How To Conquer a Blog Addiction
- Make sure all computers in your house are nonfunctional. [I know I should link to previous posts here, but I'm beat. You'll understand if you read on.]
- Bring home work computer for the weekend.
- Plug in wireless card.
- Surf blogs harmlessly for an hour or so.
- Take a cute little quiz. [No, I'm not linking to it. You'll understand why in a minute. But guess what, if I were an obsolete skill I'd be Latin!]
- Check Chez Miscarriage to read the 157 new comments on that great drive-by thread.
- Notice that there's a weird hyperlink on the word "work" on Grrl's latest post (as in, "We all work to maintain a supportive atmosphere around here.")
- Click on the word "work," only to be startled when a page full of job-search links suddenly appears. That doesn't seem like Grrl...
- Go back to your own blog. Notice weird hyperlinks on random words you wrote earlier, like "work" and "love."
- At the same time, notice several popup ads popping up all over the place.
- Also, there are some new icons down at the bottom of your screen.
- And some new icons have installed themselves on your desktop.
- And several of the pop-up ads are suggesting that you install them to get rid of unwanted pop-ups and spyware. Oy!
- Go to your Control Panel and laboriously uninstall everything you can identify as virusware.
- There's lots.
- Restart.
- Check your blog. Yay, weird hyperlinks are gone!
- But several annoying popups remain. And somehow the virus has reset your home page.
- Set your home page back to Google.
- Uninstall some more.
- Restart.
- Smack head against wall as 25 ads immediately pop up, freezing all operations to a halt.
- Shudder to think of how you will have to throw yourself on mercy of previously-maligned Tech Guy come Monday.
- Restart.
- Click "x" box madly on all popups, until you're down to just three that won't go away.
- Open a new Explorer window.
- Open Blogger.
- Post your woes.
- Determine that if there is a God, She does not want you going online.
- Turn off computer, throw away wireless card, swear off all Internet use forever.
- Or at least until Monday.
posted by elswhere | 12:13 AM
6 Comments:
32. Buy a Mac.
33. All of that annoying crap disappears, instantly and forever.
I am "regularly metric verse". I can live with that.
Three words: windows system restore. You can choose a date in the past and everything will be restored to how it was then. It's like a time machine that works, as long as you wish to go in reverse.
It's saved our butts a couple times when we've experienced things like those happening to your machine.
Good luck,
Suzanne
Macs aren't the solution they used to be. Annoying spammers and popup-adders (accidental but surprisingly accurate description) are more and more targeting the latest Mac OS.
I find myself unable to resist plugging macs as well. And in safari you can just turn off pop-ups as a preference. It's like the cat/dog, waitress/temp, Laverne/Shirley thing. You're one or the other and you feel hopelessly compelled to try to convert everyone on the other pole.
dog/actually I would be a substitute teacher in a pinch/Lavernely yours,
Angela
This certainly makes a good point. I'd like to see the response of others on this topic. Makes interesting reading.
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