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Late Autum List
Nov. 14th, 2008 09:08 am* I love the word autumn more than the word fall, but fall is more usable
* The Elks are coming down from the mountains en masse, winter is coming
* Is anyone else experiencing trouble with Yahoo mail? I've had my yahoo email for 6 years, and now I've been unable to log into my email for 2 days. I have another work related email addy, but this is irritating and disconcerting, since everyone and their dog uses my sealwhiskers account, and since I have a LOT of valuable data in there. I've written their support team, but no answer yet.
* The Russian Trojan that infected my computer a month ago is trying new methods to sneak into people's computers. Since I've read up on these guys, I know some of their incarnations, and the creepy thing with it is not only how vicious it is if you get it (NO anti-virus programs that I know of can beat it, I had to wipe my harddrive clean), the real creepy & vicious factor is how these Russian hackers have created whole websites that look legitimate in order to infect your computer. Right now for instance, they use the windows logo to try to sell something called "Security 09", an anti virus program that looks like a windows program and that will infect everything you have. They lurk around on perfectly normal websites that you visit, and then you get somewhat legitimate looking and windows logo'd security question from them.
* In nicer news, I met a long time LJ friend from Australia. The lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alecto23 came to visit for a couple of days, and we dragged her around a lot, but she was very gracious in spite of this. In retrospect I should have cooked Swedish meatballs for her instead of serving up a junk-food orgy. It's funny how you, after being lj-friends for years and years, really feel like you know eachother to some extent, that you click. You then warn yourself that this perhaps will not be the case in real life, to not up the expectations, but then, when you meet, you realize she really IS an old friend! Certain steps that carve out a friendship have already been taken and the shortcut to the deep and personal is already there, in place. It's gratifying and fascinating.
*tooticky and usuakari, we thought about you guys a lot too. Apparently I need to get rich and go to Australia, soon. I'm on it.
* Today, might be the first true day of winter, we have a thin layer of snow here in Boulder, and it's been snowing even more up in the mountains.
* I'm going to Sweden for 2 weeks right after Thanksgiving. I'll be there between the 30th of November and the 15th of December. First Uppsala and then Skåne.
* The Elks are coming down from the mountains en masse, winter is coming
* Is anyone else experiencing trouble with Yahoo mail? I've had my yahoo email for 6 years, and now I've been unable to log into my email for 2 days. I have another work related email addy, but this is irritating and disconcerting, since everyone and their dog uses my sealwhiskers account, and since I have a LOT of valuable data in there. I've written their support team, but no answer yet.
* The Russian Trojan that infected my computer a month ago is trying new methods to sneak into people's computers. Since I've read up on these guys, I know some of their incarnations, and the creepy thing with it is not only how vicious it is if you get it (NO anti-virus programs that I know of can beat it, I had to wipe my harddrive clean), the real creepy & vicious factor is how these Russian hackers have created whole websites that look legitimate in order to infect your computer. Right now for instance, they use the windows logo to try to sell something called "Security 09", an anti virus program that looks like a windows program and that will infect everything you have. They lurk around on perfectly normal websites that you visit, and then you get somewhat legitimate looking and windows logo'd security question from them.
* In nicer news, I met a long time LJ friend from Australia. The lovely
alecto23 came to visit for a couple of days, and we dragged her around a lot, but she was very gracious in spite of this. In retrospect I should have cooked Swedish meatballs for her instead of serving up a junk-food orgy. It's funny how you, after being lj-friends for years and years, really feel like you know eachother to some extent, that you click. You then warn yourself that this perhaps will not be the case in real life, to not up the expectations, but then, when you meet, you realize she really IS an old friend! Certain steps that carve out a friendship have already been taken and the shortcut to the deep and personal is already there, in place. It's gratifying and fascinating.*
tooticky and usuakari, we thought about you guys a lot too. Apparently I need to get rich and go to Australia, soon. I'm on it.* Today, might be the first true day of winter, we have a thin layer of snow here in Boulder, and it's been snowing even more up in the mountains.
* I'm going to Sweden for 2 weeks right after Thanksgiving. I'll be there between the 30th of November and the 15th of December. First Uppsala and then Skåne.
