The books aren't completely helpful on building concrete steps outdoors. Oh, they think that they're helpful but there's a lot of detail missing. Looks like I'll just have to figure this one out the hard way too. I've started building the forms, but where the literature comes up short is how to keep the forms in place (in three axes) while trying to stake them down. I've got four steps. That's four forms that have to hold completely still so that I can secure them (to make them hold still). Catch-22. I might just build one step at a time instead. The other thing the books don't mention is runoff, but luckily I'm thinking ahead on that. You don't want level steps. You want a very slight (imperceptable) slope both going down hill and in this case away from the house. That way when the rain stops it will dry up quickly.

About the only thing that porn spam is good for is teaching you new things. These folks are always exploiting the most obscure browser and email tricks. This time the site was using a commercial web hosting service and their "product" I'm certain violates their contract. Therefore they tried to make it untraceable. I'd never seen this trick before...

http://1084955842/

...leads to my site. I was totally amazed that it worked, not just in one browser but all of them that I tried. I know why it works. Do you? It isn't a DNS hostname. It's not a 'dotted' IP address, which I thought was the only acceptable form of numeric host assignment in URLs. It's very much a geek question. Oh and I also found their ISP.