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Finally had the opportunity to get an invitation to receive a Gmail account!

So I will post more as I learn about the system. Looks cool so far.
Should be interesting to learn how it works. 1GB of space for mail;
having a search engine to manipulate your email to find things

Gmail is a beta web based email system that Google is working on. I’ll
post more later.

Copied from “Wikipedia”

eBay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar as “AuctionWeb”, part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar’s own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. The site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar’s consulting firm. He had tried to register the domain name “EchoBay.com” but found it already taken, so he shortened it to his second choice, “eBay.com”.

eBay is headquartered in San Jose, California.”

Please see the entire entry at the following eBay entry at the Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia.

Saw Clay Aiken in Greensboro Friday night, it was a great concert. Cherie, a starting French singer, started the show and got everybody reved up for Clay. She was much better, than the group Clay had starting for him in the Independent tour. I cannot even remember their name. I wish “Cherie” the best. I believe her first album comes out August 3rd.

My wife and I, stood around in hopes that Clay would make an appearance after the show outside his tour bus. We saw folks moving equipment from one bus to another. Then the food was delivered, some deli sandwiches and boxes of chicken from Bojangles! We patiently waited.

Jacob the sax player, stepped out and we shouted “hello”. A few folks ran over and talked to him. Cherie ran into the bus they were emptying, we asked her to come over to the fence and she signed a few autographs and shook hands. Then we heard the fans go crazy at another gate.

Clay made an exit from the Bus and went to one gate to say hello; and then came to the fence were we were at. We could see him approach his with his personal body guard and a few of the Greensboro event staff. He came towards the end of the fence I was at, and shook my hand and thank us for waiting and coming to the show and went down the line. The man was in his “PJs” and what looked like flip-flops!

Clay amazes me how “common” of a man he is. I hope he stays common, as he continues with his success. So many foks let fame an fortune ruin their live, I believe he has done so well. I wish him the best in his future. I hope I will have future opportunities for myself and my family to cross his path in the future.

Read the following article to find out what happen to the Taco Bell dog.

Snopes is a wonderful site to learn about false postings on the internet. You may be interested in bookmarking it, for researching any questionable emails you receive.

After many attempts, I finally got my mailman installation upgraded.

../configure –with-mail-gid=postfix –with-cgi-gid=nobody

Somehow, I got my mailman processes running as nobody instead of mailman

mailman processes must be run as mailman

so once things were restarted correctly with the correct gid’s my lists
started
processing correctly.

Today, I was finally able to buy some “skins” from a BBQ place today after a few missed opportunities. They seem to sell out really fast; they make them in the morning and soon after noon they are sold out. I was out for lunch, a rare event and dropped in after finishing my lunch at a different place. They had two bags left and I bought both of them.

My wife loves the things, so I figured I would get too bags — so I would be sure to get a few pieces out of one the two bags

I decided to take them into the office, since it was so hot. What a mistake. For about 3 hours, I had to listen to the multiple peers bicker about the smell of the “skins” ; Is that “tuna” I smell. etc. etc.

Guess, some folks just don’t know what a good snack is!! Even after, all the heckling — I left the “skins”, and had to drive back to get them Wouldn’t have been funny if I left them there the entire weekend!

No worries, I will not be bringing any more food into my office … next time I have any good food I’ll just keep it to myself. (Next time it will be Turtle Cheesecake)

Having a bad day?? There was a case in one hospital’s Intensive Care ward where patients always died in the same bed, on Sunday morning, at about 11 a.m., regardless of their medical condition.

This puzzled the doctors and some even thought that it had something to do with the supernatural. No one could solve the mystery as to why the deaths occurred around 11 a.m. on Sundays.

So, a world-wide team of experts was assembled to investigate the cause of the incidents: The next Sunday morning, a few minutes before 11 a.m., all doctors and nurses nervously waited outside the ward to see for
themselves what the terrible phenomenon was all about.

Some were holding wooden crosses, prayer books, and other holy objects to ward off the evil spirits. Just when the clock struck 11—Pookie Johnson, the part-time Sunday sweeper, entered the ward and unplugged
the life support so that he could use the vacuum cleaner.

Still having a Bad Day? The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000 {each}. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released
back into the wild, amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

Still think you are having a bad day? A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric
kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

And you STILL think you’re having a bad day? Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn, Germany. Suddenly, all two thousand pigs broke
loose and escaped through a broken fence, stampeding madly. The two hopeless protesters were trampled to death.

What?! STILL having a bad day? Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with “Return To Sender” stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb, he opened it and
was blown to bits.

There now, feeling better?

Credits: This is from an email forwarded to me by Ken Jenkins
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Blessed (aka RejiMC) Network Administrator.

An interesting review of why OpenBSD is liked so much

Review of OpenBSD

The Cumberland County Library links to Tumblebooks from their children section.

I try to take my daughter to the library regularly to checkout books, and use their educational software on their computers.

We also partcipate in their summer reading programs for the children. Although my daughter is not yet reading on her own, parents can read, and list the books for the child and could towards rewards for the child in the program in Cumberland county.