Firstly let me apologise for my last post, I promised myself that I would not post forwarded emails  on here as it just seems to be the lazy way out when you can't be bothered to write anything yourself. Anyway that said I hope it raised a smile.

Right now a short rant about AOL. They happen to be my service provider and have been for a number of years but has anyone noticed that the software is...shall we say...manipulative? You can read horror stories about not being able to remove their software but I have no problems with that, I don't want to remove it. Be warned though of the "Autofix" feature. I am possibly being paranoid but it appears to not like it if any other application has a higher priority than AOL. This may have been coincidence of course but after it told me there was a problem (which I hadn't noticed) it proceeded to auto fix. All the following day I struggled with ridiculously slow connections around my home network. After checking cables, network switches, running spyware removers, antivirus programs etc. etc. on all four computers and finding nothing amiss I was left scratching my head.

 Seeing as Windows has always positively refused to share its internet connection in our house I beat it with a large stick in the form of a wonderful proxy server program called analogue x (this is a free program by the way, google it if you need it). This program I set in the task manager to have a higher priority than anything else so it always primarily functions as the main task no matter what anything else is doing. So when I finally find the cause of the slow network it is this that has been mysteriously set a lower ranking. Could it be that AOL was jealous? Did the Autofix act like a big brother and bully it's way to the top of the rankings? I can't prove it of course but I will be keeping a close eye on you AOL, little things like this is how Hitler started out.