My blog software (Wordpress) was full of well known holes and it was well past the time I should have updated my installation.
After reading that scammers have started to exploit these holes, I decided I’d better update now rather than after a 12 year-old pwnd me. If this post is successful, it means the update has gone well.
Dear Jennifer Williams of 6235 bears bluff road Wadmalaw Island, SC:
Please stop forging my email address. I spoke with someone at the phone number you left all over the Internet (along with my email address) (843)442-9481, but he hung up after I asked him to ask you to stop forging my email address.
I’ve had my email address for well over 10 years. I like my email address. It is a pain in the ass when you and people like you forge my email address for the flood of get rich schemes you always seem to leave in your wakes.
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The following is a list of emails I started to receive after you thought it would be a good idea to submit my email addresses to the scams that entertained you this morning:
There were probably more pieces of spam, but I added the scammer’s address blocks to my anti-spam appliance when they started to repeat after 15 minutes — and also suggested that they be added to a global spammer list.
You may also receive a call from Bellsouth.net, because you left your IP address (70.144.38.63) with all of these scammers, conveniently enabling me to identify your ISP.
Who is this Jennifer Williams and why is she forging my email address for all these scams?
Please stop signing up for get rich scams with my email address and get a job or something.
I saw this out of my home office window tonight and had to grab a camera and get a clearer look.
Amazingly lit clouds 1
Amazingly lit clouds 2
I’m guessing that the sun light is blocked from below by the mountains to our west leaving radiant tops — pretty incredible. If I wasn’t half-naked when I ran out to get these photos, I would have run to the park with my EF 20mm 1:2.8 wide-angle to capture the whole row of clouds.
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My mother and I did our annual trip to New Mexico a couple of weeks ago. Though our trips are always relaxing, our primary interest is in visiting all the galleries we can fit into our time there and seeing great art (a close second would be finding and eating great food!).
The following works found their way into my focus and into my collection:
Yei Mask Sculpture by Elijah John, son of David K. John. This piece was part of a show of artwork sold to support his travel to China in search of his Navajo roots. My mother has one of his father’s Yei Masks in her collection.
Three new miniature seed pots created by Julio Mora. I met Julio during the 2005 Santa Fe Indian Market, at the Frank Howell Gallery where he was working as part of a Mata Ortiz potter demonstration. The piece he was working on that weekend became the first of his works in my collection.
A seed pot in the Mimbres style by Acoma potter Rachel Concho, sister of Carolyn Concho, who’s works are already in my collection.
The highlight of my art buying spree: "Observational Notes on Lepus" by Timothy Chapman, recently featured in Southwest Art magazine. The second my mother and I saw this painting, we both knew it would be mine. I love this piece.
These pieces are also now included in my Yallery collection. (and yes, I do collect rabbit art)
The worst part of our trip has to be our stay at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, where virtually anything that could go wrong, went wrong. My mother and I each paid for a night of our stay in Santa Fe at this Hilton — by the end of our stay, my mother received her money back and I received a credit of the 35,000 HHonors points I paid plus an additional 40,000 “oops sorry” points. Thanks to the manager for trying to put things right.
