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Things are not going well in Salt Lake City. I may not be posting much the next few days. Spammers can all go hang. The rest of you, please tawk amongst yourselves.
UPDATE: 2 days later, Mom passed away. 

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Whoa. Last month I cracked the lid open a little, and I'm still not sure why. My stats page logged 9,030 unique visitors. Probably 8,999 of those were spambots and trackback zombies, but still. Apparently the mere mention of H.R. 4437 drove a lot of visitors here. Huh? All I did was link to an [...]

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So here's what's going on this week around here:

Busy at work, but not as crazed as last week.
Thinking about sick friends and considering how best to help
Keeping only half an eye on the news
Fooling around with iPod more (David got me a dock!)
Putting off on uploading more photos to Flickr
Getting ready to travel again Real [...]

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My husband David's been getting a lot of spam emails, and so have I. The trickiness is that we can't just mark the emails "spam" and forget it, because they're spoofed to appear to come from our domain. They're getting stopped, but we need to figure out some filters to refuse them completely.
It's still [...]

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Oh, this is truly funny. I got a lot of fake "your computer has been compromised and is being used to send spam" emails. Why do I know they are fake? Here's a typical "alert."
Dear user of midrange.com, Your email account has been used to send a huge amount of junk e-mail during this [...]

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