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The Beach

5 Sep

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Driving along the Pacific Coast highway 101, Clark and I looked at each other lovingly holding hands and quietly said “this is the life!”

We have begun what we hope to maintain as a weekly, or every other week tradition of visiting the Beach on Saturday. We both feel recharged for the work week and an intense rejuvination of Spirit after breathing in the Ocean air and soaking in the sun.

We both feel so blessed to live so close to the beach. What a wondeful gift God has given us to help us enjoy life!

This week we visited Carpenteria,CA which is right next door to Santa Barbara. It is quoted as being the “safest beach in the world”. It sure was beautiful! Also had a lot of funny sights included. One being a teenage girl who literally could not keep her pants up in the waves! Clark and I were rolling in laughter! She’d walk a few steps and then a wave would hit her and as it descended, so would her pants exposing her cheeks! Hahaha!!! Happened so many times, I wondered why she’d even, or anyone for that matter, bother playing in the waves wearing a two piece. Haha!!!!

Another really fun sight was a mother and her two daughters playing jump rope with a large piece of seaweed. Really cool! Another was a 7.5ft tall man playing horseshoes with a 4ft man. Later that guy put the other guy on his shoulders and walked out into the sea. After awhile I felt I was witnessing a part of a science fiction novel or movie scene. It was thoroughly enjoyable for Clark and I to just sit in our Beach chairs, the waves crashing up to our toes and just people watch. :-) We also had fun boogie boarding in the waves.

Clark also made friends with a seagull who all but ate bread out of his hands. I had a blast fishing for cool unusual rocks and shells. I was very successful. :)

As per tradition, Clark and I got an ice-cream cone and blissfully drove along the coastline back home.

I’m in love! :D

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How to Prevent Email Viruses

5 Aug

The other day I received an email from the Social Security Administration. This caught my attention as you might imagine, and I double checked to see the return address. It looked legit, but the one thing that just didn’t set well for me was how sparse the email looked overall.

So I went to File >> Info >> Properties in my Outlook 2010 :

 

Within the email header, I could see the actual address of the sender of the email :

The lesson of this is that even if the sender looks legit, doesn’t mean the email is. If you feel at all suspicious, check out the header information of the sender. Here are a few links to some tutorials on how to locate the header information in your email program:

Things to look for when reviewing your email inbox:

  • Email from family or friends, normally without a subject (but sometimes does have a subject) and the only thing in the body of the email is a URL link. DO NOT CLICK IT! Delete the email!
  • Email from a random person, with a .zip file attached: DO NOT OPEN IT – delete the email!
  • Don’t understand the language of the email? Don’t read it – delete it!
  • Email that appears from a legit source, for example: Your Bank, Facebook, MySpace, etc, DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS IN THE EMAIL! DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHED FILES!!! Delete the email and go to the site manually yourself in the browser. It’s a common scam to “appear” like the “real site” in the return address and through the body of the email. More times than not it’s SPAM.

Keep in mind, email from “friends” or “family” with a hyperlink and very little body text to the email – isn’t necessary from them. Be sure these people include the reason why to click on the link . You could open a new email and respond back to them to confirm the email was legit before clicking the link they provide.


If you have any personal experiences, please share in a comment below. :)

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Fixed: Google Secondary Search Broken in Firefox!

3 Jul

This morning I was doing some Google Searching in Firefox. It didn’t take me long to discover that doing a second search wasn’t working. In fact, even the second-level search tools under “More Tools” won’t work either. Was Google broken? or was it Firefox?

A little experimentation led to two interesting fixes (or workarounds).  First of all, this appears to be a “Google in Firefox” issue.  IE and Chrome work fine.  So, the two fixes are:

  1. Log into your Google Account.  It seems the broken search functionality is only an issue when you are logged out (as I was).  So log into your Gmail account or any other account you may have with them and voila!  Secondary searches work again!
  2. Rather than going to http://www.google.com, instead start your search at http://74.125.43.147/  This is Google’s IP address and, for some reason when you start your session their, all subsequent searches and second-level search tools work fine.  Go figure!  If your homepages is set to Google (as mine is), be sure to change the URL in your browser options as well.

This almost appears to be a problem with Google — not Firefox — as Google search fails accross the board in multiple versions of Firefox (old and new) and on multiple operating systems, including Mac.  While we wait for Firefox to release a fix (or Google to start playing fair??  ;) ) at least this is a temporary solution.

Anyone else experience this phenomena in Firefox this morning?  Let me know if this solution fixes your broken second level searches in Firefox.

If you found this helpful, feel free to donate to my new laptop fund!  :)  

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Phone Dump

1 Jul

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More pictures from our morning walk, a pic of me and a cute one of Tiny in the sink :)

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