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Windowseat replied to the Windowseat's View board. 12:07 AM

Re: Need to vent

Yeah, because at my former places of business, that would NOT be allowed. Once you're no longer employed. . . .

Anywhere I've worked, I gather that my email account was blown to bits three seconds after I closed up. In fact, they [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Apple User's Group board. 12:01 AM

Re: Checking for hacks

Yes. And one went to my main account. The "cannot deliver" messages went to Yahoo!, and, as I said, I recognized them. A couple of relatives, someone from the Fool, Royal Bank of Scotland (phishing attempt), Royal Bank of Canada (phishing [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Windowseat's View board. 10:58 PM

Re: What were they thinking?

Here's a link to the article written by Steve Gleason.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130617/steve-gle...

Nancy

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Windowseat posted to the Windowseat's View board. 8:35 PM

What were they thinking?

I don't know how to describe this. But I'll explain, and maybe some of you have some ideas.

First, some background.

A few years ago a guy named Steve Gleason played for the New Orleans Saints. In 2006 he blocked a punt that led to [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Pet Lovers board. 7:43 PM

Re: 0x6a74 - My Blog Post

An update.

When I read that there was no immediate home for Riki I emailed Angel May and said I would take her if there were no other possibilities. I couldn't bear the idea of her going to a shelter.

At this point she does have a [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Pet Lovers board. 4:26 PM

Re: 0x6a74 - My Blog Post

AM, thank you so much for writing that post. I know what it cost you in time and pain.

We loved him here. In one of his early posts he made a comment about squirrels. Then he added Moose. So I responded with another Rocky and Bullwinkle [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Apple User's Group board. 4:02 PM

Re: Checking for hacks

I'm fairly positive they had access to my account. Most of the names it picked up were from emails I had sent to banks, telling them about phishing schemes. My brother and a TMF member were also included in the haul.

But what was interesting [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Apple User's Group board. 12:44 PM

Re: Checking for hacks

You post this on an Apple Board, so I expect you are using an Apple PC. If that is correct, I do not believe you have a virus. While I believe it is technically possible for an Apple virus to exist, I have not heard of any such beast actually [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:40 AM

Re: OT My Restaurant Rules

In one of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares he hands the menu back to the server and asks for a clean one.

Nancy

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Windowseat posted to the Apple User's Group board. 9:42 AM

Checking for hacks

Hi,

My Yahoo email account was hacked the other day, and messages were sent to various accounts, most of which were security sites where I was reporting phishing attempts. (I use the account when ordering online so I don't have clutter on my [more]

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Windowseat posted to the Windowseat's View board. 3:08 AM

Good news in Topeka

There is some news on the Westboro Baptist front.

Good news, as far as I'm concerned, but I doubt they feel the same way.

A couple of months ago someone in Topeka (which is where Westboro is when they aren't protesting somewhere) [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Pet Lovers board. 3:57 PM

Re: How stop pulling on leash?

I know you said you'd tried every technique known, but I wanted to check. You've tried clicker training, right?

I was thinking you could combine the treadmill suggestion with clicker training. Get him a little tired, just enough to take the [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Pet Lovers board. 3:54 PM

Re: You've gotta wonder ..

Or the cat had pulled one of those disappearing acts that cats are so good at, and the family thought she had gotten out and created Missing posters. She has just reappeared from whatever dimension she had been living in, and the family hasn't [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:12 PM

Re: What was that price?

Malaoshi,

I'm so glad that your husband is improving. I've noticed that when people are seriously ill or hurt that the more they stay home, the slower the healing progresses. And being stuck in the house day after day can lead to depression, [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Windowseat's View board. 1:07 PM

Re: thinking hats available

but they didn't do anything so far as helping her with groceries, cooking, or emptying cat pans. And those were the things she really needed help with. It's all those little things that we tend to take for granted.

Vouch. When I was [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Pet Lovers board. 12:56 PM

Re: You've gotta wonder ..

I really, really want to know the story behind this one.

Some people had two cats that looked very much alike, and only one was missing? That's what I thought.

Nancy

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Windowseat replied to the Windowseat's View board. 7:26 PM

Re: A very annoying week.

That's okay, I can stand to be one-upped.

On the bright side, the Commissioner of Jurors has decided he doesn't need my help on the 25th of the month, so I don't have to worry about that.

And Mass General decided they over billed me [more]

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Windowseat replied to the Credit Cards and Consumer Debt board. 6:29 PM

Re: Credit Card Perks

Hi, welcome.

I think I can clarify what Tony was saying. Do not carry a balance, pay the bill in full every month. But if your card offers perks, use it. Charge everything you buy, including gas for the car and your groceries, and then pay [more]

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Windowseat replied to the An Open Letter board. 10:07 AM

Re: An Open Letter

So I pretty much give most parents a pass unless I actually know them at which point I am totally judgmental and snippy.

If I see parents at least trying to deal with a cranky or whiny child in a line, if I know that they are trying [more]

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Windowseat replied to the An Open Letter board. 12:11 AM

Re: An Open Letter

Seems to me that there was a time when 8th grade was the end of formal schooling for many....

My mother was the first person in her family to go to high school. Her town didn't even have a high school. She and the other kids [more]