inspection Service.

Under Who We Are we learn more about them:

Explore a world of career opportunities with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

U.S. Postal Inspectors are federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction in all criminal matters involving the integrity and security of the U.S. Postal Service.

Postal Inspectors investigate criminal, civil, and administrative violations of postal-related laws, often using forensics and cutting-edge technologies. It is essential that Postal Inspectors be in sound physical condition and be capable of performing vigorous physical activities on a sustained basis.

Inspectors are required to:
Carry firearms
Make arrests
Provide testimony
Serve subpoenas
Execute search warrants
Prepare comprehensive reports
Pursue and restrain suspects
Protect themselves and others from imminent danger

Inspectors work long and irregular hours, and must be willing to relocate. Competition is intense for the relatively few U.S. Postal Inspector positions. Candidates must successfully complete all phases of the recruitment process and begin their first duty assignment prior to their 37th birthday.

You may be eligible to become a Postal Inspector if you…
Are an American citizen between the ages of 21 and 36½, and interested in an exciting and rewarding career in federal law enforcement
Possess a conferred, four-year degree from an accredited college or university
Have no felony or domestic violence convictions
Are in good physical condition
Write and speak English clearly
Are willing to relocate

Which makes it sound, like a police officer.

Like the poor Postal Inspector is faced with letter robbers that are terrorists armed with bombs, being very much shielded just to find 10 USD in an envelope or reading grandmother’s “hello letters” of his neighbours.

Luckily, I have never seen such people over here.

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ICQ’s Christmas Special


Now, ICQ put up some Christmas Special which is exactly like their recent Thanksgiving Special, except a different forum link and a link to different Christmas ecards.

However, the ecards are the same from year 2001-2004! *yawn” and the related link from Santa Deer II to Santa Deer I does not work but shows the main ICQ Friendship Cards page instead!

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visual studio & winxp64bit = crash


I actually saw on the beconfused blog, here, that Microsoft released some free Visual Studios. I thought “Great, let’s install it”. As you can see on above’s screenshot, it detects that it’s a 64bit Windows but after downloading, during the installation, the installer causes a blue screen, LOL! Microsoft’s own software doesn’t run on their own OS! 😀

The world went so dark and sad on this day…

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spyware that isn’t?

I think I found an error in the system startup list of spybot. It says this:

“Current filename: D:WINDOWSsystem32ctfmon.exe

Database status: Not required – virus, spyware, malware or other resource hog
Value: CTFMON.EXE
Filename: ctfmon32.exe

Description
_CoolWebSearch_ parasite related – hijacking to Slawsearch.com

Source: Paul Collins Startup list”

which is however – so I think- _wrong! Infact according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q282599/ it’s no virus but

“What Is the Ctfmon.exe (Ctfmon.exe) File?
Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Microsoft Office Language Bar.”

I sent an email to spybot and hope that they will give me a statement regarding this!

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Weird spam – Send A Letter From Santa Claus!

Things are getting weirder and weirder!

Normally, I don’t pay attention on spam emails, but I received spam from Santa this time, hehe.

On www.SentBySanta.com he sends your child letters!

I found it weird how some people try to make money this way. Especially despite the fact that some people like those guys offered the same some years ago FOR FREE! 😎

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ICQ 5 & System Notice


There is one feature, many people miss in ICQ5; That is the Systen Notice Container ICQ2003b had. It stored any system notice and one could check who added you, etc.

Did you know that ICQ5 stores some of those System Notice events in the message history folder? I found it out by accident, and you can see above the history of my system notice events of November. 🙂

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Still didn’t receive the replacement CPU

Seems I have a lot of bad luck with hardware lately! 🙁
 
I still didn’t receive the replacement CPU. The CPU in question seems to be getting hard to get now, which is a pain, since the CPU only kept working for 14 days and after over 1 month, the mailtrader still cannot send a new CPU! (The new motherboard I got since weeks already!).
 
I decided to call them and to request my money back by sending me a crossed cheque!
 
There are only a handful of mailtraders here that still can send it and after intensive searching yesterday, I decided to order it here. The availbility check says it’s in stock, so I hope it’s here by next Thursday! 🙂 Damned, I want my PC back working!!! 🙁
 
 
 
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