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June 12, 2001 More Despair

Jessica's Site of the Nite: despair.com
For those who don't remember, despair.com made the news on TSS back in March when they announced that they had patented the frownie face emoticon and were going to prosecute anyone who used their trademark, be it in email or whatever. The part about suing for infringement was a joke, but the fact that they received the trademark patent was not. Check out the article on Despair's site. Despair is the company that makes parodies of those motivational posters that you see in office buildings and such. My favorite is the one about conformity.

I read Jessica's write-up for her Site of the Nite. Why am I not surprised that she's a fan of motivational speakers and self-help books? As if she needs any help. :)

Windows Tip: I haven't tried this tip but I was wondering, why bother using Notepad and doing a file search for windows.ini? Running sysedit (click Start, Run, and then enter "sysedit") is a lot faster, and it has a search function to help you find the right section. Maybe sysedit is not included with newer versions of Windows? (I run Windows 98)

Posted by Christy on June 12, 2001 09:54 PM

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