With my new music project picking up speed, I've been trying to cover all the bases and find ways to get the word out and share this with as many people as possible. I've known for a while now that one of the best places to get a little exposure is the vast wasteland known as MySpace.

I considered creating an account there a while back, before it was really in the mainstream. You know, back when it was still a semi-unknown thing. But then when Dateline and every other news show started doing exposés on the kid touchers housed there, I had second thoughts. And by that, I mean that I knew it wasn't for me.

Now that's it's become ubiquitous to the point of me hearing waitresses in restaurants mentioning it and TV shows using it to blur the lines of reality, I said to my self, "What the hell...there might actually be something to gain from it." Obviously something's happening to draw so many people to it, and maybe I was just missing out. Suddenly, I felt the allure of it...I admit it. Damn!

With the release of Firefox 1.5, I had only one thing keeping me from upgrading--the Bookmarks Synchronizer extension. Stuck at version 1.0.1, it wasn't compatible with the new Firefox, and since I had come to depend on this extension to get my bookmarks back and forth between home and work, I figured I'd have to wait around for an update.

But I didn't want to wait around, so I started looking into alternatives. I couldn't find any extension that had the same features, but then I thought about services like del.icio.us and others. The problem I've always had with online services is that they're online. And really, it's not even that they're online, but that they're shared. I'd much rather have my online bookmarks on my own server, where I know they'll be kept safe and sound.

I signed up for Blockbuster Online a little over a week ago. Nearly a year ago, I had tried Netflix for a few months and really liked it. I had even tried the now-defunct Wal-Mart DVD rental service for comparison. But it was all getting to the point where I had seen all I wanted to see. My queue was starting to get empty and stay empty. So I took a break.

But after the last ten months or so of going back and forth to stores and the hassle of due dates and whatnot, I decided it was time to give Blockbuster a try. They’d made such big deal of “no more late fees” and started pushing their online service as an affordable alternative, I figured they’d at least match Netflix’ quality of service, if not selection and responsiveness.

However, in setting up my account, I immediately encountered a problem. When logging in to their site, I received an notification that the security certificate could not be verified. If you’ve done any sort of transaction online, you can probably guess that you’re already at risk of exposing your information while it’s in transit, but this sort of message just throws up a red flag.

Spam.

It's one of those things that just seems like part of life now, and I'm not talking about processed meat. It's gotten to the point where I receive...um, let me see... Look! I've got 79 e-mails just this morning! And it's only around 8am!

Oh, but surely there must be some legitimate messages in there, right? Nope. Not one.

But today marks a change. A change that I've been contemplating for some time now. I'm getting rid of my old address in favor of something new. I've had my current address "robert (a) attack22.com" for almost five years now, as long as this site's been up. But every year, the spam just piles on.

NO MORE I SAY! YOU DAMN, DIRTY SPAMMERS!

British Telecom claims that it owns a patent on hyperlink technology, which, as most of us probably know by now, is essentially what makes the World Wide Web work.

So, in trying to pry licensing fees from ISPs all over the U.S. (because the patents have expired in other applicable countries), British Telecom, or BT, has apparently decided to sue Prodigy after being repeatedly laughed at and thrown the finger.