Creating Alltel Connection

If you are a Midwest Wireless customer with an Audiovox 6600, you may have trouble authenticating for data when roaming on Sprint. Follow these instructions for creating a new Alltel connection.

Start/Settings/Connections
Tap the Connections applet
Tap Manage existing connections
Tap the New... button
Enter a name for the connection "Alltel 3g"
Leave modem at Cellular Line
Tap Next
Enter #777 as the dialed number
Tap Next
In User name: (yourtendigitphonenumber)@alltel.net
In Password: alltel
Click Finish

The radio button should be selected next to Alltel 3g in the resulting control panel. To test it press on this line and choose Connect from the pop up menu. It also seems to allow authentication on Verizon Wireless. (credit to greenlime812)

Happy surfing!

Spike Sends Jessica to Dirt Nap

In Spike's thoughtful soliloquy, last week, he bid adieu to his bride.

"Oh, Baby. You know what? I never really saw myself as a married man, you know, with a wife, kiddies. But after I blackmailed you into marrying me, and this is gonna' sound really dumb, but I used to have this fantasy all the time, you know. About how life could be for us some day. You know, it's the usual.

"You know. Little house. White picket fence. Huh. Then you coming home after doin' a few easy tricks, give me a big fat kiss, then goin' to make dinner. Then in the summer time, when it was still light outside, I'd take the little kids out and teach them how to pick pockets and shoot their first guns.

"Then, of course, we put those little monsters to bed and we have it out in the bedroom like never before, Honey. Get wasted, of course, and watch porn.

Yeah, Baby, that's the American Dream. But that dream is dead now, Honey. And that's too bad."

Passions on NBC, week of June 19, 2007

Could Orb Be Infected?

I use Orb version 1, since version 2 refuses to operate for me. This morning my firewall notified me that Orb had changed. However, I was not notified, or requested, to do an update. I was just leaving for work, so I did not write anything down, but the details indicated the source of the change had yahoo in its domain name. This is too suspicious, so now I don't feel like I can let Orb run, or get out of my system because it may have been infected. I hear that messaging programs are being used as a conduit for exploits, and that yahoo messenger had an urgent security update. Should I do an Add/Remove on Orb and reinstall?

dspam reveals spam levels

I didn't realize how much spam I get until I saw this graph.

Hazy Des Moines

The air quality is low in Des Moines today.
I have not been able to figure out where the cam is at. Drop me a note if you recognize the view.
Airnow.gov web cam

Waterloo Climate Summary

MAY 2007 WAS WARMER AND WETTER THAN NORMAL. THE NORMAL MEAN TEMPERATURE FOR MAY IS 60.2 DEGREES. MAY 2007 AVERAGED 64.5 DEGREES WHICH IS 4.3 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. NORMAL PRECIPITATION FOR MAY IS 4.15 INCHES. A TOTAL OF 4.65 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS REPORTED IN MAY WHICH EXCEEDED THE AVERAGE MONTHLY TOTAL BY 0.50 INCHES.

THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE IN MAY WAS 86 DEGREES ON MAY 19TH, WHILE THE LOWEST TEMPERATURE REPORTED IN MAY WAS 43 DEGREES REPORTED ON MAY 18TH. AND MAY 25TH. THE HIGHEST 24 HOUR PERIOD FOR RAINFALL WAS MAY 23RD WHEN 1.54 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION WAS REPORTED.