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Cyber Attacks

After the round of attacks on websites around the ‘Net, including the White House, the Pentagon, and various other sites, the latest report is that personal computers will get hit next. So far, I’m up and running, and haven’t experienced any problems anywhere on the Internet at all. Moral: keep your computers up to date with the latest OS patches, run a good anti-virus and anti-spyware program and use a good firewall. At least, that works for me.

Speaking of viruses, the Red Sox strain has fallen to the latest Yankee immunization, to use a pretty bad metaphor. The Yanks have been relentless, going 33-17 over their last 50 games and have caught the Sox for first place in the AL East. Like I said in an earlier post, I’ve got a good feeling about this team–they’re loose, good in the clutch, have a decent rotation and are showing sparks of greatness in the bullpen. In addition, they seem to have an undefinable “togetherness,” a la the great team of ’98. There’s still half the season to go and anything can happen, but, right now, everything looks very positive.

I bought some great Thai curry paste while I was in Nong Khai, and I made a big batch of Chicken Curry With Rice today. Yummmmm, tastes great. Wish you were here to enjoy a bowl with me. Wanna join me for some? I’ve made enough to have even more later.

Security Alert

From time to time, I’ll send on the information I have about any new security problems with windows, viruses, etc., to those of you who read this blog and don’t have access to the information. You SHOULD be aware of these issues without my help, but that is not always possible. At any rate, check here for what it’s worth.

Two new ones today: One is about fake Microsoft Security. Don’t click on any links in email that purport to send you to the MS Update website.

The other is that Microsoft will provide a variety of patches, some of them critical, this coming Tuesday.

Again, in my humble opinion, if you are using the Internet Explorer browser, you might be better served by switching to Mozilla’s Firefox, which you can download here. It’s much safer, for now, than IE and it’s fun to use.

It’s another beautiful spring day in Andong, with temperatures forecast to be in the mid 70s. I want to try to get off a few more job apps, but I also want to take another long bicycle ride–after I watch the Yanks-Orioles game on the computer. More later.