WARNING - NASTY COMPUTER WORM
Someone has unleashed a VERY sneaky virus/worm today under the disguise of Microsoft Tech Support/Security. If you receive an email from "MS Security Department" called "Current Microsoft Security Upgrade" and it looks like the following text, DO NOT OPEN THE FILE ATTACHMENT...IMMEDIATELY DELETE THE EMAIL.
I received it this morning and we confirmed that it was indeed a hoax without opening it. As a matter of policy, Microsoft does not email security patches to the general public, but instead has a download page or free download service from where you can automatically get updates.
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this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express. Install now to continue keeping your computer secure from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run executable on your computer. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.
System requirements Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT/XP
This update applies to MS Internet Explorer, version 4.01 and later
MS Outlook, version 8.00 and later
MS Outlook Express, version 4.01 and later
Recommendation Customers should install the patch at the earliest opportunity.
How to install Run attached file. Choose Yes on displayed dialog box.
How to use You don't need to do anything after installing this item.
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Monday, September 22, 2003
Monday, September 15, 2003
TOM & KATE ON THE MOVE
Tom and Kate are now in the process of moving to their new home as mentioned last week. The new address, starting today Sept. 15, is:
2055 Paul Courter Way
Sacramento, CA 95835
(916) 928-0648
They mention that they will continue to have their cell phone numbers:
Tom - 916-342-3125
Katie 916-342-0436
and email addresses:
Tom - lawman2be@aol.com
Katie - kmhreid@aol.com, khappereid@hannabrophy.com
Send them a housewarming gift or friendly greeting when you get a chance!
GEORGE AND SUE GALLUP-BOUND
George and Sue will be moving to Gallup, NM as a result of George accepting an offer he couldn't refuse.
A management position at Amigo Chevrolet & Toyota.
Congratulations to George on the promotion and change of scenery! Just don't forget to pack your winter coats...
In related news, Jeff will be buying their house in Henderson and renting to roommates to further bankroll the Jeff Bahr Financial Empire. Don't forget to add 5% per month in the rent you charge for a damage/maintenance reserve, Jeff. The maintenance of the house will now legally be solely your financial responsibility! I know a couple of lawyers I can recommend in Sacramento...
VICTOR GARCIA IN LAKE MEAD FISHING TOURNAMENT
Victor and his fishing partner have qualified for a fishing tournament at Lake Mead on the weekend of October 11th. I don't have the name for the tournament, but that doesn't matter so much as an announcement.
I was, however, able to snag a few shots of your competition:
Good luck fellas! By the looks of it, you're going to need it...
NEW BIRTHDAY PARTY DETAILS
Check out www.me-masbirthday.blogspot.com for new details about the surprise birthday party. We have additional information about photos that you need to remember.
Tom and Kate are now in the process of moving to their new home as mentioned last week. The new address, starting today Sept. 15, is:
2055 Paul Courter Way
Sacramento, CA 95835
(916) 928-0648
They mention that they will continue to have their cell phone numbers:
Tom - 916-342-3125
Katie 916-342-0436
and email addresses:
Tom - lawman2be@aol.com
Katie - kmhreid@aol.com, khappereid@hannabrophy.com
Send them a housewarming gift or friendly greeting when you get a chance!
GEORGE AND SUE GALLUP-BOUND
George and Sue will be moving to Gallup, NM as a result of George accepting an offer he couldn't refuse.
A management position at Amigo Chevrolet & Toyota.
Congratulations to George on the promotion and change of scenery! Just don't forget to pack your winter coats...
In related news, Jeff will be buying their house in Henderson and renting to roommates to further bankroll the Jeff Bahr Financial Empire. Don't forget to add 5% per month in the rent you charge for a damage/maintenance reserve, Jeff. The maintenance of the house will now legally be solely your financial responsibility! I know a couple of lawyers I can recommend in Sacramento...
VICTOR GARCIA IN LAKE MEAD FISHING TOURNAMENT
Victor and his fishing partner have qualified for a fishing tournament at Lake Mead on the weekend of October 11th. I don't have the name for the tournament, but that doesn't matter so much as an announcement.
I was, however, able to snag a few shots of your competition:
Good luck fellas! By the looks of it, you're going to need it...
NEW BIRTHDAY PARTY DETAILS
Check out www.me-masbirthday.blogspot.com for new details about the surprise birthday party. We have additional information about photos that you need to remember.
Monday, September 08, 2003
GRANDMA REID HAS A NASTY FALL
Grandma had a bad fall a few days ago, cutting, scratching and bruising herself pretty seriously in the process. She was taken to the hospital where's she's stayed for a few days to heal and feel better. I gave her a call and she was in pretty good spirits, all things considered. She hadn't looked at herself in a mirror yet and was a little afraid of the bruises/cuts, but I told her to tell anyone who asks that she went in for plastic surgery. She thought that was a good idea.
I believe she's back home now, but she did mention that the hospital has worked out an arrangement where a nurse or someone with similar credentials will now begin stopping by the house regularly to assist with anything. She felt pretty good about it, particularly since she understood that Medicare would cover all the costs. Here's hoping it gives her more peace of mind.
NEW BLOG FOR ME-MA'S BIRTHDAY
I've created a new website with news and announcements regarding Me-Ma's coming birthday. Check it out:
http://www.me-masbirthday.blogspot.com
HOME IMPROVEMENT IN A HURRY
Well, we learned over the weekend that several pieces of Jill's grandparents' furniture will be delivered to the house this week from Los Angeles. This includes a dining set and a monstrous, black wrought-iron baker's rack.
So, we switched into high gear and began painting the dining room. We bought a few sample color quarts from Rodda Paints and applied them yesterday. In the process we got rid of most of the dark brown trim that has plagued that room, well to be honest all of the house, and we'll be replacing that with white trim after painting is done this week.
What colors you ask? Well, that's a secret, but when we're all done, I'll post a photo.
All this follows on the heals of a leaky toilet that Jill's father and his friend Steven helped repair last week. The old wax seal had broken, so we had to replace it. The job was reasonably straightforward, but the dumb toilets that we have are all one piece so lifting was particularly heavy because the tank is not detachable. Otherwise, it was as smooth as silk once I had the right replacement screws from Home Depot.
TOM AND KATE SET TO MOVE
Tom emailed to say that he and Kate have been approved to rent a nearly new house in Sacramento. They're finally getting out of the apartment! Congratulations to them; they're going to love it. Should I tell Kate about Tom's yardwork ethic now or later?
Here's a pic of the house and a link to more information about it.
VACATION PICTURES ON THE WAY
Since there's over 400 digital photos from the vacation, it's taking quite a long time to give them all descriptive names and format them appropriately for viewing. By that, I mean many were taken with the camera turned sideways to capture a tall building, a tree or whatever. So I have to go through many of those and turn them rightside, etc.
But soon enough, I'll have some photo highlights posted on here and I'll write some about the countries and individual episodes. Patience...
Grandma had a bad fall a few days ago, cutting, scratching and bruising herself pretty seriously in the process. She was taken to the hospital where's she's stayed for a few days to heal and feel better. I gave her a call and she was in pretty good spirits, all things considered. She hadn't looked at herself in a mirror yet and was a little afraid of the bruises/cuts, but I told her to tell anyone who asks that she went in for plastic surgery. She thought that was a good idea.
I believe she's back home now, but she did mention that the hospital has worked out an arrangement where a nurse or someone with similar credentials will now begin stopping by the house regularly to assist with anything. She felt pretty good about it, particularly since she understood that Medicare would cover all the costs. Here's hoping it gives her more peace of mind.
NEW BLOG FOR ME-MA'S BIRTHDAY
I've created a new website with news and announcements regarding Me-Ma's coming birthday. Check it out:
http://www.me-masbirthday.blogspot.com
HOME IMPROVEMENT IN A HURRY
Well, we learned over the weekend that several pieces of Jill's grandparents' furniture will be delivered to the house this week from Los Angeles. This includes a dining set and a monstrous, black wrought-iron baker's rack.
So, we switched into high gear and began painting the dining room. We bought a few sample color quarts from Rodda Paints and applied them yesterday. In the process we got rid of most of the dark brown trim that has plagued that room, well to be honest all of the house, and we'll be replacing that with white trim after painting is done this week.
What colors you ask? Well, that's a secret, but when we're all done, I'll post a photo.
All this follows on the heals of a leaky toilet that Jill's father and his friend Steven helped repair last week. The old wax seal had broken, so we had to replace it. The job was reasonably straightforward, but the dumb toilets that we have are all one piece so lifting was particularly heavy because the tank is not detachable. Otherwise, it was as smooth as silk once I had the right replacement screws from Home Depot.
TOM AND KATE SET TO MOVE
Tom emailed to say that he and Kate have been approved to rent a nearly new house in Sacramento. They're finally getting out of the apartment! Congratulations to them; they're going to love it. Should I tell Kate about Tom's yardwork ethic now or later?
Here's a pic of the house and a link to more information about it.
VACATION PICTURES ON THE WAY
Since there's over 400 digital photos from the vacation, it's taking quite a long time to give them all descriptive names and format them appropriately for viewing. By that, I mean many were taken with the camera turned sideways to capture a tall building, a tree or whatever. So I have to go through many of those and turn them rightside, etc.
But soon enough, I'll have some photo highlights posted on here and I'll write some about the countries and individual episodes. Patience...
Thursday, September 04, 2003
WHAT DOES D.C. MAYOR-EXTRORDINAIRE MARION BERRY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS?
Quick blog update just because this link was so fascinating. Mortality statistics indicate that Washington D.C. in 2000 was more dangerous for a black man than war-time Iraq presently is, no matter how bad the U.S. and British media would have you believe. As they say, here's the "money quote":
According to this week's story from Scripps Howard News Service, there are 140,000 troops in Iraq, and there have been 286 fatalities from all causes since the war began in March (about 24 weeks ago). That gives us an annualized death rate of 443 per 100,000. Only about half of these deaths (147) were in combat, for a combat death rate of 228 per 100,000.
According to Center for Disease Control / National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, there were 21,836 young black men (age 18-30) in Washington DC in 2000, the latest year that mortality data is available. The total number of deaths in this group from all causes was 132, with 95 homicides. i.e. the death rate for this group was 604 per 100,000 and the murder rate was 435 per 100,000.
In other words, a young black male soldier from Washington DC would have been 36% more likely to die by staying at home than by serving in active duty in the Iraq war, and almost twice as likely to be murdered at home than to be killed in combat. Yes, that's horribly sad, but it puts a few things in perspective.
But you'd never hear the New York Times, Dan Rather or the BBC put Iraq mortality rates into true perspective as this data in fact does. They're all about anti-American hysteria over there. I'm particularly sensitive to this point because during our stay in Asia, according to the BBC World Service, the primary English-language news service on TV, Iraq was spinning into chaos, as was Liberia and Israel AND it was all the U.S.'s fault. The coverage was so biased, in fact, it made me think it a major miracle that England joined us in the campaign.
Anyway, just a tidbit of inarguable evidence that most news agencies are truly not serving us.
Quick blog update just because this link was so fascinating. Mortality statistics indicate that Washington D.C. in 2000 was more dangerous for a black man than war-time Iraq presently is, no matter how bad the U.S. and British media would have you believe. As they say, here's the "money quote":
According to this week's story from Scripps Howard News Service, there are 140,000 troops in Iraq, and there have been 286 fatalities from all causes since the war began in March (about 24 weeks ago). That gives us an annualized death rate of 443 per 100,000. Only about half of these deaths (147) were in combat, for a combat death rate of 228 per 100,000.
According to Center for Disease Control / National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, there were 21,836 young black men (age 18-30) in Washington DC in 2000, the latest year that mortality data is available. The total number of deaths in this group from all causes was 132, with 95 homicides. i.e. the death rate for this group was 604 per 100,000 and the murder rate was 435 per 100,000.
In other words, a young black male soldier from Washington DC would have been 36% more likely to die by staying at home than by serving in active duty in the Iraq war, and almost twice as likely to be murdered at home than to be killed in combat. Yes, that's horribly sad, but it puts a few things in perspective.
But you'd never hear the New York Times, Dan Rather or the BBC put Iraq mortality rates into true perspective as this data in fact does. They're all about anti-American hysteria over there. I'm particularly sensitive to this point because during our stay in Asia, according to the BBC World Service, the primary English-language news service on TV, Iraq was spinning into chaos, as was Liberia and Israel AND it was all the U.S.'s fault. The coverage was so biased, in fact, it made me think it a major miracle that England joined us in the campaign.
Anyway, just a tidbit of inarguable evidence that most news agencies are truly not serving us.
Monday, September 01, 2003
LABOR DAY WEEKEND IN HILLSBORO
Well, we're back in the States as of Saturday the 30th. Despite a 13-hour flight, we arrived (2:00 pm Saturday Pacific) before we departed (4:45 pm Saturday Hong Kong). Jet lag is definitely more of a factor on return as we've both undergone spells of serious fatigue randomly in the middle of the day. Jill's taking melatonin while I'm the control and there's no significant difference between our respective adjustment to Pacific time.
So, we've taken it extremely easy. Jill's parents are in town visiting, having brought the cats back up from Medford and now they're taking care of various chores necessary before they move to Hillsboro. They have a new cat, or kitten, Max, a furry black little thing that's probably the mellowest kitten anyone's ever seen. Even Sundaye hasn't had a problem with him.
In the coming days, I hope to post some photos from our trip with various information and other details. I promise not to make it boring; nobody likes wading through hundreds of vacation slides and photos. Plus, the system has only so much bandwidth. Just give me a little time... The new Minolta digital camera was a smashing success. The nearly 400 photos I took over vacation are nearly all very good quality with only a few blurry or poor photos. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
So, I'm about to go to bed to get rest for my first day back to work tomorrow. Before I get there, I have to go to downtown Hillsboro and take care of our water bill that somehow didn't get paid for August. I've looked through everything and I don't know that I ever received it to be perfectly honest. All the other utilities and bills were taken care of over the trip, so the water issue is peculiar indeed.
Well, I'd better hit the hay. Until later..
Well, we're back in the States as of Saturday the 30th. Despite a 13-hour flight, we arrived (2:00 pm Saturday Pacific) before we departed (4:45 pm Saturday Hong Kong). Jet lag is definitely more of a factor on return as we've both undergone spells of serious fatigue randomly in the middle of the day. Jill's taking melatonin while I'm the control and there's no significant difference between our respective adjustment to Pacific time.
So, we've taken it extremely easy. Jill's parents are in town visiting, having brought the cats back up from Medford and now they're taking care of various chores necessary before they move to Hillsboro. They have a new cat, or kitten, Max, a furry black little thing that's probably the mellowest kitten anyone's ever seen. Even Sundaye hasn't had a problem with him.
In the coming days, I hope to post some photos from our trip with various information and other details. I promise not to make it boring; nobody likes wading through hundreds of vacation slides and photos. Plus, the system has only so much bandwidth. Just give me a little time... The new Minolta digital camera was a smashing success. The nearly 400 photos I took over vacation are nearly all very good quality with only a few blurry or poor photos. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
So, I'm about to go to bed to get rest for my first day back to work tomorrow. Before I get there, I have to go to downtown Hillsboro and take care of our water bill that somehow didn't get paid for August. I've looked through everything and I don't know that I ever received it to be perfectly honest. All the other utilities and bills were taken care of over the trip, so the water issue is peculiar indeed.
Well, I'd better hit the hay. Until later..
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