Kill Vibrantmedia!

 

Basically you can eliminate this pestulant adware on a Windows machine by editing the hosts file.  Search for a file named hosts (no extension) in your Windows directory, and open it with any text editor.  On my Windows 2000 machine, this directory is C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC.

I've added the following lines to my HOSTS file to block the Vibrantmedia ads:

127.0.0.1 		itxt.vibrantmedia.com 		# vibrantmedia adware
127.0.0.1		devshed.us.intellitxt.com
127.0.0.1		vibrantmedia.com
127.0.0.1		intellitxt.com

Here's where I found out about this trick:
http://www.computing.net/webdevel/wwwboard/forum/480.html

Worcester Seminar

Images from the 2004 memorial seminar in Worcester, Mass.

Sato Sensei demonstrates yonkyo on me... boy, did that ever leave a mark. :)

Sato Sensei (bottom center) with members of the Yanagi Dojo.

More Madison Avenue

These pictures came out a bit darker than I originally expected (or planned). On this morning, I took the 6:53 from East Norwalk. The pictures in the park were taken about 8:10.

My walk to work

Looking east in Madison Square Park

This is my favorite part of my morning commute; walking through Madison Square Park.  It's getting nicer now that it is warming up, and this was a beautiful morning.

Exiting the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. looking at the flatiron building.

My first blog!

Mike at Amberjacks - April 12, 2002

It took a little while, but I finally got this working.