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We hope you had a nice holiday Thursday. No holiday, you say? After all, it was in 1828 that Jules Verne, French novelist, and one of the first writers of science fiction, was born. In 1834, Russian chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev developed the periodic table of elements. Chemistry students have been grateful ever since that he did not name it after himself.

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James Thurber once said, "It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." We found that rather interesting since we found out in a single day that President Bush feels there's a strong case for a tax cut and there were 79 shark attacks last year.

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Astronomy buffs will delight with the astronomy picture of the day at . We are among the most amateur of astronomers, but still find the stargazing world worth a look. You might find this site worthwhile, if anything, for the graphics.
We start off with an example of what NOT to do when taking on a new project and taking home the materials. For about $20, these folks could have rented a delivery truck. What makes this scene double wacky is the fact that there's a Home Depot in the town they are headed for. Further, they expected to make the 40 or so mile trip in this condition. The URL leads to a photo worth sharing.

Inside your owner's manual, there's a table that indicated load limits for your particular vehicle. Overloading causes poor handling, increases the distance required to stop, and can cause serious damage to the vehicle. Most home improvement stores, DIY for the anglo-centric, have some sort of delivery scheme that's pretty cheap to use. Our local Home Depot offers a nice three-quarters-ton truck for about $20. They charge by the time, so the truck is not used for errands and such. The average delivery could easily be done for the base charge. Local trucks are also available from U-Haul, Ryder and a number of other franchise rental outfits for a pretty reasonable charge.

Check again in the owner's manual about the towing weight. It's usually much higher than the load weight, so a small trailer might be the answer. Other options might include a car-top carrier, luggage rack, or a contract for delivery.

While mattresses are not all that heavy, they do present an odd problem for transport. Most of the time, we see people driving down a road with a huge taco-shaped object tied to the roof. The front of the mattress has curled up with the wind and is acting like a airfoil: trying to fly off. When such a vehicle pulls up behind us, we see a mattress sticking straight up and waving back and forth.

Tie the mattress down in front, as close to the front as possible. then again, about 1/3 of the way back. The back of the mattress can be left fairly loose. Air flowing over the top of the mattress while driving will lift the rear a bit. Better yet, rent the truck or pay the delivery fee if you can.

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There seems to be one heck of a lot of people who were asleep during the last rash of the "Love Bug" virus. The game is the same. The file that does all of the destruction is a little Visual Basic Script, or .vbs file. If you do not run the script, then you will not get infected. Most of the popular virus protection programs will detect this little menace before any harm is done. Most corporate security screens filter out and remove all e-mail with .vbs extensions in the attachments.

Microsoft is in the creation phase of building a bug filter for this sort of thing. In the meanwhile, the official read on the bug is that you should close up your auto-preview screen and simply delete any and all e-mail with .vbs attachments unless you have prior notice from a reliable source that such a file is being mailed.

As usual, we point the browser over to and get the scoop on the latest rampant vermin.

Another site that is very useful (beyond the reporting that comes as an intrinsic part of your anti-virus subscription) is Hoaxbusters at . For every one of the real bugs out there in cyberspace, there must be dozens of hoaxes. Hoaxbusters estimates that a single examination and resend of a hoax has a $41 million-plus price tag. Who pays? You do, of course.

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Traffic is something that all of the urbanites and suburbanites simply have to deal with. Those with any sort of dense traffic commute look for information from all sources to make their way safer and faster. Local and state governments frequently make their traffic cameras available for the public.

See a very nice list of cameras in most states. Monitoring I-90 in Wall, S.D., might be difficult, but then again, they are traffic cameras (you've got to have traffic!).
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