{"id":12,"date":"2003-03-13T13:33:05","date_gmt":"2003-03-13T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2003-03-13T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2003-03-13T18:33:05","slug":"geek-newz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/13\/geek-newz\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Newz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" alt=\"microsoft.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/archives\/microsoft.gif\" width=\"112\" height=\"40\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nFor those of you who use MSN Messenger and have installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/messenger.msn.com\/download\/addin.asp\">MSN Add-on <\/a>for instant Hotmail access, you might wanna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iamsleeping.net\/noads\/index.html\">check this out <\/a>so you can get rid of those pesky ads on the bottom. <\/p>\n<p>Since we&#8217;re already talking about Microsoft, I thought I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=228001\">throw this into mix<\/a>.  It seems that they know that network adapters don&#8217;t work when the cable is unplugged &#8211; profound.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, my company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/index.php\">Rackspace Managed Hosting <\/a>was in the local paper&#8230; its not much of a paper, but its a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mysanantonio.com\/story.cfm?xla=saen&#038;xlb=110&#038;xlc=959703&#038;xld=110\">great fluff article <\/a>about us.<\/p>\n<p>OOOH!  And there seems to be a proliferation of idiot spammers using the MS messaging service to pop up windows on your desktop to send you some great offer&#8230; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mynetwatchman.com\/kb\/security\/articles\/popupspam\/index.htm\">go here to learn <\/a>how to turn it off.  If you want to complain to the company who builds the software go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.directadvertiser.com\">check out their website here <\/a>and drop them a line.<\/p>\n<p>Office distractions?  Sure!  Go get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.razor.com\/airgo.htm\">Razor Air-go<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/archives\/pogo.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/archives\/pogo.html','popup','width=320,height=240,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\">great fun around the office<\/a> &#8211; assuming you don&#8217;t face plant into a wall. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who use MSN Messenger and have installed the MSN Add-on for instant Hotmail access, you might wanna check this out so you can get rid of those pesky ads on the bottom. Since we&#8217;re already talking about Microsoft, I thought I&#8217;d throw this into mix. It seems that they know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}