My T-shirt front is back up to 105 rows, a bit past where I had to frog before.
I have completed the leaves (That’s the part that looks like a zebra face) and begun the blossoms (which may end up looking like the zebra’s hat).
April has been an irritating month in a lot of ways. In addition to assorted health problems we have also had assorted electronic quandaries. The CD burner is now working — but apparently at the cost of being able to hear DVDs played on the computer. We have yet to find a perfect legal music service. At work, we have new hardware which won’t work properly, in much the same ways that the new CD burner wouldn’t. These are all small things.
The bigger thing is that someone has been hijacking my screen name and using it to send spam and IMs linking to pornographic sites. This keeps happening in spite of frequent changes of password and various kinds of vigilance. This morning I had a message telling me that my internet account had been suspended for violation of terms, and I had to answer security questions and change my password yet again.
I particularly dislike this because my screen name is our family name, not something anonymous.
This has been my screen name since 1997 or so, and I have used it on genealogical message boards. This is a thing where you can post questions about family history mysteries, and eventually someone who knows the answer may see it — I actually got a response to a question just this morning. So I don’t want to give up and change servers. And I suppose I could change servers and have the problem begin all over again.
We have firewalls and virus protection and all that stuff. I’ve reported the problem to the fraud squad at my server and spoken with them on the phone.
So I guess the point of this post is to say — if you get a nasty message purporting to come from me, don’t think that it does. And if you have any suggestions for what to do, I’d love to hear them.
Your T-shirt is looking great! Sorry to hear about your computer troubles though. Hope you can get it all sorted out soon.
You have left me in the dust as fast as you are working on that t shirt. Its coming along nicely. I like how your knitting in your design. I’m not that brave yet. Some day though. About the computer problems, we had a problem one time where some kinda virus or whatever was using our address book to send out the smut to everyone in our address book. It was awful. People thought we were sending it to them and we didn’t even know what the heck was going on. So some one said to put as the first thing in your address book like a line of 00000000’s or **********’s. Then they said it won’t be recognized as an address and will stop there before going on down to the other addresses. You might give that a try. Also, be very careful about giving your password or other personal information to answer an email claiming to be from a reliable source. It could very well be a very talented hacker disguised as the real thing and then they will have all your personal info. I would call the company first and take care of it that way. We had someone sending us an email from aol that looked completely official. It was actually a copy of aol’s terms with slight changes to make it look lagit but they were trying to get us to give them our personal passcodes etc. It was a hoax and we reported it to aol. So be careful when answering any emails that say they are from your internet provider asking you for personal info.
As Dweezy says, sounds like you’ve got a computer virus. Do you keep your virus definitions updated? (They usually need to be updated every month)