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Sunday 5 April 2009

Beware Blogger, I'm a thief!

Little anecdote I thought might be worth a mention:
I have just recently invested in a laptop, and yesterday afternoon spent an interesting couple of hours establishing a wireless connection to my existing modem. At a certain point I decided to test the connection by putting in the address of this blog. After a few minutes dithering (one might suppose) I was presented with a message from the laptop's pre-installed anti-virus software apologising for the fact that they had decided not to open the requested page as it would seem that the sole purpose of picsandpoems.blogspot.com is to steal traffic from some outfit calling itself blogger.com.

19 comments:

PurestGreen said...

Shock! David, how could you? Tee hee. Hope you are able to sort it out shortly.

Karen said...

That's funny! AI= Artificial Intelligence, for sure!

Bagman and Butler said...

Thanks for the post, Dave. It makes me realize that the internet is the one place where lots of traffic is actually considered a good thing! Next time I'm in gridlock, I'll roll down my window and shout to the car next to me, "Hey! How about all this great traffic?! Think we could sell some of it on the Internet?

Michelle D. Argyle said...

LOL! I'm assuming you found your way around this. :D

Shadow said...

what? what a concept...

LR Photography said...

Now you are a hacker!

Michelle said...

Ha ha!

Tess Kincaid said...

Uh-oh. Sounds like you are a criminal now, for sure!

Aniket Thakkar said...

Welcome to the dark side Dave. ;-)

Dave King said...

Thanks all

It amused me too - later!

Tumblewords: said...

Sigh. And so this is how it begins.
Laughing. Kind of. Rarely a day passes without some sort of 'humor' dispensed by the 'net foundation.

Chef E said...

Yes, amusing! Try doing it while in Italy...you will read Italian whether you want or not!

Unknown said...

That's a good one-- the security features really are a good thing overall, but until you tame them down they can come up with some strange ideas.

Just Jules said...

And this is why Computers will not eventually take over the world

JC-QOAS said...

Oh well, David you are really a king,your surname is king and your post are kings :-)

LadyFi said...

Hilarious! The Internet HAS got a sense of humour after all!

Wendy said...

Did it say it in the voice like in Space Odyssey movie? Now that would be REALLY creepy...

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