Jason Pearce

Knowing who to contact and what you need in hand will save you lots of time. When I need a Microsoft hotfix, here is what I do:

• Call Microsoft’s support phone number (800) 642-7676
• Navigate through the phone menu, selecting the option regarding hotfixes
• Tell the representative you are seeking a hotfix
• Provide the Microsoft representative the knowledgebase Article ID number
• They will take some contact information, give you a few warnings, provide a case number, and wait on the line for you to download the hotfix

If someone tried to explain to me what parkour was, I don’t think I would have fully understood it. But show me this video, and I got it. Guess I really didn’t need a skateboard when I was a kid.

While sifting through some of my site’s comment spam, I noticed a clever trick one spammer used in an attempt to fool my website’s defenses.

Instead of directly linking back to their site, they posted links that take advantage of an Adobe redirect script. For example, instead of linking to http://spam.com/, they linked to http://store.adobe.com/cgi-bin/redirect/?http://spam.com/.

Here’s an example you can try:
http://store.adobe.com/cgi-bin/redirect/?http://www.macromedia.com/. Oh wait, I guess that’s now an infinite loop.