Talk about a wasted afternoon. I spent the entire morning meeting over at Bellevue for the NLA meeting. Normally I would just write the whole day off and go home whenever the meeting is out of town. Today was different. I have been playing email tag with a student to help him figure out why he can't get into our online resources for about a month. He won't give me his phone number so he has to call me, I can't call him. We set up Thursday morning as the time for me be here. Anyway - I'm sitting the office all afternoon. No phone call. I could have gone home to finish typing up Monday's hand out, or finish revising the tips for the new faculty document, or even take a nap. ERF!

Good news Sims fans - Maxis has released a patch for Sims: Hot Date. Go there and pick it up. I know I will.

Shake your link thang, shake your link thang, yah yah!:

• Spyware, In a Galaxy Near You & Where Are These Pop-Ups Coming From? - If you use Audio Galaxy, you probably want to read this. More spyware is being passed around, this own seems really suspicious. {"Where Are ..." article via /usr/bin/girl}
  
• Distributed's New Word: Please - "The legal nightmare for David McOwen ended last week with a minor fine, probation, and a lesson learned: Ask before you install software on somebody else’s computer." Something he did for the good of humanity got him punished. Think about it before you help an old lady cross the street.
  
• Exactly What Is AOL Up To? - "In January, the company launched a lawsuit against Microsoft, announced that two executives would soon be spending more time with their families, seriously downgraded its financial outlook for 2002, boosted access charges for its most uncommitted users, and was rumored to be in talks to purchase Red Hat, a Linux distributor." Makes you wonder what's up for the real evil empire, America Online Time Warner.
  
• Buy DVDs and games abroad - and break the law - Buying mod chips for your Playstation just became a bit more shadier practice, even if you did want to play legal copies of foreign movies or games.
  
• FTC proposes hotline to thwart telemarketers - I read about this in the newspaper and thought YES! Sign me up, baby! {via/usr/bin/girl}
  
• WizardWorld.com - This is a page I should not have shown Jason. Take Wizard, the comic book magazine, and place it online along with the ability to input your collection and have it tell you its worth.

More blogs that I should probably read more often: What's New, Pussycat, The Obscure Store and Reading Room, bluishorange, dollarshort.org, Opine Bovine, Boing Boing, and Ain't Too Proud to Blog