Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Lots of virus- and trojan-creators have become quite shifty and sneaky: they are naming their malware after genuine, important software already on our computers. For example, do you have lsass.exe or Isass.exe in your process files list? It’s very difficult to see the difference between the two, but one is a virus and one is [...]

Creeepy. As much as I like demographics, this still creeps me out: Google is using web searches to track the spread of the flu. In other words, spying. On people, who use Google, for web searches. And then making it into a huge spreadsheet, in a way. Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter [...]

My boys and I were strolling through Toys R Us yesterday (they had gift cards that were burning holes in their pockets). I dragged them away from thre Star Wars and Lego area so I could look at the electronics department (I’m a techno-geek). I saw some outstanding digitial photo frames on display. I was [...]

This is a very handy free tool I found at a home insurance website. It gives you the ability to get free home insurance quotes, etc, has articles about insurance policies and insurance in general, but when I was browsing the site I found a very handy home contents calculator, see here. Unfortunately, it’s in [...]

Here’s some very interesting news for webmasters and domain name holders in Australia: Netregistry, Australia’s leading domain name provider, has partnered… [with Netfleet] in a joint venture to expand and improve on… Netfleet domain trading site. “We see significant growth in this area”, says Larry Bloch, CEO of Netregistry. “Currently our efforts are focused on [...]

“No follow” has become the new html tag– a code phrase that tells search engines (the Google search engine, at least) to ignore the link. This is supposedly meant to reduce the passage of PageRank juice and improve the Search Engine Optimization of your website and the Internet in general. I use it from time [...]