A Google Translation from an Israeli paper, posted 19 minutes ago. Looks like the KGB has it in for more than LJ.

KGB Online: the Russian secret service against Gmail, Hotmail, SkypeDomestic intelligence chief, who succeeded the notorious organization, claims that you encrypt the information on online services could harm the security of Russia - ( Read more... )

As a note, lj_maintenance has a map showing the IPs of all the computers that have been used in the DDoS attacks. If you want to check and see if your computer has been used as a "zombie bot," go to http://whatismyipaddress.com/, copy your address, and then check it against the list in the sidebar of ( Read more... )

From The Moscow TimesRussia, the country's main platform for uncensored political discussion, recovered Tuesday from its biggest-ever hacker attack - which bloggers said could not have been staged without state resources ( Read more... )

I just got a call from a credit card about a recent payment to Livejournal. Apparently the company thought that LJ was a scam and that the card had been stolen because LJ is owned by a Russian company ( Read more... )

Go here:

http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/?lang=en

This is Google's Person Finder. In the aftermath of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan Friday, Google has launched a Japanese, Chinese and English-language Person Finder tool to help victims and ( Read more... )

How do you delete a line created by three asterisks (used as a scene break) and a return? I can't delete the stupid thing. I know it's some sort of useless paragraph border but that doesn't help, unfortunately.

Today's Google logo is the word "Google" turning into bubbles. Today is supposed to be Google's birthday, so the bubbles are probably balloons ( Read more... )

To render the little Facebook/Twitter boxes invisible (so that you can't even accidentally cross-post), you can either:

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How do you get MS Word to NOT draw a line at the end of a page but instead just break and start a brand new page? The line irritates me--I want to see what I'm writing as separate pages. But I can't set it up that way. And the formatting and help sections of Word 2007 are singularly unhelpful ( Read more... )

ETA: Have called the computer guy. He should be by, he says, around four or five this afternoon ( Read more... )