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Phishing for W2

Greg — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:26:39 +0000

Always read emails carefully, especially the stuff you cannot see. Emails are going around trying to get you to update your IRS W2 form. We received one here, but if you look closely it is from irs.com as opposed to irs.gov.

From: Internal Revenue Service < update@irs.com >
Date: November 9, 2009 6:16:29 AM EST
To: removed...
Subject: W-2 Form update

 Important changes within the IRS Employers W-2 forms.
 Attached is a updated version of the W-2 form that needs to be completed by all US based employers.
 Please update your records and make sure the W-2 form will updated before December 1 2009.
 Whether you rely on a tax professional or handle your own taxes,
 the IRS offers you convenient programs to make filing and payment easier.
 Spend less time and worry on taxes and more time running your business.
 Use e-file and the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) to your benefit.
 . For e-file, visit www.irs.gov for additional information.
 . For EFTPS, visit www.eftps.gov or call EFTPS Customer Service at 1-800-555-4477.

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Random limerick

Greg — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:57:00 +0000

I wrote a program to generate random limericks. Here are two example results:

 There once was a man in crowded
 Who thought they were quite shambled.
 They had their observation's,
 And some abbreviations,
 But could not really unheeded.

 There once was a lady from miserably,
 Who thought they were quite fashionably.
 They had their coupon,
 And some hellion,
 But could not really provably.

Go get IE7

Greg — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:48:00 +0000

Hot on the heals of the release of IE7 comes news of a remote exploit already. Then I get this email in my George Washington inbox:

…IE7 is anticipated to cause severe problems for users attempting to access GW applications such as Banner, Blackboard, EAS, or Kronos. Therefore, GW departments and individual staff and faculty should not download or use IE7 until such time it is certified to be compatible within the GW environment….

Duh…

I Cannot Picture It

Greg — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:18:00 +0000

Sorry to all of you who like looking at the photoarchive. It is not working right now. I have exceeded my space quota and will need to do some work on it. Hopefully I can get it back up and running soon.

EDIT: I have it working again. Woohoo! Thankfully Gallery is not too hard to upgrade.

Cluttering the airwaves

Greg — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:48:00 +0000

I just purchased a new Intel 2915 wireless card with some of the money I got from my consulting work at COE. Although they (Intel) say this only works on centrino laptops, they lie. Running just swimmingly on my AMD Turion64.

The old wireless card is 16bit PCMCIA and actually belongs to my lab. It only supported 64bit 802.11b. This one is a mini-PCI card for internal installation into my laptop. I went with this one because of the great support it has in linux. Popped open my cover, tossed it in, guessed which wires to connect, and booted up.

Another great thing is that my laptop’s wifi button is hardware activated, which means it works no matter what operating system I use. Just one more reason I do not need window$.