March 31, 2004

There were 4 posts published on March 31, 2004 (this is page 1 of 1).

Nice Try

From my inbox, a “phishing” scam. Never, ever send your credit card info via email.
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From: “Leila Staley”
Reply-To: “Leila Staley”
To: spam@siteseers.net
Subject: SUBJECT=Please update your citi information!
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:28:16 +0500

This message was sent by the Citi=AE Cards Email Verification Server to verify your email
address. You must complete this process by clicking on the link below and entering
in the small window your Citibank ATM full Card Number and Pin that you use on ATM.
(Please make sure that pop-up windows are enabled in your Internet Browser, otherwise
you will not be able to see the small window) This is done for your protection,
because some of our members no longer have access to their email addresses and
we must verify them.

To verify your e-mail address and access you Citibank account, click on the link below .
If nothing happens when you click on the link, just copy and past the link into address bar
of your web browser .

http://www.citibankonline.com:ac-KTtF4BD6y4TZlcv6GT5D@[URL Removed].com/_vti_cnk/mail_a.html

Thank you for using Citi.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS MESSAGE.

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North Carolina Twisters, Twenty Years Ago

News 14 Carolina, Time-Warner’s recently-hacked news channel, has two good accounts of the twenty-two strong tornadoes that swept the state on March 28th, 1984.

Reading parts one and two give a sense of just how far we’ve come in being able to predict them, though that doesn’t make them any less scary:

“Literally, the whole warning philosophy was that you didn’t want to issue a tornado warning unless you definitely knew that there was one on the ground,” said Jeff Orrock of the National Weather Service. “We really didn’t try to forecast severe weather back then, it was more of a reaction type thing.”

The weather this week is “unstable,” which can sometimes produce severe storms. We’re approaching the time of year when these storms can pop up. Makes me glad I’m a volunteer with Skywarn, the eyes and ears of the National Weather Service during severe weather.

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Slacker

Did I really just go over thirty hours without a post? You’d think I was busy or something.

I spent the evening as officer of the deck of the USS Hallie while Kelly went to her board meeting. The watch was mostly uneventful, except for the time my ship ran aground. I was finishing up my dinner (soup! yay!) with Hallie playing in the den. Then I heard a thump. I ran in to find her sprawled out on the underside of her step stool, its plastic edges pressing into her ribs and back.
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