I spent a fair amount of time today wrestling the dreaded adware to the ground. Seems I inadvertantly downloaded some of the malicious stuff which immediately took up residence on my system and started to do it's nasty business. I kept gettiing messages from my internet security program that all these different programs were trying to access the net. I was also getting this annoying page of links to commercial sites every time I did a search in any search engine. Finally I downloaded an updated version of Ad Aware which was able to eradicate the offending programs. I'ts amazing to me how devious people are just to try and get you to buy things from them. Between this adware, popups and spam in the email, the internet is slowly starting to look like a cheap apartment building with flyers and ads strewn about the lobby. At least we don't get ads for pornography in our mailboxes.
Hope everyone enjoyed the Canada Day holiday and drank a little toast to the old gal on her (let me just whip out my calculator here) 136th birthday. Had a busy day yesterday so I was a little too bushed to take in the fireworks.
I just saw a thing on Tech TV today about a new tool bar for Google that you can download and it allows you to instantly post a link to any page you are visiting in Blogger, so I will have to check that out. It also has an anti popup feature which may be helpful. (see the above adware rant)
We will be away for the weekend in Saskatchewan for the wedding, but stay tuned for a report on Monday on what it's like to take a 12 hour road trip with no bladder control.

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