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An incident with Megan last night and a link this morning reminded me about how hard it can be for a regular person to be fooled by phishing attacks Phishing is the practice of a spammer pretending that they are from a legitimate company, such as Bank Of America, Capital One, or PayPal. The spammer [...]

I’ve added a new feature to the site, via FeedBurner and FeedBlitz. You can now subscribe to this blog via e-mail, meaning that you’ll receive a notification every time I post a new entry. I’d prefer that you went the RSS route, but I understand if you don’t want to complicate things. Anyway, you now [...]

We hosted Thanksgiving yesterday for the families. Megan’s folks came down early, since Megan’s mom had volunteered for the cooking. My sister and parents came later, bringing a cheese plate and the wine. It was a great meal, and I had a great time. Everybody seemed comfortable and enjoyed each other’s company. That was a [...]

While working on retooling my sister’s old laptop so that Dad can use it, I also managed to update my Amazon wishlist so that interested parties would know exactly what I was after. I had to delete quite a few things since I had actually already purchased them. Good times.

The Clientele is what happens when you mix Slowdive with the Olivia Tremor Control. Very nice. The Wolf Parade appears to be The Arcade Fire plus synthesizers, which I also like. I just don’t like the record from The Hold Steady. Or the LCD Soundsystem. So sue me. I am really digging the new Dangerdoom [...]

This is my first post from KDE on FreeBSD 6.0. I am very much liking it so far… Now if Java will just compile!

Preparation is key in this effort. The first step is to go to the Windows Device Manager and copy down all the devices that Windows registers on your system. If you make a mistake, you’ll be very glad that you had this in dead-tree format. Here’s my version ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory Philips [...]

So, I want to run different operating systems on the new Dell I just got. I am a technical person who hasn’t done so much installing of Linux or FreeBSD that I can just fly through it. I’m sure people like that exist, judging on messages I see on the forums, but one has to [...]

Erin bought me Fevers and Mirrors on a trip to an independent CD store in downtown Knoxville to which I never returned. I thought it was an OK record with a bit too much screaming for my tastes. I recall enjoying one or two songs on the record though, and that’s sometimes enough to make [...]

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