I wish I were still 8

I just got back from a preview weekend at Truett Seminary in Waco Texas. I had a real good time and I think that I got a real good idea of what Truett is like. The aspect that appealed to me the most was the community that I saw between the students and faculty. In fact I liked just about everything about the place. The only thing that I don't like about Truett is that it is very far from my family in Atlanta. For some reason I think I am scared to be that far away from my family, though I am not sure about this. I might feel scared because I am graduating from college and know that I have to grow up. I ask myself if I were to goto Beeson in Birmingham would I be scared and I honestly don't know. The fact that Waco is so far away from Atlanta I may see that I will have to grow up faster than I would in Birmingham. I hope I figure this out soon.

I was spammed, and it hurt

About a year ago my school started to use GWGuardian to block spam and viruses. Since this time the spam I receive has doubled in size. Why? Before GWGuardian I would receive maybe 10 spam emails a month, now I get 20 a day. Before GWGuardian Mail would just put my spam in the spam folder and everything was fine. Now I receive a list of all my spam every day, basically a spam email that is a list full of spam. I would just use Mail to make this email spam but GWGuardian blocks so much important email that I am forced to check it every day. So I sent the postmaster a little email. Here it is.

Subject: GWGuardian=worthless
What is wrong with GWGuardian, this is the worst spam blocker I think I have ever seen. Nothing works on the application. If I add someone to my blocked list nothing happens I still receive messages from the spammer. And like wise I have sent mail to myself and GWGuardian blocks it so I add myself to my Friendly list the emails still fail to reach me. This is unacceptable as there are many other applications that actually do block spam.

Three days later I receive this email from the postmaster.

You can come by the office at any time to discuss GWGuardian and find out what has been going on. My office is located under the cafeteria, down the hall from the BSU.

I was like come by your office so I can tell you what I just told you, and you can say we have been working hard on this stuff. Ok sure. Later the same day I receive 5 more emails from him within 20 minutes of each other.

Email 1: You can come by the office at any time to discuss GWGuardian and find out what has been going on. My office is located under the cafeteria, down the hall from the BSU.

If you prefer, we can exclude your name from the GWGuardian server and you can deal with your spam messages as you would like.

Thanks,

My grateful response: That would be great if you could exclude my name from GWGuardian and allow me to deal with my spam messages myself. Thank you very much.

Then I receive the next 4 emails all within a few minutes.

Email 2:This will be taken care of. In the future, please have all the information before sending childish emails.

Thanks,

Email 3:Please keep in mind that the virus scanning will continue. I will not cut that off.

Email 4:Please keep in mind that the virus scanning will continue. I will not cut that off.

I will release all currently held spam as well from this system.

Email 5:So when can we schedule a time for you to come by and talk about these problems?

Thanks,

He called my email childish. Then went on to spam me with back to back emails that should all have been in his third email. Is that not childish? I was not personal attacking him when I sent my first email I was just explaining that GWGuardian is worthless. Sometimes I just don't understand people, I mean the way he responded to me does not seem very professional, does he respond to everyone like he responded to me? If so I can only fell sorry for him.

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I didn't even expect it

This weekend I went to Hp40 to do some climbing after more than a month off. I first hit up a few routes that I had worked on last time I was there, mostly V2s, one of which was Dope. Dope is a very short route with a horrible top of slopers. When I we got around to Dope some people where on it so I threw down my pad right by Mum Boy a V4. I had no expectation of even doing a few of the moves on it, I was just waiting for Dope to open up so I could conquer what had abused me on my last visit. Well the guys on Dope notice me watching them and asked if I wanted to try it so I did and topped out on my first try. So I went back to Mum Boy which by now they were climbing too. After I saw a few of their attempts on it I gave it a try. On my fourth try I knew that I could get it the next time so I chalked up and went for it. I hit the first sloper and immediately grabbed the next, I knew then that I had it and just walked my feet up and stood on top of the beautiful rock. It was a great feeling, and an incentive to continue to push myself and to climb on!

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Bleezer

I just found Bleezer, a free blogging client from FreeMacWare and I am using it right now. I have only just begun to play with this little app but so far I really like it. The best thing about it is that I don't have to worry with a browser to publish posts anymore and that it very convenient. A very useful feature that Bleezer has for those of you who use free blogging sites and don't know any HTML is that Bleezer has some built in HTML tools. Bleezer also has formatting and tagging capabilities along with a spell checker. I have run across a few minor problems but nothing that would make me stop using this great little app.

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Blue Light Special

I ran across this very interesting article over at ABC News. Apparently we are affected by different colors of light, in different ways. They claim research shows that blue light improves our awareness. They also say that incorrect use of blue light can be harmful, so don’t go out and change all the lights in your house over night. While research has only been done on green and blue light thus far I can only hope that further research will show that other light colors also hold many benefits waiting for our discovery.

Almost April 1st

Over at theappleblog, my favorite blog for all things mac, I came across this post by Josh. Usually a post like this would be an elaborate prank by Josh to fool some easily duped readers into believing an elaborate tale of Apple’s genius that has not really come about yet. I am sure in exactly two months we will again see some of Josh’s genius but for now this is just a mistake made buy some at Best Buy.