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Sunday, Mar 30 2008

Annoying pop ups

Dear visitor: I know you may get some annoying pop up ads when visiting this site. That's because I am using a "free stats" service to help me track traffic, etc. and they are the ones popping the ads. There are several ways to get rid of them. A combination of 3 layers totally eliminates them:

1. Make sure your pop up blocker is on for your browser
2. If you have a help bar (Yahoo, Google, etc.), make sure the pop up blocker is on for that
3. This is the most effective: add entries to your hosts file that redirect the pop up domains to 127.0.0.1

Below are the entries on my hosts file for example. It is in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Just open it and edit it with notepad. That will do it, if 1 and 2 didn't completely eliminate them. You can also keep adding more domains as you find them.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 media.travelzoo.com
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 advertising.com
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m3.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m4.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m5.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 classmates.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 img.x10.com
127.0.0.1 cserver.mii.instacontent.net
127.0.0.1 cgi.tripod.com
127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 c1.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c2.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c3.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c4.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c5.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c6.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c7.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c8.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c9.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 c10.zedo.com
127.0.0.1 www.quizrocket.com

Dinner last night

Had dinner at Tailor, on Broome St., with a few friends last night, it was very good. I tried the Foie Gras apetizer and then Wild bass. The we went out for a drink into a cool little bar, nearby another place called The Library, which was too crowded. This place didn't even have a sign, you had to know it was a bar. Eclectic mix of people inside, we had a good time.

Sunny and not quite so cold today, although still unpleasant for being pretty much April.

NYC AutoShow

Went to the Auto Show yesterday with Hans. Super-packed, way too many people, but it was cool. Some nice cars on display, including a Mercedes SLR and a Porsche GT2, several Aston Martins, Bentleys, Laborghinis, etc. I took a few pics with my phone, I will post them some time. Below is one of them.

Site Outage

My ISP migrated the servers to a new facility over the weekend, so the site was down most of yesterday, Saturday. Forgot about it, otherwise I would have redirected traffic to a temp page. Anyway, all seems to be back and fine.

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