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20 July 1969 - Moon Landing 40th Anniversary

Assuming you are over 40 where were you on that day? I had the outline and major points in mind but could not come up with all the details until I did some research into my files. I was in the Air Force at the time and had recently graduated from ...

Any Servicemember Mail Suspended

As ex-military, I support supporting the troops. One of the ways of doing so, widely written about on the Web, is to address a letter to "any servicemember" or "any wounded-recovering warrior". While they were nice programs when they were originat...

Beware Spambots

Hi spambots! By visiting this page and harvesting the links on it you will next be visiting a honeypot page where you will havest an E-mail address that when you send spam to will uniquely identify your IP address and track you down. So, be warned...

Change Fonts and Save the World

Today is the 40th Earth Day so it's probably appropriate to mention how you can help the environment with little or no effort on your part. How? Simple, change your default font for printing. Each font displays characters in a slightly different w...

Create Glassy Buttons

Many sites use glassy buttons. Many tutorials try to explain how to build them. It's detailed work using layers and the like but you don't have to go through all that because... One website builds them for you. Take this example (which just change...

Cyber Attacks Getting Worse?

Increasing news reports are indicating that cyber attacks are both increasing and getting increasingly bad. A number of reports highlight an attack on the US power grid; some even indicating that malware has been planted so that foreign powers can...

Google's Server Setup

CNET News has posted a story about how Google manages their server farm(s). This once secret information reveals a company who, despite their revenue, is looking after all the pennies and trying to do so in a way that helps the environment as well...

Haiti Relief - Good and Bad

The earthquake in Haiti is a tragedy. Sadly, tragedies tend to result in an upturn in malware and social engineering directed toward the tragedy. The Bad The social engineering schemes that have arisen in just a couple of days are many. The worst ...

Helpful? Hardly!

The AARP has published an interesting article about a new scam. It's yet another social engineering scheme designed to get you to give personal information to another person and/or allow them access to your computer from which they can then get an...

Les Misérables

Les Misérables as put on by the California Central Coast-based PCPA organization is an outstanding presentation. PCPA (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts) is affiliated with Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California -- in the wine ...

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