My mom (Poppy’s Grannie C) has visited us for a week and a half and it couldn’t have been timed better. With all of Poppy’s recent accomplishments, it was kind-of like meeting a whole new grandchild… at least a new set of things to watch out for when poppy-sitting.
Mom painted 80% of a wonderful mural in Poppy’s room, which I get to finish up over the next week or so (looking forward to doing a photo-synth of it, when done).
Poppy is over seven months old now. 223 days. She’s old.
In her first week of being 6 months old, she started getting her first tooth and started crawling. She quickly realized that through crawling is reliable, it’s not as great as pulling up to standing and trying to coax someone or anything into keeping her upright while she staggers towards any object of her desire. Basically, we spend a lot of time with her holding onto our fingers as we stoop over and walk her around… she sits when she’s near something she wants.
A recent report from Don Jackson at SecureWorks (dated March 20 2007) examines a new Trojan and provides some alarming insights on Internet Identity Theft. It is worth reviewing this case carefully to understand how sophisticated modern identity theft schemes have become, and how difficult it can be to investigate and prevent them.What makes this Trojan interesting is that it:
is installed automatically simply by visiting an infected web site is invisible to the user is often missed by anti-virus software is able to steal identity information even if it is encrypted using https efficiently collects large amounts of information and sends it to a “mother ship” provides an interface for fraudsters to easily purchase the stolen data is been used to collect thousands of login credentials at major banks and government agencies has not been shut down is only one of many such programs that are now offered as kits source: http://www.
Anita has been going to school for her whole life. She’s 28, and she’s gone to school k-12, and then college for 9 years after that. She got her PharmD from OSU and became a Dr. of Pharmacy… but all of that is for naught without passing a national board and a state law board.
Well – she’s passed both on her first attempt and is now, a bonafide (licensed) Pharmacist.
Why You Should Turn Gmail’s SSL Feature On Now
Let’s talk security and why you should take advantage of Gmail’s recent SSL feature, and why you might want to be careful using other non-SSL webmail services.
But first, make sure your connection is secured using SSL.
How do you know a connection is secured by SSL? The handy “s” after “http” will tell you. For example, https://mail.google.com is encrypted while http://mail.
Poppy is growing up way too quickly. Anita cried a couple nights ago
watching her sleep, and I can certainly understand… She hasn’t
technically doubled in size, but she seems like she is at least twice
as big as she was at birth and many hundred fold more
capable/developed/skilled/aware.
She’s babbling a lot, starting this weekend and she has a second tooth just under the surface ready to come out.
Poppy is a feirce 6 months now. She is sitting and crawling and talking a lot (though still mostly in vowels only).
What’s funny is to see her grab ahold of something (anything) and shake it.
“What does this do? How about if I beat it against the floor for 5 minutes? hmmm… What about after another 5 minutes?”
She is so much fun to watch and interact with… all she’s doing is sitting or crawling and violently shaking/beating/eating whatever is in her little hands… but that’s more than enough to keep us watching.
I’ve gone for 72 hours without checking my email or getting online. Wonders will never cease.
We’ve been finishing up packing and moving into our new house!
As such – things are of course – crazy and i’m beaten down (in fact, I
might have very very mild heat stroke) – but we’re both really happy to
be here and get this house… we’ll be getting things setup as we can
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Poppy slept with her papa and walked with her mama And played with her bear and in her crib And then Poppy and Anita and several other friends went to Tyler Park for the afternoon
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