haha sorry couldnt resist this lolcat!

Anyhow, my wonderful husband and webtech fixed my Community news box, so all of you can go back to leaving me little notes 🙂

Thanx all 🙂

Today I like to show you a poem that’s very dear to me. Unlike most poems on my blogsite, I did not wrote this one myself. I wanted to share it with you but not without the original author’s permission. So I went on a search for the original authors email address or other means of contacting her. That was not too hard. Off course I already had her name and the title of the poem. A few minutes after entering the information in Google I had found what I needed. Laryalee’s email address.

Then I wrote her a letter by email explaining that I wanted to publish her poem on my blog and why her poem was so dear to me. At the time that I had found her poem I was living with my daughter in a shelter for abused females. Not the most easy situation and I found a lot of comfort, strength and courage in her poem aside of that, I simply love lavender. I printed it and pinned it on the note board it in our room. This was years ago and my life has changed much since then, as you can read on my blog, but I always kept the poem close.

I was somewhat worried that she may not even read my email because the information I had found was a little bit outdated. Nonetheless a week later I received a heartwarming  reply from Laryalee. She was moved by the letter I had written her and  was please that I had let her know what the poem meant to me. I was lucky.. The email address I had found was indeed outdated but faith let her receive my letter anyway.  She told me she had started to write in a time of depression after her husband had died. Writing poetry helped her deal with it and I can completely relate to that. She gave me permission to publish her poem and any others if I wished to, here on my blog and share it with my readers. So here it is… Lavender Moments.

Lavender Moments

Lavender moments roll down through the greyness
that sometimes hangs heavily over our heads;
if we can just catch one and breathe in its essence,
our thoughts will go swinging on lavender threads.

Lavender moments are clear with a focus
that shows us the rush of this journey we’re on;
we suddenly see the importance of pausing
to savor the sunlight before it has gone.

Lavender moments are fresh with awareness
of all that is precious — the waking-up smile
of a loved one, the warm validations of friendship,
the markers we leave at the end of each mile.

They’re filled with an “ah”, like a soft-feathered murmur
that layers a hush on our workaday lives.
Our burdens feel lighter, our faith becomes stronger
whenever a lavender moment arrives.

© Laryalee Fraser

The original poem is located here on her own website where you can find many more of her poems and writings. Please do pay her site a visit if you love reading poetry. I am glad I could share this poem that meant so much to me, with all of you and maybe someday someone will read it on my blog and can find just as much comfort in it as I did. Thank you Laryalee, for writing this wonderful heartwarming poem and giving me the chance to share it with my readers.

Yes 100.000’s of hotmail accounts have been compromised. I know its old news but today we where affected by this personally and realized how real it is.

I was reading my email and got an email from my husband. O.o I was like O.o why would he send me an email? I checked the address and yes it was from him. I opened it and read it to find a spam message from some cellphone company. I immediately alerted my husband and he checked his hotmail account right away.

Once logged in he found a lot of returned emails from email addresses that has not been in use anymore. The message that had been send out to those was the same spam i had received.. with links to this site: http://www.mydosell.com. I do not know how save that site is so please be aware of that before you go there. That’s the reason why I did not made a clickable link to it.  That made us realize that someone indeed has been using his email for this spam. Offcourse he changed his pw immediately and I started to Google information on it.

Here’s what I found on the BBC website:

posted on Monday, 5 October 2009 20:02 UK

Thousands of accounts on web-based e-mail system Hotmail have been compromised in a phishing attack, software giant Microsoft has confirmed.

BBC News has seen a list of more than 10,000 e-mail accounts, predominantly originating from Europe, and passwords which were posted online.

To read the whole story click here.

I was not satisfied and wanted to know more and I found this at neowin.net.

An anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and most appear to be based in Europe. The list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists. Currently it appears only accounts used to access Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail have been posted, this includes @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @live.com accounts.

To read the whole story please go here.

I have read some more stories about this and  some sources said that also g-mail and yahoo and other web-based email sites  have been affected. So my advice for everyone with a web-based email is simple PLEASE change your pw immediately and IF you use that same pw for other accounts  then DO change those too AFTER you have changed your hotmail email pw. To be sure you may want to check on forehand if you are not by any chance affected by a keylogger or a trojan. So your pw does not get compromised again.

The Community news submission box aka shoutbox  on my page is broken. Its not doing what its supposed to do, which is, posting short submissions by my visitors o.o;. So I’m in the process of repairing it or replace it, whatever works XD. Untill thats replaced you guys simple got to reply ur comments to the posts instead.

Today I was reminded about a post I made a LONG time ago on another forum from a  game, and decided to make a simulair post right here in my blog.

A troll looks like you and me… untill they wake up and log on to the internet to start there daily trolling… Then they look like this:

Wikipedia Definition of a Troll:

“An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet-slang, is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chatroom, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.”

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This post is not directed at anyone… just per information.. No one should feel offended.. and its no use to flame me here.. because I simply wont respond to flames and if it is not a decent reply then I will simply remove your comment.

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What is a Troll?

An Internet “troll” is a person who delights in sowing discord on the Internet. He (and it is usually he) tries to start arguments and upset people. For some reason, they don’t “get” that they are hurting real people. To them, other Internet users are not quite human but are a kind of digital abstraction. As a result, they feel no sorrow whatsoever for the pain they inflict. Indeed, the greater the suffering they cause, the greater their ‘achievement’ (as they see it).

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