:: W4B photography's companion blog ::

"I have been, and always shall be, your friend. Live long, and prosper... " - Spock

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong

:: welcome to W4B photography's companion blog :: My Main Page ::: Visit My Flickr PhotoBlog ::: Gmail Me! ::

[::..Some Fav's..::]

:: Environment Canada London Weather

www.flickr.com

More of work4bandwidth's photos

:: LanceArmstrong.com

:: Team Discovery

:: LAF.org

:: ProCycling

:: Cycling News

:: TourDe France

:: Gmail

:: Google.ca

:: Google News

:: Google Maps

:: MapQuest

:: Maps of London

:: CNN

:: BBC News

:: Sympatico Email

:: Hotmail

:: Yahoo Mail

:: Technorati

:: DNS-411.com

::www.80211hotspots.com

:: Wired

:: BabelFish Translator

:: / .

:: The Iceberg

:: Seti

:: TPS

:: MBAjungle

:: London Movie Listings

:: Honda SUVs

:: CAA London

:: San Diego Marine Museum

:: I,Cringley

:: Ontario Lottery Info

:: Mars Rovers JPL

[::..Some Blogs I read..::]

:: Happiness is a Choice

:: WWDN

:: WWdN: In Exile

:: Daily Source Code

:: All things Christie

:: The Scobleizer Weblog

:: Written Inc.

:: Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection

:: Flickr Nation

:: Flickr Blog

:: Flickr: London, Ont

:: Tips From the Top Floor

:: The Torontoist

:: GTA Bloggers

:: attu

:: Phainomena

:: Persephone

:: C'est What?

:: Daily Dose of Imagery

:: Heather's Marketing at Microsoft

:: John Porcaro

:: Halley's Comment

:: Joi Ito

:: Addicted to Digital Media

:: The Scripting News

:: iPodder.org

:: Doc Searls Weblog

:: William Gibson's Blog

:: Bacon and Eh's

:: BWG

:: Tokyo Calling

:: Kevin Rose

:: Sarah. Word

:: Alex Albrecht

:: Engadget

:: A View From Elsewhere

:: Channel Nine

:: Occupational Adventure

:: Matt Goyer

:: Around My Room

:: Jeremy Zawodny

:: Micro Persuasion

:: eclecticism

:: Boing Boing

:: Meta-Filter

:: Mike's List

:: Princess Joanna's Kingdom

:: The K Man

:: InstaPundit

:: Mike's Journal

:: Corporate Engagement

[::..Some Things I use..::]

:: Canon Cameras

:: SanDisk

:: London Honda

:: Honda Canada

:: Nike

:: Power Bar

:: G-Shock

:: Cat Eye

:: Rocky Mountain

:: Trek

:: Creative

:: Samsung

:: Logitech

[::..Other Things..::]

Blogarama

Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!

[::..archive..::]

:: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 ::

Snopes
internet life: OK. Time for my twice a year little, uh, thingy, about urban legends and passing on emails with !!!!!!! and THIS IS TRUE!!! TELL EVERYONE!!!!.

Before you send me one of those emails, and I get them now and then from well meaning and otherwise bright and intelligent folks, I want you to do some research to see if it is true. Just because a trusted friend of a friend's sister's boyfriend's roomate's mom's accountant found out X and it has been a maelstrome o' bits on the internet flowing from SMTP to POP and back for a few days doesn't automatically make it or anything real. And may have been floating around the net since 1996 and only has recently started to make the rounds again.

Go to places like Snopes. See if there is something to it. Because, you know I probably will. And perhaps I will press the dreaded "reply all" button and make sure everyone on the distro knows that you and the previous folks got conned. And you can then blush by the light of your monitor as you read what you should have researched better before you sent it to everyone in your address book.

Be warned. :)

The truth is out there... but not everything out there is the truth.

Carpe Diem

:: Mike Wood 10:28 [+] :: 1 comments
...

1 Comments:

The truth is better than inaccurate convictions. Patience has its virtue, yet also has its limit.

By Anonymous, at 1:21 PM