You've likely seen the re-postings of neo_prodigy's re-posting of a call to wear purple for a so-called Spirit Day. You may have wondered why I haven't re-posted it.

I was going to write something about it, but I've been swamped with stuff. Luckily for me, xanath had already summed up most of my thoughts. (I found it because neo_prodigy had re-posted it.) (Yes, I'm ( Read more... )

bifemmefatale's daughter ran away on Monday. This post has pictures and details. If you are in the midwestern US, please take a look.

She's been found and Mom is en route to get her!

I unashamedly lifted this from MC Frontalot's Dorknotes. It's okay. He probably hates my 'blog anyway.

( You'll have to follow the cut to read it. It's longish, and this way I get to remain unashamed because I'm making you work for it. )

NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, has released an alert today about a new phishing scam targeting people and businesses who use direct deposit/ACH transfers.

There's an e-mail being sent out to individuals and businesses claiming to be from NACHA, saying that a transaction failed. According to the NACHA website,

NACHA itself does not ( Read more... )

If you, for any reason, want to take me off your friends list, please do so. I will not stalk you across the internet, or talk trash about you because of it (if I have good reasons otherwise, all bets are off). If you want to take me off your friends list, but you can't think of a reason, I've compiled a short list. I'm sure I could go on with ( Read more... )

Hopefully, you are all clever enough that you wouldn't be drawn in by this, but just in case . . .

There is apparently a scam related to on-line filing of income taxes. I don't know much about it, but an e-mail just went around the office saying, FYI: I was told that there is a scam now that after you go online to file your tax return you will ( Read more... )