One-gigabyte SD card, used as a backup for the Treo smartphone, gone from its usual place on the desk. Rediscovered a week later in the pocket of a freshly dry-cleaned shirt.
Being the adventures of an American journalist and obscure science-fiction writer who has mysteriously been transported to Paris.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Nowhere does it say this cannot be dry-cleaned
One-gigabyte SD card, used as a backup for the Treo smartphone, gone from its usual place on the desk. Rediscovered a week later in the pocket of a freshly dry-cleaned shirt.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
What's your type?
Authors wax eloquent on their favorite fonts.
Mine is Dark Courier, the evil twin of Courier. Maureen McHugh made the introductions, and it does the job. Still, I really miss the sans-serif Letter Gothic font I had in my IBM Selectric II. I can simulate it on my computer, but it's just not the same, damn it.
Mine is Dark Courier, the evil twin of Courier. Maureen McHugh made the introductions, and it does the job. Still, I really miss the sans-serif Letter Gothic font I had in my IBM Selectric II. I can simulate it on my computer, but it's just not the same, damn it.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
New Year's rip-off
Spammers, phishers and other miscreants are increasingly inventive. A couple days ago, one of my relatives forwarded to me an e-mail warning me of a virus threat. In this case, the threat is bogus and the warning itself is the scam, although I don't know what purpose it serves. Maybe it's the modern-day equivalent of calling the corner store and asking if they have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can.
Today I got what looks like a PayPal receipt for the purchase of a cellphone for $474.99. There was a helpful link I could click if I wanted to dispute the amount. If I were to click on the link, it would squirt my PayPal log-in information to the scammers.
I get dozens of these a year, although this was the slickest so far. My e-mail program, Thunderbird, flagged it as a possible scam, but even without the warning I wouldn't have been taken in because we all know never to click on the links in a commercial e-mail or one from an unknown sender, don't we?
If you have any doubts, Google some of the unique phrases in the e-mail. The purported vendor on this one was LWPELECTRONICS. The phone was being sent to Bill Chang, 202 N Magnolia Dr., Saco ME. Google that address and you get 961 hits, nearly all of them warnings about the scam. Now, with this, make that 962 hits.
Today I got what looks like a PayPal receipt for the purchase of a cellphone for $474.99. There was a helpful link I could click if I wanted to dispute the amount. If I were to click on the link, it would squirt my PayPal log-in information to the scammers.
I get dozens of these a year, although this was the slickest so far. My e-mail program, Thunderbird, flagged it as a possible scam, but even without the warning I wouldn't have been taken in because we all know never to click on the links in a commercial e-mail or one from an unknown sender, don't we?
If you have any doubts, Google some of the unique phrases in the e-mail. The purported vendor on this one was LWPELECTRONICS. The phone was being sent to Bill Chang, 202 N Magnolia Dr., Saco ME. Google that address and you get 961 hits, nearly all of them warnings about the scam. Now, with this, make that 962 hits.
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