A Bloy and his Blog

I just got home from a basketball game where the Wisconsin Badger’s lost to North Dakota State. The Badgers had one of the flattest performances I’ve ever seen, with a shooting percentage of 22%. They only made 16 of 72 attempted shots.

The North Dakota State Bison, who are playing their first year as a division one team, made 50% of their field goal attempts, in a well-played upset of the nationally ranked Badgers. Wisconsin only made 16 of 72.

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Over the past few days I’ve gotten several mass-mailed advertisements to my personal email address. That email address has, for the most part, been spam free for me. It isn’t posted on the web anywhere, so spam harvesting robots can’t grab it.

Well, it turns out there is a mass-mailing e-mail worm spreading around the net, which is distributing spam to every address it can find on the infected computer. If your computer has it, you are unknowingly sending spam to everyone in your address book.

Please folks, use anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. Make sure to keep them up-to-date. Keep your software up-to-date as well. Those of us in your email address book will be grateful.

So my stereo receiver was suffering the effects of old age, I had some Christmas money in my pocket, and it was time for a new one. After browsing some online product reviews, I had a some specific models to look for. I went to a few electronics stores and found one of the recommended receivers, at a good price. I brought it home and begun the monumental task of unplugging all the components, speakers, antennas, from my old receiver and plugging them in the new one.

I got to the cassette deck. There are a lot of places to plug things in to the back of my new receiver, but where were the ones for the tape deck? There were none. The receiver had no input or output receptacles for a tape deck. That was something I needed to look for while I was shopping??

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I’m a sucker for good flash animations and my mother always taught me to share. So, here’s one featuring a wise wombat that was passed along to me today.

Follow the wisdom from the wombat. It’s really a simple concept. Not hard at all, if everyone does it.

Or would you rather be doomed?

From the website, Cohousing.org:

Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is no sense of community.

An interesting concept. In the Madison news yesterday there was a story about the beginning stages of a cohousing development, Aboretum Cohousing. In addition to all of the principles of cohousing, the people in charge of this development are also striving for affordability and to be very environmentally conscious.

Even more interesting to me is this cohousing community will be located about ten or twelve blocks from where I work.

Hmmm…

Happy New Year! The start of a new year causes a lot of people to look ahead, and make their resolutions for the year. I’ve never been one to make new year’s resolutions. If there’s something I feel I should or should not be doing, I usually don’t wait until January 1st to make those changes or adjustments.

However, the small heart attack my father had recently (he’s doing very well now, thank you) has cause me to think a bit about exercise — specifically in the winter.

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