Due to recent additions to the services offered by Blogger, I've now gained the ability to post pictures to this BLOG. This picture is merely the first experiment with that capability. I hope to get a bit more sophisticated with the function as time goes by, but for the moment, I'm pleased with the results.
This site, Antiphishing.org, answers the question, «What is Phishing?»
For anyone who is serious about using the computer in his daily life, and for quite a few who aren't, Google is the first place they turn to find answers to almost any question, from the trivial to the profoundly serious. Google has, in fact, made the information available on the web almost instantly accessible to us all. And because so many of us turn to Google to get answers, advertisers are willing to pay large sums of money to Google for the opportunity to present their products to all those eyes.
On Monday night at about 10:00 PM, I received a call from Ron Klieman's wife, Charlotte, notifying me that he had succumbed to the battle he had been waging with cancer for the last year. He died in his own bed with his wife at his side, holding his hand. Services are planned for Thursday night at Gentry-Griffey Funeral Chapel in Fountain City, TN, at 7:00 PM. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 PM Thursday before the service.
BellSouth, the client our company supports, has decided to give all of their customer service business (not their tech support business) to our competitor, a group called TAG (_T_he _A_nswer _G_roup). This means massive change for our group of about 100 people, with probable layoffs for a large percentage of them/us. Ostensibly the cause wasn't our team's performance but cost. TAG was cheaper than we are.
In a Pinch, PowerPoint Loads the Carousel:
«While Powerpoint is commonly thought of as a business tool used to display mundane graphics like sales charts, it works quite well for showing off photos.»
Tonight my friend, Josh Yonce, and I experimented with Windows XP's Remote Assistant feature. It provides one the ability to give control of his computer to a trusted friend so that that friend can offer help when needed on the other person's computer. This feature sure facilitates easy resolution of simple problems because you can see the remote computer's screen over the network while you are tackling the problem. At the same time there is the ability to communicate in real time on the instant messaging screen.
If you are tempted to participate in and/or forward the currently-circulating email about avoiding purchasing gas on May 19th, I would suggest you read this post at Snopes.com.
Last night Patrick Ahern and I engaged in our first Skype phone call. It was a 9 minute conversation from here in Knoxville to his home in San Diego. I was using a headset by Plantronics, and he was using the mic and the speakers on his computer. The voice quality was amazingly good, but because he wasn't using a headset, I could hear my own voice faintly picked up by his mic, since his speakers were a part of the ambient sound on his end. Although it isn't necessary to speak and then say «over» so the other person knows to go ahead and speak, there is a tendency to overtalk one another, something most of us probably do when talking on a «normal» telephone. But I suspect that more practice in using it would help to overcome that tendency. If you should decide to join in the FREE experiment with Skype, my user name on the service is (surprise!, surprise!) perrynelson. Add me to your list of contacts and let's talk.
I try to keep my home clean, but often I fail. My dedication to keeping my electronic house in order is probably greater than is my dedication to my physical home, but even with the electronic one, I often fail. So every once in a while, it's time to clean house. That has been this weekend's project.
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