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Archive for March, 2006

A Yes Body is at the Door

Posted by Netsato on March 24th, 2006

I was putting my nearly 3 year old son to sleep when he heard the sound of footsteps coming from the room above. Thinking the sound was someone knocking on the door he said, “who’s that at the door?”
“It’s nobody,” I explained.
“Are you sure it’s nobody? Maybe it’s a yes body?”

Tale of an “Interesting” Homestay Student

Posted by Netsato on March 22nd, 2006

People often ask what’s worst experience you’ve had as a host family for exchange students. We just had a “interesting” student who stayed with us for 3 weeks. He wasn’t a bad guy, in fact I kind of liked him, but he was definitely the quirkiest homestay student we’ve ever had.
Yuki was a 20 […]

The Developing Story of Bravesentry

Posted by Netsato on March 12th, 2006

Two days ago, I wrote up my notes on my experience with the rouge anti-virus software, Bravesentry. When I found my computer infested with that pesky software I turned to Google for information. Typing “bravesentry” into a Google search turned up a measly 2 results. Can you think of the last time you ran a […]

Yesterday my ’sandbox’ Windows XP computer got hijacked by a seemingly rare anti-spyware software called Bravesentry. (A sandbox PC is one that I use to ‘play’ with. I use it to test configurations and software, but it contains nothing important). I say rare because a quick Google search on “Bravesentry” remarkably found only 2 entries […]

2 Year Old Logic

Posted by Netsato on March 7th, 2006

True stories from the in the life of my nearly 3 year old son:
The other day my son came up to me and said, “daddy I need to change my shirt.”
“Why?” I asked.
“Cuz it got wet.”
“How’d it get wet?”
“From the water.”
A few months ago, my son came home from pre-school with band-aid on his foot.
“What […]