Comments don’t seem to work on Erick’s last post, sooo….

Don’t expect to see him for a while. SC2 is like crack to that man.

I am going on an awesome ride soon (September 10th actually). Check out the site if you want to see what crazy people with bikes and too much money do with their free time.

Star Control 2!! Star Control 2!! Star Control 2!! I can’t believe I can download this for free! AWWWLLL RIGHT!

Go USA!

Journalists appear to respect Clinton nine times as much as they do Bush.

I think both should be (should have been) referred to as President, not Mister.

The US men’s rowing team won gold for the first time in 40 years. Go them! The Netherlands and Australia came in second and third, respectively.

I’m looking at installing some forum software. PBLang seems like decent software, we’ll see how it goes!

Strange they are.

Kissing Jessica Stein is way funny.

On that test, were you over “spam” or over “authentic”?

Here are things to look out for on the spam:

• threats are bad news: “failure to update your records will result in account suspension”.
• generally, giving them information you already gave them is bad news: “Click here and ID Verify Now”
  in the rare case all a companies computer dies and needs you to give them it again…that just wouldn’t happen…they wouldn’t have your email anyway.

• But if they did, they shouldn’t have you do something unusual like clicking a special link to give them information. For example: notice how here: http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/phishingtest/message_5/message5.htm it gives you instructions on how to login and where to go to change your credit card expiration date rather than an all too easy link.
• The two hardest examples are: message 9 and 4. Message 9 has a link to click for your tracking number…should you click it? Two things helping you is that its from Paypal and the link is advertised as usps…two different sites they would need to take over. Second, they don’t want you to give any information or anything, just check the status of your package. They aren’t saying “Click here and update your information to view your package status”, just “click here”.
• The US Bank Email is by far the best one (message 4). I guessed fraud. If your account was accessed, they should call you or send you and email telling you to call them. Using a computer to give them information somone stole on a computer is bad news. Phew! 10 out of 10 again. But that one is really difficult because the explanation is simple.

The most hilarious message 10. Please tell me you didn’t get that one wrong. Why would Visa lose your records?? And why would VISA contact you rather than the bank who issued your card?

Here is your next computer. Pretty sleek eh?