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Spend, Spend, Spend! I’m my own economic boom, baby!
Lincoln Adams | July 27, 2009 @ 9:46 pmI’ve been going on a spending spree ever since paying off the last of my debt earlier this month, but don’t worry, most of it has been for necessities such as work shoes, which literally had gaping holes in them and were over 2 years old (you could see my toe-sies!) And believe me, you don’t even wanna know what state my underwear were in. 
Thankfully though, I am no longer a tighty whitey dude.
I also threw down for some chick magnetizing sunglasses and FINALLY settled on a brand new watch as well, getting ever so closer to checking off all the items on my wishlist and becoming … *clears throat* … the ULTIMATE Blogging Badass. 
I do all this, of course, with the full knowledge that the current economy quite plainly sucks flaming donkey balls (while the democrats in Congress continue to serve up a fresh batch of them by the day.) I realize a lot of people are hurting out there, so when I go on about buying some nice, shiny new toys (and manly looking boxer-briefs) while people are out there suffering from all sorts of financial distress, I do feel bad about it…. for a minute or two.
The reason I don’t feel TOO bad about it is because I remember the days when the economy was boom stomping and people were going half mad buying up tech stocks or purchasing ridiculously sized homes they couldn’t afford, while I could only watch with wonder and dismay, unemployed and eventually even homeless.
Yep, there was a time when I was actually homeless, evicted by a demon possessed relative who literally poisoned my beloved cat. I guess this Nazi loving moochbag couldn’t find a Jew to gas, so he went for my cat instead. Fun times!
I remember that all happened in 2000 too, during what was supposed to be the year of jubilee. All the churches in my area just kept going on and on about the year of jubilee, and how it was going to be a time of unparalleled blessings and prosperity and bountiful harvests and God only knows what else, none of which incidentally enough, I ever experienced. Instead, it was just one traumatic loss after another. Loss of inheritances. Loss of homes. Loss of security. Loss of family. I think if you were to collectively take everything that had been lost by either me or my family, it would literally amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The magnitude of what we had lost or stolen from us amazes me even today. All during a time of economic prosperity and growth too.
In a way, I see these modest splurges as a way to regain some of what I had lost after ten years of plague and darkness. To find myself in a secure job, debt free, with money to invest and a blog that brings me a decent second income during a time of economic distress and imminent calamity has to be the ultimate height of irony. This is the LORD’s doing, and it is marvelous before our eyes.
I find myself in a transitional phase now, with one shackle after another slowly falling off until one day I am going to find myself completely independent, and completely free. Knowing that day is not too far off now, I wonder to myself, What will I do with this newfound freedom? What will I do with the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) that I’ve been given?
I certainly can’t hoard it to myself, nor do I want to. A free man can set others free, and I want to take what is mine, and give it to those in need. I know what it’s like to lose everything. I know what it’s like to suffer. But I also know that a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things he possesses. We have been told by our society that a man is nothing if he doesn’t have a house or land, and we are now paying the price for that fallacy. Truth be told, of all the things that had been stolen from me, including a home, I never really wanted any of it anyway, nor did it bother me all that much to lose it. It was the concept that someone had taken something from me through the most despicable and evil means (and had gotten away with it) that bothered me, and more than bothered me, it enraged me. It wasn’t justice. Why did God reward evil with good? It’s something I still struggle with even today, even as I watch the tide gradually turn in my favor.
As angry as I am about the past, I never want to do to others what had been done to me. It’s my desire to alleviate the burdens of the innocent, not add to them. But in what capacity I could realize these desires, I don’t know. That chapter has yet to be played out.
I do know I want to save the world, one innocent person at a time. And I hope one day I can do so… while wearing comfortable boxer-briefs and looking cool in my chick magnetizing shades. 
Tags: blessings, church, darkness, economy, financial, freedom, homeless, independent, justice, money, plague, rage, security, spending spree, wishlist, year of jubilee
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Loading ...Ok, I made that last part up, but I really hope it’s true. 
Michelle Malkin gets the story behind the hack, and it is absolutely fascinating (and frightening at the same) time, to say the least.
The offending alleged hacker was a guy called rubico, and he wrote to an anonymous board that was ground zero for this madness, explaining his actions and how he did it:
In the past couple days news had come to light about palin using a yahoo mail account, it was in news stories and such, a thread was started full of newf&*s trying to do something that would not get this off the ground, for the next 2 hours the acct was locked from password recovery presumably from all this bullsh%^ spamming.
after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)
the second was somewhat harder, the question was “where did you meet your spouse?” did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screensh*&ts that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for “palin eloped” or some such in one of the tabs.
I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on “Wasilla high” I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…
Seriously, that’s all it took. Request Yahoo to send you password recovery, answer the personal questions right, and presto you can change the password and get access. If the “hacker” has enough personal information about you, he can successfully answer the questions and bypass Yahoo’s fluffy security measures and do God only knows what to your account. So really, the guy wasn’t even a hacker, just a clever, (albeit at the same time monumentally stupid) prankster who is now probably getting his face phonebook-bashed in by the Secret Service even as we speak.
But the beautiful thing is, after all that, he found… nothing.
I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family
I then started a topic on /b/, peeps asked for pics or gtfo and I obliged, then it started to get big
Yeah, no kidding. Dumbass.
Of course, this doesn’t stop the Palin Bigots from having a field day and questioning her intelligence because she uses Yahoo Mail for personal use and getting off on having her daughter’s cell and voicemail and whatnot. Well dudes, I use Yahoo too, (in fact two Yahoo accounts), so um, F^&* you?
And really, I can’t imagine the courage it must have taken to go after somebody’s children and family like that. Really now, you anonymous liberals are just a beacon of unparalleled bravery and valor. Don’t agree with a woman’s politics? Let’s attack the kids! That’ll show them stupid hick Christians who didn’t have the sense to have abortions when they should have gotten them!
God I hate moonbat DailyKos sucking liberals.
Update: The “Hacker?”
God he even LOOKS like a dumbass. 
Tags: anonymous, bigots, christian, Christians, email, family, God, hacker, liberal, liberals, Michelle Malkin, password, politics, prank, sarah palin, security, yahoo
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LifeLock Gets Picked
Lincoln Adams | May 22, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
Tee hee… 
…Lifelock customers in Maryland, New Jersey and West Virginia are suing Davis, claiming his service didn’t work as promised and he knew it wouldn’t, because the service had failed even him.
Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses at least 20 times using Davis’ Social Security number, though some of the applications may have been rejected because data in them didn’t match what the Social Security Administration had on file.
Davis acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that his stunt has led to at least 87 instances in which people have tried to steal his identity, and one succeeded: a guy in Texas who duped an online payday loan operation last year into giving him $500 using Davis’ Social Security number. (Source: Wired News)
I really have no comment other than to say there really is no such thing as security, and greedy lawyers totally suck the big one.
Tags: fraud, identity theft, lawsuit, lifelock, security
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Wi-Fi Fun With My Neighbor
Lincoln Adams | June 24, 2007 @ 1:31 pmOccasionally I break out my laptop at home to test a few things on my blog, or if I just want to surf the net while I’m cooking something in the kitchen. Lately though I noticed my wi-fi access wasn’t moving as quick as I’d like. I was using a Linksys router, and my signal was excellent, so I wasn’t sure what the problem was. But since I wasn’t using the laptop very often I didn’t think too much of it. However, one day it finally irritated me enough that I opened up my laptop’s wireless settings to check the signal’s strength. Signal was green and everything was gravy, except it was connected to a neighbor’s wi-fi.
Whoops!
Apparently I’ve been surfing on my neighbor’s wi-fi for the better part of a week, and I hadn’t even realized it until now. My own wi-fi is encrypted, so I should have known something was amiss when my laptop connected without giving me an error message, even though it was preset to connect to open wireless connections at Panera Bread.
Thank goodness I use wireless encryption! I mean I knew it would be relatively easy to connect to a neighbor’s open wireless network, but I had no idea it could be THIS easy. When I checked my settings again, I noticed that there were over 5 wireless networks in range, and only ONE of them was encrypted. Amazing.
Hmmm, wonder if I should take this opportunity to do some snooping around? No, no, that would be wrong. 
Tags: blog, encryption, error message, goodness, gravy, internet access, laptop, neighbor, security, whoops, wi fi, wifi, wireless network, wireless networks
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No More Upgrading! ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
Lincoln Adams | April 21, 2007 @ 11:55 pmAfter years of computer use, you’d think I would have learned by now that it’s not always wise to upgrade to the latest and greatest software the minute it comes out. It’s just bad hoodoo, dude.
But of course the second Wordpress 2.1 had been released, I just HAD to download it and install it right away, thinking my blog would run twice as fast due to the much touted bugfixes and cleaner code 2.1 offered. I imagined angels singing and the sounds of songbirds chirping as visitors would come and gape in awe at the newfound speed and ease at which they would surf my newly upgraded website.
Nope. Instead, it broke a few of my plugins and then torpedoed my blog’s skin. I furiously deleted everything and uploaded my backup copy as soon as I could, then sat back with a tear in my eye as other bloggers happily went onto 2.1 nirvana.
But I noticed in the brief moment that I did manage to get 2.1 working, that my first reaction had been: “Gee, doesn’t seem to be any different from 2.0.” And now, right on the heels of 2.1’s release, the developers are planning to soon release 2.2. After looking at the features THAT release will offer, I realized it didn’t really offer anything that I didn’t already have with the plugins I was currently using now. So truthfully, other than updating Wordpress 2.0.X with security fixes, there really wasn’t a pressing need for me to upgrade. I also knew with each upgrade it would take days, weeks, months (and maybe never) for developers to update their plugins in order to ensure compatibility with the latest version of Wordpress.
So what’s the hurry really? My blog is working fine as it is, and besides it seems like every time I upgrade, some major component gets totally hosed, forcing me to downgrade once again. If it ain’t broke…
I’m sure eventually I’ll have to upgrade my blog some day, especially once the developers stop supporting security fixes for my now grandfathered version of Wordpress. But until that happens, I ain’t gonna do nuttin’. Nuttin’, you hear me? Nuttin’!!!
Instead, I cleaned up the backend by removing some useless or rarely used plugins, then installed and somehow managed to get WP-Cache working without a hitch. That should cache my main pages and hopefully speed up load time for visitors. Aren’t I thoughtful? My blog now seems to be running smoothly, all my plugins are functional, and I’m finally starting to enjoy blogging for real again. Life is good.
Now, if I could only get me a woman…
Tags: 2.0.x, 2.1, 2.2, angels, awe, backup copy, blog, bloggers, blogging, cache, compatibility, computer, developers, hurry, nirvana, pages, plugin, plugins, release, security, security fixes, update, updated, upgrade, upgraded, version, visitors, woman, wordpress, wp cache
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Leaving The Nest
Lincoln Adams | September 7, 2006 @ 7:39 pmThere are times when I’m only mildly annoyed at the thought of having to come into work. And then there are days where the mere mention of work has me foaming at the mouth. This is one of those days.
One of the most annoying things about my job is the blaring ring the phone gives off: an obnoxious bullhorn of a ring that has the same grating effect as fingernails scraping a chalkboard. After 6 years of hearing these rings, the mere sound now evokes thoughts of homicidal violence. Methinks it’s time either for a new phone, or a new job. I think I’ll go with the latter.
Not that this job doesn’t have perks mind you. I get four days off every other week, have excellent medical benefits, as well as ample time on the books for when I want to take vacations (which is always). The work may be about as exciting as watching paint dry, but there’s not much to it, and if I get done early, I can relax for the rest of the day.
And yet, I hate this job. Truly, utterly, HATE it. It was precisely the kind of job I had gone to college to avoid… and yet, here I am. But now with law school on the horizon, my life would obviously change drastically, and the day would come where this job will at long last be a thing of the past.
But would things change for the better?
I’ve often asked myself what would be better: a job that I would LOVE doing, but had no perks, or a job I’d hate doing, but had many perks? I’ve always believed that if I truly loved my job, then nothing else would matter. Yet what scares me about the career choice of becoming a lawyer is that I would not only end up in a job I’d utterly despise, but one that would have no perks either. Things may suck now, but the possible future of being saddled with a six figure debt in a profession I’d end up hating just as much as the job I have now absolutely terrifies me.
The truth is, I’ve gotten comfortable. As much as I hate the boring, mundane routine of life I’m living now, it’s a life I’ve gotten used to. Here, I’m safe. Out there, I’m not, and by deciding to take a chance here in making such a drastic career change, I run the huge risk of losing the very security I enjoy now. If I end up leaving the nest, would I fly, or would I fall?
I don’t know what to do. You would figure this would be the part where God would come in and show me the way, right? Nope. It’s been proven over the years that God could give a rat’s ass about me, in spite of my pleadings for just a LITTLE direction, just a little something to at least show me that I’m not making the biggest mistake of my life by choosing to go to law school, but He’s too busy helping Benny Hinn and Rick Warren make their millions to be bothered by the likes of little old me.
So, I’m on my own. Should I, or shouldn’t I? Take a chance, or suck it up and count my blessings?
Tags: 6 years, ample time, attorney, bullhorn, career choice, chalkboard, fingernails, God, grating, horizon, job, law school, lawyer, legal profession, life, nest, new job, one of those days, paint, perks, profession, risks, safe, security, undecisive, unhappy, vacations
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