Found a very slick web ad filter Ad Subtract (http://www.adsubtract.com/). I am using it at home and it works very well.

I also bought some hardware this month. An Asus motherboard and 850 MHz Duron processor. This is for my home workstation. I am upgrading to do video processing and my previous system was a PII-350. The Duron really screams and I can overclock as well as upgrade to an Athelon CPU as prices fall.

Its been a rough month so far:
Saturday I noted that some mutants have been using anon ftp (yes, I know I'm a bonehead for enabling it, even temporarily) to trade files. I nuked them, collected IP addresses and whined to the respective ISP's. What does this mean? I have my server behind a hardware firewall, only the ports I am using were enabled, I have it on a small separate file system and its as secure as an FTP server can be. I log all connections on all open ports. I do this for a living and I know what I am doing.

The scary part is that they found me so quickly and I was hit by Script Kiddies from CA, WA, France, Italy and Germany in a few days.

Geez! Drivers have been a problem this week. I commute from New Jersey to an office just outside the city of Philadelphia. What I find is an ever larger group of morons who need to sit in the fast lane all the way through Route 38, then Route 30 (Admiral Wilson Blvd), the Vine Street Expressway and the Sure-Kill Expressway.

Here is a driving tip: If you have 5+ cars riding your butt, there is a 1/4 mile of clear road ahead of you and the right lane is empty, its time to pull out of the passing lane.