Eengstro on August 11th, 2007

Sit and admire one of the more amusing/frustrating error messages I’ve received from MySpace:

MySpace is an example of what happens when you release a half-assed, hacked together demo to the world instead of a fully-designed and tested product (i.e. something you actually thought through beforehand). You have to keep fixing it, and yet it never [...]

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Eengstro on May 28th, 2007

I seem to receive a fair amount of referrals from this MySpace profile:
http://www.myspace.com/bobby133
I’ve never met this person. Who is that?

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Eengstro on April 24th, 2007

Some foolishness never dies. Yet again this year (on MySpace this time), I’m receiving messages from friends saying, “Don’t buy gas on May 15 (or whatever day)! It’ll hurt the oil companies! That’ll show ‘em!”

In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a [...]

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Eengstro on April 19th, 2007

Saw MySpace give the following error pukage this morning. Sheesh.

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Eengstro on April 18th, 2007

MySpace is truly the worst website on the Internet. I noticed spam bulletins coming from one of my friend’s accounts today. I went to her page to send her a message to let her know, and lo and behold, I got redirected to this page:
http://login.myspace.cfm.fuseaction.splash.mytoken.76701a26.da3e.44a3a17b.794380e6.com/da3e/index.php
See the screenshot. It’s designed to look like a MySpace login [...]

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Eengstro on November 29th, 2006

I received three friend requests on MySpace this morning. The models in the profile pics are a dead giveaway that the profiles belong to spammers. Most of the time I simply ignore these friend requests, but this morning I decided to see what the assholes were up to this time. The profiles themselves are covered [...]

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