From the monthly archives:

May 2009

You may have heard that there’s a nasty PC worm making the rounds on the web, called Gumblar.cn, or more recently, Martuz.cn.  This worm can infect your computer by your merely viewing an infected website  – no clicking necessary, also known as a “drive-by” infection.
Users of Internet Explorer are particularly vulnerable, but all PC users [...]

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As Im trying to take it easy this Memorial Day weekend, I thought I’d share snippets of some of my favorite blog articles from the past week…
The always-informative Andrea Kalli posts about those pesky  Twitter background upload issues… and I thought it was just me! Andrea compares the two most common fixes.
Formspring’s blog featured a [...]

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Twitter Is Not EMail

by Mary on May 17, 2009

Most who know me also know I’m a huge Twitter fan.  It’s not only a social media, it’s a genuinely useful and flexible tool that can be adapted to almost any purpose.  As Twitter is everywhere in the media these days I notice new users (and some not-so-new users) venting about suffering another’s apparently bad [...]

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Website Spiffed-up for Summer…

by Mary on May 13, 2009

I’m putting the final touches on my latest re-decorating of this website (again). This site runs on WordPress, which makes it a snap to do…two hours start to finish. I was inspired by summer fabrics, beach umbrellas & the like… hence the stripes in sea-blues and aqua.
The new look  (and all the [...]

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If you have ever been reading your favorite blogs and wonder how their authors and commenters get those little square pictures to appear next to their comments, you should get yourself a Gravatar – (short for Globally Recognized Avatars).
Gravatars allow you to to link a little square image to your email address, so that whenever [...]

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