They're everywhere...

I'm beset by evil popups :(

Not the normal baby web-page kind, but things which pop up claiming to be from a 'messenger service'. So far they've mostly been offering me porn sites (one of which was apparently "a good spend of time"), and the opportunity to work from home.

They contain no click-through links, and appear to have no purpose other than to appear in the middle of my screen, offering me the option to paste their links into my browser. They appear at random, not when I visit a new page, or anything of that sort.

Does anyone know how I can make them go away ? I'm using Windows XP. (Comments such as "well that's your problem then" will not be considered helpful, though comments such as "stop using IE" are fair enough if it will help, and you recommend something better :)

Pocket Weirdness

Last year, I bought a pair of pale green cords. I quite like them, but am regularly annoyed by their absence of back pockets.

I've just found the back pocket. It's on the inside.

Good for security, I suppose. But I can't help feeling that trying to get anything out of it is going to be undignified at best...