Sunday, September 5, 2010

You promised you would not get angry, so here it is


Look, there is so slight, residual concern I have for my ex, D.  I am sure you detected it. It is not one of love, however, but a concern for her welfare.  She attempted suicide three times (at least three times that I know of), most recently in 2004. I have no idea what our breakup did to her, although I think it had no affect on here at all, despite her professed love for me, because of her myriad other issues and problems. 

Having this concern, I needed a way to check up on her.  I did not want to call her, especially in the last three weeks (except for that once) because you would have yelled at me.  So, the only other path I had open was her e-mail, which she does not use very much.  But how could I get access to her e-mail?  Well, as it turns out, in November 2008, when she used my old computer once, she accidentally stored her gmail password on my old computer in Mosaic.  That’s how I learned that she never read a single e-mail from me since December 28, 2008.  Every one of them sent after that were shown as unread. Every now and then I checked up to see if she had read my e-mails, but found that she had not. Not a single one.  No big deal. She does not like email (although she did for the first six months of our relationship.) But in July, Mosaic, my browser on that old computer, stopped working and that old computer has Windows 98 and no browser that I can find supports that any more.  So, in order to be able to access her e-mail from my new computer, I had to transfer her password over to it. But how? Well, I figured out which program stores the search/email passwords (Mosaic) and where Mosaic stores those passwords and how the files are named. So I was able to find that file and transfer it to my new computer.  But the big problem then became trying to figure out the structure of the coded file and then decode the file to get her Google gmail sign-on name and password since that Mosaic file was otherwise unusable on my new computer by anything.  Well, let’s just say this: it took a little use of my decryption skills from my navy days to do it but within several hours I had all the info I needed to get her password.

But then a new problem emerged.  You may not know about this yourself.   Go look at your gmail page and scroll to the bottom of the page. At the bottom you will see five lines of Google-generated information as shown below (the numbers I added).  Take a look at line 3.  It tells you when the last time your gmail account was accessed prior to the one you are in and by which IP address.  If you click on the Details button to the right on that line, it tells you that information for up to the last 10 times your account was accessed.  This line was never and still is not published on the older version of gmail, but was shown automatically on the newer version (which is now the STANDARD version) and the HTML version.  Starting in mid-July, Google automatically switched everyone over to the newer version (the standard version) and you need to click on the older version to get it each time you open gmail up.  Uh-oh.  That meant that starting in mid-July anyone could see who accessed their email last if they look at that line and do not opt for the older version.  Bad dog, Eddie.  But I did it for her well being, not for snooping, since I know D isn’t going to be fooling round for a long time and, frankly, her sex life is not my concern any more. 

HERE IS THE STUFF AT THE BOTTOM OF YOUIR GOOGLE GMAIL PAGE
1- Get Gmail on your phone. It's super-fast. Visit http://mobile.google.com/ on your phone's web browser.   Learn more
2- You are currently using 354 MB (4%) of your 7494 MB.
3- Last account activity: 1 hour ago at this IP (24.126.56.156).  Details
4- Gmail view: standard | turn on chat | turn on buzz | older contact manager | older version | basic HTML  Learn more

Since I decoded D’s password to use on my new computer, I have not accessed her gmail since (mid-July), except once on July 20th before I called her to tell her about Leben, and I learned some things that told me she could use a call from me.

Until today.  I had this urge to see if she was still ok.  As it turns out, she as accessed her gmail twice in the past two months, August 9th and 16.  Her few e-mails tell me that she hasn’t even looked at important e-mails (I did not look at any) and tell me that she has probably been in a funk for the last three weeks by not even looking at her emails. In other words, I learned nothing.

Problem now is, if she knows about that “last accessed’ data at the bottom of the screen, until she signs onto gmail for a second time, she is going to see right away that some computer from DC accessed at it (or if she looks at the details, until she signs on for 10 times she will find that out).  But my guess is that she does not know that it is there yet because if she saw that sometime after mid-July, she would have changed her password, and she did not.

Are you angry at me?  If Yes, click here. If No, go back to reading the email I sent.



Saturday, September 4, 2010

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE SCROLL BENEATH THIS POSTING. IT WILL BE HARMFUL TO YOUR COMPUTER AND MAYBE YOUR HEALTH.


THE ENTIRE AREA BELOW IS FILED WITH A MINEFIELD OF VIRUSES, COMPUTER AND HUMAN.

AND THERE ARE ANGRY DOGS GROWLING AT THE FENCES, PACING BACK AND FORTH, JUST WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO CROSS THE LINE. SO DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND GO BACK NOW.

SO GO ON. GET OUT OF HERE.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Monday, November 17, 2008

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