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New pictures are up.  Added were Company Paintball and Fall Retreat.

Enjoy!

During the summer, specifically in the month of May, I obtain my free annual credit report from all three credit bureaus.  Everyone is entitled to a free copy of their credit history every year or when you are denied credit.  This is a great thing to do since identity theft continues to rise.

However, some companies (particularly credit card companies) offer you a "free" credit report.  The report only comes after you sign up for some sort of credit watching service, which can be anywhere from a few bucks a month to a percentage of your balance.  Be alert!  The credit report can be obtained directly from the bureaus’ websites.  Congress recently amended the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act that allows you to have all three agencies give you a free credit report from on one web site.  This website is http://www.annualcreditreport.com.  Do not be fooled by imitations (e.g. http://www.freecreditreport.com).  annualcreditreport.com is the only official website promoted by the FTC.

While the credit history is free, your credit score (the numerical value you are scored and are judged on) costs extra.  I would recommend getting this every couple of years.  I’m doing mine this year.

So be cautious web user.  Your credit will thank you.

The site looks like it did before!  Feel free to look around.  If something stops working, let me know.

You may noticed a starking difference on my web site.  Yes, I’m the process of upgrading my site…several weeks late.

Don’t fret!  I’m hoping to have everything finished today. 

This is a global e-mail announcement.

As a result of getting so much spam a day (over 300 in fact), I will no longer be sorting through my spam folder. Any e-mails that get flagged as spam will now be automatically deleted without warning. While this may affect a minority of people that send me e-mail, I feel that the number of spam I receive and the havoc that it creates on my server outweighs the one or two e-mails that sometimes end up in my spam folder as a false positive.

You may fall into the category of affective people if you e-mail from yahoo.com, hotmail.com, or other popular web-based e-mails (gmail, for now, seems unaffected). If you are e-mailing me from one of these providers, you may prepend your subjects with "[NOT SPAM]".

If you get a reply, it means that I’ve added you to my whitelist and will no longer have to prepend your messages.

Sorry for the inconvenience folks.

I’ll be updating the site this Thursday so parts of the site will be down.

Things should be up and running by Friday.

Yes, it took me a long time. But they are finally up!

Check them out!

Greasemonkey is perhaps one of the most powerful Firefox extentions. It allows end-users to manipulate web sites in ways to make browsing them easier. userscripts has an unending supply of scripts that can be installed to make life a little easier. And I must say, I love the facebook scripts. I currently have eight scripts, two of them I wrote myself. I highly recommend any facebook user who has Firefox to download them!

After many years of avoiding it, I finally caved and created a Facebook profile. There are many things I can say that changed my mind on the issue. The primary reason is probably because so many college students use it as a form of communication. Being a “friend” on facebook is important.

I’ve also revitalized my AIM-screen name. I am not publishing it publically so feel free to e-mail me about it, if you don’t know it.

I’ve opened up comments on this blog entry. I’m wondering how many people would be interested if I opened up comments on my blog.

I initially turned them off by default because there was no way to screen them. However, I think the at this point, I’d like to give people a chance to respond. The rules would be the same as my livejournal blog:

• All comments must be signed!!! Any unsigned entries will get deleted.
• Absolutely no profanity.
• Comments cannot go off-topic.

Let me know what you guys think