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Oh geez. Spammers are getting more and more clever. I logged into my Yahoo email for the first time in ages, and found a bounce message. It was a forward from my Yahoo address to an AOL address with the same first segment (which did in fact use to be one of my AOL addresses but is no longer valid). The message itself, appended to the bounce notification, was a spam for mortgage loans. Now I know for an absolute fact that I never forwarded any such thing, and even if I did want to forward it, I would not have sent it to that address.

I think the spammers are taking addresses they find and then changing the domain names.

I wonder how they found the Yahoo address in the first place. I don't use it for anything, I've never even to my recollection used it to register for any websites. Its only purpose is as a backup if my main email should go down or be inaccessible to me for a prolonged period, and the last and only time that happened was at ACUS 2002. In March.

I hope this does not mean that my address is being spoofed for spam mailings! It's not a great loss if it is, I can drop the account easily enough, but I dislike the idea all the same.

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I'd like to redo my SouthPark icon; I have better software to scale it now. Does anybody have quick access to the website url?

Moving day

Here I am, back in my own cubicle at my own desk for the first time since July 12th. Kind of a strange feeling, looking around at all my own stuff that I used to be so accustomed to seeing that it no longer made much impression. It's all new again!

The move is likely to last only a couple of weeks, though. They evicted us from the conference room in order to use it for something else, but we may all go back in there once the two weeks of meetings are over.

Grrrr

DSL connection keeps dropping.

My userpics

I've been playing with my userpics lately. This is the current crop. I haven't deleted any, just added some new ones and changed the default. I don't really have definite "rules" about when I use what, and I haven't even used some of these at all yet, but these are my thoughts about it.
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Thinking about what I've tended to write about lately, I think I need a food-related icon. I'll have to give that some thought.

Yet more grrr!

Still fighting the DSL connection. It has been dropping about every two to five minutes all evening.