Sunday Was A Write Off
At 8.56 Sunday morning someone allegedly in India using Yahoo Mobile accessed my account and sent out god knows how many Spam emails to everyone in my address book. Luckily I woke up about 40 minutes later and logged on to see an inbox full of returned email and friends alerting me to the fact that something was amiss.
I quickly did what I knew I had to do. I went in and changed my password and I deleted my whole contacts list (just in case it was a nasty in the machine) and went ahead to try and get some answers.
My mind was put to rest a little that my machine was clean, my Anti Virus had run over night and nothing was flashing up with Spybot. Also looking at the emails that were return undelivered I noticed that the emails sent had my full name listed in the FROM column. This could only have been done from the web account as my Desktop mail client only has my first name listed.
from there on out my day was taken up with transferring all of the business that was dealt with by that Yahoo account (Groups, Flickr and Messenger) over to a totally new account. I am hoping that I managed to remember everything before I terminated the account. I am pretty gutted at losing that account. I had had it longer than I have been married. I used it absolutely EVERY day. Now I just have another Gmail account to add to the list seeing as Yahoo no longer offer POP service to non premium users.
Throughout the day, whilst trying to sort everything else I was fielding emails from friends informing me there was a problem and even a few abusive emails. You’d be surprised at how little some people know when they think they have the moral high ground. For the first time in a long time, I was actually upset by an email. OK I have had shitty emails in the past, but this one guy really went to town belittling me for something that was totally out of my hands. Oh well, I moved on secure in the knowledge that I have done everything in my power to make sure my PC and the Computers of my online friends are as safe as they can be when dealing with me. I can only do so much and I can only do it so fast. It’s now 02.40 Monday morning and I have been at it since a little after 9am Sunday… so screw it I am going to bed.
Until Next Time…
Playing With My Presents.
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope that you have had a good day or at the very least a relaxing one.
I spent it with family and it couldn’t have been better. I love seeing kids opening presents. The excitement in their eyes as each layer of wrapping paper comes off. The battles with the dreaded sticky tape. The mounds of wrapping paper grows with each present that passes, on to the next one with breathless excitement. I am just a big kid when it comes to Christmas.
Present wise I made out like a Doctor Who bandit. A GIANT classic series Dalek mug, The Brilliant Book 2012, The E-Space Trilogy Box Set and a set of Mini Doctor Who figures… all 11 of them (my nephew was most jealous.) I got a couple of non Doctor Who gifts too.. some new earrings (I felt like I needed a change after wearing a Gold Hoop for the past 15 years) A Goon Show CD and a totally unexpected (as in I didn’t even know they existed) Fish-Eye Lens for my iPhone. Yeah.. A separate attachable lens for an iPhone. Seeing as I am attached to my phone pretty much 24/7 and my growing addiction to Camera apps, this could quite possibly be one of the best thought out gifts. EVER.
Here is a picture of my Niece Jessica. I started out with the Fish-Eyed image and then imported it into Camera+. (I can’t quite remember the steps I took to get it looking like it did.. it’s one of the first times I have played about with the editing side of the app. I’ll pay more attention next time.)
Jess, Fish-Eyed at Christmas
I am looking forward to playing with the lens and my other apps, just to see what weird and wonderful images I can conjure up.
I am ending my Christmas Day with a very nice David Gilmour live recording recorded at the Royal Festival Hall from 2002. A very “smooth” way to end a great day.
Until Next Time…
Polaroid Smile
Feeling rather devilish. I am still trying to work out the kinks of posting using my iPhone. Normal postings will resume soon.
Until Next Time…
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