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17Sep/11

My Favorite #AttackWatch Tweets from Today

Posted by David Marcucci

So if you don't know yet Obama started a website to "track and respond to attacks"...sounds very Hitler-esh to me but it appears to have backfired. After suggesting that people use twitter and the hashtag #AttackWatch to report attacks it appears people have hijacked his tag (I guess they didn't really understand how Twitter worked) and now #AttackWatch is the laughing stock of the internet. Below are some of my favorite tweets so far:

The official kickoff from the AttackWatch twitter account:

See a new attack on the President or his record? Use #attackwatchto report it and discuss attacks as they happen.

and then the people take over:

Hey #attackwatch, I saw 6 ATM's in an alley, killing a Job. It looked like a hate crime!
Hey #attackwatch I just looked at a map of the U.S. Someone has stolen 7 of the 57 States!
Dear #attackwatch my neighbor won't give me all her money even though she makes more than me. Look into this please.
#attackwatch Obamas ego is blocking my view of the sky.
#AttackWatch #truestory A small business owner told me he tried to hire 7 people & they all turned him down b/c they were on Unemployment.
#attackwatch I want to report someone at home on the range who said a discouraging word.
No hashtag is safe from the hordes of people who actually pay their own bills.#attackwatch
#AttackWatch - Reporting WA Longshoremens Union. They attacked and vandalized without Obama campaign materials! INVESTIGATE!
#attackwatch I got the White House Honey Ale that Obama created. It promised not to go above 8% alcohol but turned out to be closer to 10%
Hey, #attackwatch , there wasn't any sauce for my McNuggets. Do we contact you or 911?
I found a website with lies about .@BarackObama It's WhiteHouse.gov #attackwatch
#attackwatch My dog just created a shovel ready job for someone. It's piled up in my front yard.
Watch out, monthly jobless report. @AttackWatch is onto you. #attackwatch
#attackwatch I want to report my co-worker, who doubts your divinity because you need a teleprompter to speak coherently.
A stopped #attackwatch is right twice a day.
See a new attack on the President or his record? Use #gestapo to report it and discuss attacks as they happen. #attackwatch
#AttackWatch There is a Communist in the oval office.
#AttackWatch There's a new Twitter account making President Obama look like a creepy, authoritarian nutjob: @AttackWatch
New Timex #attackwatch...takes a lickin but keeps on snitchin!!!
Dear #attackwatch how many people do I need to turn in to get the #attackwatch hoodie? What I really want is the Obama bobblehead!
Dear #AttackWatch - I'm eating a high carb, high sodium meal right now.

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4Apr/11

A Stroll Through My Internet History on Usenet

Posted by David Marcucci

I was reading an article and someone mentioned "stalking themselves on the usenet archives" via Google Groups. I thought, this sounded interesting. While I can't actually remember posting anything to usenet groups back in the day, doing a quick search reminded me of my very early projects where I work and how far I have come (along with the technology). It's hard to imagine I once struggled trying to set up a simple web server. If you ever used usenet, you should search for yourself, it was fun. Here are some of the posts (along with dates) that I chuckled at. (Sorry, non-geeks may not get it.)

Posted October 3, 1997 in microsoft.public.frontpage.client:

I had FP 97 installed with the web server (1.1 I think, not MS personal)
on my Win NT 4.0 workstation and I upgraded to FP 98(beta). After I
finshed installing FP 98 the explorer and editor would load and work
fine but whenever I run the server EXE files I get "{location of EXE} is
not a valid Windows NT application." Does anyone know what is going on?

Stats:

Win NT 4.0 Workstation on a PII 200
Upgraded from FP 97 -> FP 98 Beta
Web server will not run?

Ideas:

I used this same copy of FP 98 on two win95 machines and it runs fine.
Is there a Win NT version? (I didn't think so) Maybe I have the Windows
95 version?

Thanks for you help.

Posted December 5, 1997 in microsoft.public.frontpage.client:

I'm using Frontpage 98 BETA and the Personal Web server that comes with
it to design a site on a WIN NT 4.0 machine. I want to use a perl
program I wrote and I have placed it in the cgi-bin directory but every
time I try to run it I get a 500 Error in the client and a line in the
log that says:

[Fri Dec 05 14:04:48 1997] httpd: could not create new process: 193

The program runs fine from the command prompt and I have a test script
in the cgi-bin dir that runs okay (it just prints a line to the client).

What am I doing wrong? Why won't it work? Please help me.
I appreciate all suggestions and help.

Posted December 22, 1997 in microsoft.public.inetserver.iis.activeserverpages:

I am trying to get Perlscript to run on my machine within ASP docs but I
am having trouble. I am testing my setup with a Perlscript/ASP example
(from a CD) that just prints basic stuff like Browser type, version, IP
and so on.

Problem: I keep getting a 500 error when I try to run the ASP

I am running: Windows NT 4.0
Frontpage 98
Microsoft Frontpage Personal Web Server 32/3.0
I have Perl32 installed and FP is set to allow scripts

access log says: "GET /cgi-bin/browser.asp HTTP/1.0" 500 0
error log says: httpd: could not create new process: 193

Any Ideas???

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30Mar/11

Negotiate Better, Get More

Posted by David Marcucci

I was forwarded this article from my father and I thought it was pretty good. People who know me say I'm a good negotiator. I don't always agree since I don't get everything I want, however, this article does point out a lot of the tips I try to use when trying to get something from others.

"Use the other person's name" is likely the one I always do. It's hard for someone to say "no" to you when you are using their name and they feel they are talking to another "person" rather than a "customer". This is especially useful on the phone. I've often detected a drastic change in tone on the other end as soon as I say the other person's name. It's as if they were talking to a customer then realized they're talking to a friend. Don't expect that every time, but you'll get it once in a while.

There are a few others that I didn't use in the past, but will now. Also, it was a great reminder about techniques I have used but sometimes forget. Hopefully you will find it helpful as well.

http://passivepanda.com/become-better-negotiator