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Somebody's saying bad things about you

Ever if you receive a direct message (DM) from someone on Twitter (most probably someone you follow on Twitter) like "somebody's saying bad things about you" followed with a shortened link - don't ever click it! These are all fake messages and generated by a malicious script or some kind of web virus ! If you happen to click the link, a variety of bad things might happen, including passing on similar messages under your name to others and also including things such as trying to infect your computer with a virus. If you have, or think you may have clicked on a dodgy link in a message like this, there are four remedial steps you should take:

Microsoft Outlook Ruins Birthday Cake

If you like to order a cake at Wegman’s bakery, you can simply email them a personalized message that will be printed on the cake. A lady in NY followed the same procedure and ordered a birthday cake over email but here’s what they delivered on her birthday – a cake with some HTML icing. The cake below was supposed to be a mix of English and Italian, but the staff apparently knew no Italian. The problem? Wegman's email system also apparently did not recognize some of the proprietary Microsoft HTML extensions! It turned out that she used Microsoft Outlook to send her email but Wegman’s email system failed to recognize the proprietary HTML tags of Outlook and hence this goof-up. This is best explained by an employee of Wegman – “we just cut and paste from the email to the program we use for printing the edible images, we are usually in such a hurry that we really don’t have time to check. and if we do the customers yell at us for bothering them.”

Convert Word documents to clean HTML.

I stumbled upon a site called word2cleanhtml.com which is a simple and easy to use web app where you paste the contents of a Microsoft Word document and it instantly converts the text into clean HTML. Especially useful for SEO-centric webmasters who have content in MS Word format to be published on the web. How to generate clean HTML from your Word document in 3 easy steps Open your Word document.doc now. Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy Go to http://word2cleanhtml.com/ Paste the contents of your Word document in the large (editable) text area box. Press the big yellow button labeled " Convert to clean HTML "