Richard & Misti's Blog

Here’s a good mailserver open relay tester. Earthlink maintains their own ‘gorbs’-type list, called “Correct Connect”. Lame.
More on “Nevada Geocaching Day”: The Nevada Tourism Commission’s press release, and the official Governor’s Proclamation!
Did you hear about the Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling injuries in Gloucestershire recently? Hilarious.
Sure a lot of the Tooso.I virus [...]

Found the “PicMe! PicMe!” and “Caesar’s Salad” caches today, but couldn’t locate the ‘Avian Reign, Northgate’ cache. Hmmmm. Had a wonderful dinner at KFC following the caching and bottle cap collecting festivities. Mmmmm.

Becky’s bottle cap collection grew by leaps and bounds after our trip to Frenchman Lake yesterday. Here is her current inventory, as of today:
Bawls GuaranaIBC Root Beer (4)Crush Light Orange (4)Stewart’s Orange n’ Cream (4)Newcastle Brown Ale (2)Smirnoff IceSmirnoff Ice Triple Black (2)Sierra Nevada (2)MichelobO’Doul’sBudweiser (9)Bud LightTecate (2)Corona Extra (4)ZapataMiller Genuine DraftCoors OriginalCoors Light [...]

We visited Frenchman Lake in California today, and found a couple of caches to boot:
Frenchman’s BootySHM #238A Low Spot
We shopped a little at Thursday night at the Kohl’s department store on Pyramid Highway, but nothing struck our fancy. The Albertsons in Spanish Springs, on the other hand, had some new candy bars that I [...]

An interesting geocaching tidbit in the news recently: the Nevada Appeal and the Lahontan Valley News both reported on the Fallon Rally last Saturday, but in the article they mentioned that May 21, 2005 was proclaimed as “Nevada Geocache Day” by Governor Kenny Guinn. Cool, but there is no mention of that particular [...]

Our ‘clowncast‘ last night features ‘the fam’ recorded live in Victorian Square in Sparks, in the shadow of the famous Silver Club casino. Feel free to revel in the clownish hilarity, here:
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I tried some new Natural Grape Fruit2O flavored water beverage [...]

A couple of interesting news items today: Ken Jennings gets his own TV show, and the appearance of the Trojan.Pgpcoder virus which encrypts many of the data files on your computer (thus locking you out of them) and demands a ransom from you in exchange for the password. Clever. I also noticed today [...]

Our ‘cachecast‘ yesterday features another story from Becky, as well as some caching news and an analysis of Misti’s laugh, once again recorded in the car. Feel free to give it a listen:
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As mentioned in the podcast, we went back and [...]

Found the following three caches yesterday:
ParkwayAlbert ToidTrail’s End #3
but couldn’t find “Central, Nebraska” nor “Jon Ate Twelve” – both of which are caches placed by RenoHiker. Hmmm. We also hung out at the DMV for a little while only to find out that we didn’t need to. Nice. Speaking of which, [...]

Finished “High Country” by Nevada Barr on abridged cassette audiobook last night. Good book, if a little gruesome in parts. Also found “The Notch” cache last night. Quick and easy one.
The Netscape 8 (final version) browser came out yesterday, and there’s already a security patch for it today (8.0.1). Hilarious. [...]

Today’s podcast features just Becky, telling a story last night in the car. It’s short and sweet, so give it a listen:
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Lots of Sober.Q-related German spam since the weekend. Annoying. There’s a good article in Maximum PC (June 2005 edition, pg. 48-49) about the differences between “dual core”, “dual chip”, and “dual processor” systems. We found the “Cover The Earth” cache last night in Stead. Instead of what? Ha ha.
Apple patches [...]

Our ‘Soniccast‘ yesterday was short and podcasted on location at Sonic Drive-In on N McCarran Blvd. Check it out:
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I watched the “Creature from the Black Lagoon” (1954; Richard Carlson, Julia Adams) last night on VHS. Cheesy, but oh-so-scary. We [...]

Our ‘piecast/frogcast’ last night featured Brad and Emilie and Mike Carpenter, podcasted from Brad’s new home in Curti Ranch. Hear us chat about frogs, ostrich, pie, and smelt:
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We ate some marinated chicken breast, grilled Treet, frog legs, and ostrich steaks last [...]

Apparently, Blogger and Blogger Mobile have implemented captchas during the registration process and during the post publishing process. Lame – I hate captchas.
Microsoft has made quite the stir today with the announcement of “OneCare” – a subscription-based all-inclusive computer protection suite. Sounds good, but who wants to be locked into yet another subscription [...]

Well, I finally solved the “554 denied by gorbs” mystery: Verio Inc. If you send an email to someone and have it bounce back as blocked with an error message of “554 denied by gorbs”, then you’ve tried to send to someone that hosts with Verio Hosting (directly) or another company that outsources [...]

Today is Friday the 13th – nice. Last night I watched National Geographic’s “The Quest for Noah’s Flood” (2001) on VHS, but the documentary was surprisingly poorly named, considering the fact that they actually weren’t looking for anything to do with Noah at all…
Becky and I played a new boardgame last night, “Adventures in [...]

Another cell phone virus was detected in the wild yesterday (the ‘Commwarrior‘ virus). Fun. I upgraded to Firefox 1.0.4 this morning. Did you? I also upgraded to Gaim 1.3.0 yesterday. Not much difference from what I can tell.
We watched “Hyperspace with Sam Neill” (2001) on VHS last night. An [...]

My, how the face of browser security has changed recently. A quick glance at eWeek’s browser security page shows that nearly all of the recent security flaws have been found in Mozilla/Firefox and Apple products. There’s an excellent article today on Firefox being the first browser to suffer a zero-day exploit. Ouch.
Apple’s [...]

Two ‘extremely critical’ Firefox 1.0.3 security holes discovered over the weekend, with accompanying exploits already in circulation. Watch for 1.0.4 to come out soon. Ho hum.
Celebrated Mother’s Day at Anna Maria’s Italian restaurant in the Silver Club Hotel/Casino in Sparks. Here are some photos from Jennifer and James’ recent wedding:

Firefox’s default tabbed [...]