Annoying, sis, next bot, faced

I was typing in a URL to my site yesterday and fat fingered it.  I was very surprised to see a page load that looked like an Adware site.  Here is what you see.  I was like WTF??  So I email support and reported it, worried that there was something awry, that somehow internet crooks had hijacked my site.  Well after a lengthy delay, I got a response back from “Yaroslav Udovenko” saying that  “We’ve created new error pages for all our customers to make their sites look more professional” Haha.  No they set it up so error pages on customer sites load adware that generates additional revenue.  I do have the option to change my error pages so they don’t display that junk.  I will be doing that later today.

Well after not seeing my sister for around a year, I will be seeing her for the third time in a month or so.  She is flying in with my bro-in-law, my niece and my bro-in-laws parents.  They are staying at a timeshare in Fort Myers his parents arranged through, gulp, RCI.  They aren’t going to be here that long, they arrive late tonight and fly out Tuesday so I expect we will see them a couple times over the weekend.  I can’t quite remember if Torrin has ever been in our house before.  It will be cool to have everyone in our neck of the woods.

I now have my sights on yet another robot to add to my electronic cleaning crew , the Bissel SpotBot.  I read someone singing it’s praises on a Roomba enthusiast site I frequent often.  It is an automatic spot cleaner.  Supposedly this thing does a fantastic job, even on set stains. Animal excrement cleaning is a nearly daily job in our house and sometimes despite our best efforts it isn’t very successful  depending on the organic compound we are trying to clean. (shit versus vomit versus bile versus …)  You basically set this thing on top of the spot and let it scrub, spray and vacuum the hell out of it.  I don’t think it will be very hard to talk Ali into this one. It could ALMOST make it fun if Nicki shits on the floor.

I heard about Facebook awhile ago.  When I did I went on, set up an account, poked around a bit and then forgot about it.  Well Jeremy, my vball buddy got me to go back there and dig around some more.  To me it’s like a sophisticated version of Myspace.  Facebook has an open API that allows anyone to create Facebook “applications” which can do an endless amount of things.  It is quite cool.  I was surprised to find that quite a few of my friends were on there already.  I even found my brother Pat.  If you want to see my Facebook persona, you can see it here. Nothing too thrilling although my blog entries get imported there and installed a few applications such as one that displays my WoW characters (chicks will dig that!) as well as one that allows you to pick football games and compete against other users.  If you have a sec, check it out.  Punch in someone’s name, you may be surprised to find them on there.