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Hey all,

Some of you got an email from me about this, I think it is important enough to post it here as well.

I just wanted to share a screen shot from an email I got today. It is obviously someone trying to scam me and steal my identity. I just wanted to give you all a heads up.

3 Reasons this is a scam:

1. The email address it comes from (circled red) service@irs.rd.gov rd.gov is not a U.S. government domain.
2. The url they want me to go to, to fill out the supposed form. That is a hexadecimal representation of an IP Address with a sub folder named www.irs.gov.
3. The IRS does not have my email address, I have never given it to them and official communications from the IRS would never come through email.

If you get an email like this do not click on the links provided or reply to them, just delete it and forget it.

– Jerel

Well hopefully none of you noticed the short maintainance outage on my server. My friend Brent took the quick opportunity to install a bit more RAM in the server this morning while I was configuring some VPN tunnels for him. The server now has some much needed memory capacity, it is running on two gigabytes of RAM instead of one. This will help with the serving of the web pages and the processing of the emails coming through my spam filters. For the record I did grab a quick screen shot of the up time of the server before it was shut down:

That is 415 Days, 13 Hours, and 10 Minutes. We’ll see how long it can go this time. You’ve gotta love Linux.

Ohh and CITH stands for “Cat in the Hat”, I had a Dr. Seuss theme going when the server was built.

– Jerel

Not alot happened this past week. We are gearing up for the family reunion this next week and the visiting family that will be here. Randy and Sarah came down to visit on Saturday, we had fun being with them.

I did go and see the new Harry Potter movie with Inez, It was pretty good, though having read the book, the movie felt more like a synopsis of the book without a ton of development. It was worth seeing (as a matinée). It did not feel too incomplete, the more important events of the book were there, it just felt like I had read the cliff-notes is all. But hey, you try to fit a book into a 1.5 - 2 hour movie and see what you have to cut out.

– Jerel