Hey everyone here is a much needed update that I have been meaning to get to for days now. But first today has been very busy on the news front. First up is a pretty big announcement from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The Big 3 of searching have partnered up with Manilla, Six Apart, WordPress, Flickr, Blogger, Livejournal, Buzznet, Blojsom, Blosxom to perhaps put a stop to the rampant comment spam bots that are crippling the blogging community. What these spam bot seek to do is place the URL of their site on as many blogs, guestbooks, etc so that when search engines go through all the links on the site they will see all of the spammed comments as being linked together which has the effect of pushing up the page rank of the spammer’s site. I have experienced a small portion of these bots as have some of my friends so I think this is a good think for everyone to go to. If you want to read more about you can read about it here
In other news apparently everyone who every thought that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was bad now had proof, and it comes directly from Microsoft itself. According to this article Windows users recently received an antispyware program through windows Update that was supposed to remove viruses and whatnot identified IE as spyware and then removed it from the system! Also, according to this article many players of the popular online game World of Warcraft need to be brought to the lord. 
And on the personal front I am settling in well after returning from Winter Break. We lost a suitemate this semester, Mike left to go live with his Frat brothers so Shawn is living on his own now (lucky SOB 
) Bryan and I are doing well in our “swinging bachelor pad” and I think I am going to move in with my old suitemate Robbie for the summer and maybe more after that but I don’t know and on the SMSU front my semstar should be much lighter than the last one and the professors all seem to be pretty cool even though I’m stuck with Johnson again, grrrr! I’ll update you all more later on the personal and SMS stuff later, I just got back from hanging out with Robbie and some nice new Mac converts, wh00 we are spreading! Take care of yourselves and post some comments or something so I know your alive.
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