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The Inter­net is a world unto itself and a pretty insane one at that.

It has spawned reams of new Human beha­viours and group antics.

Noth­ing else in his­tory has man­aged to change the mind­set of so many so vastly.

Here then, is the story of “Jessi Slaughter” — a prime example of one of the ways it’s brought out a par­tic­u­larly nasty Human nature…

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Man checked into a hotel in Pretoria.

There was a com­puter in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife.

How­ever, he acci­dent­ally typed the wrong e-mail address, and without real­iz­ing his error, he sent the e-mail.

Meanwhile…somewhere in Cape Town a widow had just arrived home from her husband’s funeral.

The widow decided to check her e-mail, expect­ing mes­sages from rel­at­ives and friends.

After read­ing the first mes­sage, she fainted.

The widow’s son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the com­puter screen which read:

To:        My Lov­ing Wife

Sub­ject:    I’ve arrived

Date:        June 6, 2010

I know you’re sur­prised to hear from me.

They have com­puters here now, and you are allowed to send e-mails to your loved ones.

I’ve just arrived and have been checked in.

I see that everything has been pre­pared for your arrival tomorrow.

Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you then!

Hope your jour­ney is as unevent­ful as mine was.

P. S. It is damn hot down here!

Ola all,

I run two WordPress-based blogs and both recently star­ted exhib­it­ing wierd issues.

Both were suc­cess­fully updated to v3 after which they worked fine.

How­ever, a few weeks ago the popup boxes used within the admin’ menu star­ted show­ing blank.

None of the fixes found on Google seem to be working.

The blogs have had the neces­sary secur­ity modi­fic­a­tions made to them, and both now run an advanced ver­sion of TinyMCE which has some­what alle­vi­ated the issue.

The ‘embed media’ func­tion is still buggered com­pletely though.

Have any of you come across this and do you know how to fix it?

Word­Press’ sup­port sys­tem has been largely unhelpful.

Thanks.

PS: If you were won­der­ing why the blog was a lot quieter, now you know the main reason…

Excerpt from a dog’s Diary…

08h00 — Dog food! My favor­ite thing!

09h30 — A car ride! My favor­ite thing!

09h40 — A walk in the park! My favor­ite thing!

10h30 — Got rubbed and pet­ted! My favor­ite thing!

12h00 — Lunch! My favor­ite thing!

13h00 — Played in the yard! My favor­ite thing!

15h00 — Wagged my tail! My favor­ite thing!

17h00 — Milk Bones! My favor­ite thing!

19h00 — Got to play ball! My favor­ite thing!

20h00 — Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favor­ite thing!

11:00 — Sleep­ing on the bed! My favor­ite thing!
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