Jennlog

Last night, as we crossed from Nevada to California, I noticed Frontier’s map go a little twilight zone-ish.

going 0mph 881,089 ft above california

Lifelock,

No. I did not provide an “affiliate” with permission to sell you my email address.

Neither you or your “affiliate” bothered to authenticate the ownership of my email address after it was provided to you or them through fraudulent means. I dare you to prove that you or your “affiliate” acquired my email address from me.

This is the second time you have spammed me with this weak “You are receiving this email because you opted to receive messages from us or one of our affiliates” scam.

Stop.

Edited to add:

It appears as if some of their website “contact us” email addresses that I emailed with a request to stop spamming me the first time (and never received a reply or obviously any action) have added my email address to their personal “email deny” lists.

—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
<tami@lifelock.com>
(reason: 553 Sender is on user denylist (Mode: normal))
<member.services@lifelock.com>
(reason: 553 Sender is on user denylist (Mode: normal))

Irony.

So I came home from a meeting yesterday afternoon to a notice taped to my front door:

I did a little exploring and realized that this house is a few doors away from me:

It should be quite the show as they round the corners and get to the power/cable/telco lines running across the street.

My neighbors suggested that the new owner is having the house moved to his property out of town rather than rip it down like everyone else — Now that’s a commitment to recycling.

I was walking by my front tree today and I saw one of the squirrels going to town on one of the stumps left by the tree guys a few months ago.

I then noticed that all the stumps left on the tree were running (literally dripping) with maple sap.

Welcome to Spring Thaw in Boulder.

The Cat House

Driving by the watermain break 30 minutes ago

Looks like a few thousand gallons a minute pouring onto Baseline and then down the hill towards Broadway.

Who knew that calling someone a Canadian in Texas could be comprehended as a racial slur?

I got out of the shower this morning at 7:35ish AM and noticed my answering machine light blinking. I thought it was weird, because no one ever calls me this early.

It turns out there were two calls, both from FIA Card Services telling a Jennifer Wright that SunTrust was sending her account off to a third party. I guess the loan business has gotten so bad the collection agencies are calling me first thing in the morning to pass on their messages.

So, if your name is Jennifer Wright, and you used to have a SunTrust account, FIA Card Services called to say SunTrust is almost over you and asked for you to call them back at 1 (800) 215-6955.

And just like those fancy VoIP services, here is an audio recording of your messages:

Messages for Jennifer Wright from Sun Trust and FIA Card Services

I just realized that the pages and code on jenn.com are older than at least one of the recent visitors who signed up for an Honorary Canadian Citizenship Certificate*.

This is clearly a sign that I need to find something to do with jenn.com — or maybe redesign some of the pages.

* The Honorary Canadian Certificate Generator was something I wrote while I was learning perl for a project in 1996.

I’ve been a Twitter user since April or May last year. It’s a neat way of communicating with people in a “stream of consciousness” way.

Twitter released an API that allows people to create applications that improve upon (and sometimes not) the service users receive. Below are my top ten favorite twitter toys.

1. Twitter Karma by @dossy — a really cool follow/followed dashboard
2. Tiny Twitter by @kcbigring — A mobile twitter client
3. Twitter Stats by @dacort — twitter statistics script (see my statistics below)
4. Snook’s Twitter (snitter) by @snitter — An Adobe AIR-based twitter client
5. Twittervision by @davetroy — Google Maps + Twitter live mashup
6. Tweeterboard by @tweeterboard — a twitter conversation analytics site
7. Tweet Scan by @weex — simple Twitter search engine
8. Twitterverse by @emilychang and @maxkiesler — Tag cloud representation of the Twitter public timeline
9. Twitterholic by @tw_tterholic — Leader board representation of the Twitter public timeline
10. Jott — not an "official" twitter service, but this free voice-to-text service integrates with Twitter

Screen capture from Twitter Karma

Results from Twitter Stats

Edited to add: Yes I am aware of Hashtags. No, I’m not convinced of their utility over just searching on the public timeline on keywords.