It's amazing what gets published in college papers sometimes. :)

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!

(Not work-safe, not for the faint of heart or the asexual.)

Quite a good book

Just finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers. Very good, very entertaining, often very tongue-in-cheek. I'd recommend it to you. Yes, you!

I could describe what idiosyncrasies I liked about it that led me to this recommendation, but I think you should find out for yourself. Be prepared, though, for some very non-standard writing. :)

Real life vs. "Real life"

Incidentally, I see a lot of similarity between Dave Eggers's writing style in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Erin's. Semi-random, but with a point, power and presence behind it. :)

Ok, what's up with this spam?

I (and at least one other person) have been getting an obnoxious new form of spam lately.. always-on-top popups like ( this one. )

Possible suspect programs include AOL, AIM; possible suspect website includes CNN.com but not livejournal.com, conversatron.com, or my comics page. Ad-Aware finds nothing unexpected, Norton AntiVirus finds nothing. Anyone seen these before and have any idea about their source?

(I know MSN Messenger was still installed earlier, and would start whenever I visited Hotmail--and not allow itself to be closed until I closed all IE windows--so I removed it; I don't know if this is related. Seems unlikely, as I'm not at any MS websites when these things show.)

Update: The fault lies in the Windows Messenger Service (which can be disabled), displaying NET SEND messages. More explanation here by alacrity. :)