Interesting Encounters On The Net
Internet can be fun, and to those who are frequently targeted by hacker, stressful. Today, my encounter with the internet was somewhat intriguing. In the first occasion, I downloaded a file from my mail. From the mail, I read that it was supposed to be a WMA file format. But guess what. To my surprise, when I finish downloaded it into one of my folders, the icon of the file shows that it is a DAT file. I tried opening it but they directed me to a website that asked me to get some sort of migrate licence. Although quite a few of you might get the point, let me just clear out what had happened. In my opinion, this was some sort of piracy protection service that comes together with Windows Media Player. Well, in lay man's term, it doesn't support file sharing. Then my friend encoded it to mp3 format and sent it to me again. This time it worked fine when I opened it. Well, the conclucion is, there is more to be done to piracy protection which is all *cheers* to all downloaders out there (including myself). Then I thought to myself, those people who developed the program and fitted that function there must have been really desperate to protect themselves against piracy.
Well, the other thing that actually happened was this. I was browsing through someone's profile while playing Yahoo Pool when I saw on the cool link that linked me to www.grallon.com . Then, there was this link with the title; just for laughs. Sensing that my brain and soul needed a laugh, I clicked on that linked. To my "surprise", a laughing baby on a stick appeared! Yes! He was laughing and my volume was max. My mom who was watching tv downstairs was filled with mixed feelings. As I now spend a lot of time during my holidays on my wifi, she can hardly tell what I'm doing. So, she must be wondering, "where the hell did my prodigal son smuggled that baby from!". Well, when I showed the page to her, she laughed. Although it didn't manage to make me move an inch, at least it did made my mom laugh.
Posted at 3:36:45 am by by2k_maverick
