A friend who recently went to a retreat
at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat sent me this photo of the almost 9 foot tall Icicle Creek Chandelier created by Dale Chihuly. Learn more about the chandelier and other artwork at the Sleeping Lady Artwork page.
This Saturday, October 28, is the Wenatchee Valley Make a Difference Day. Click on the flyer image below to view it full size.
| This North Central Washington Portal update includes Alstown, Withrow, Lamoine, and places around these areas. Below is a few thumbnails from the update which included 24 photos. | ||
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| This North Central Washington Portal update included 52 new photos of the Wilson Creek and Krupp-Marlin area. Below are some thumbnails of 24 of the 52 new photos. | ||
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Doors open at 6:00pm, Click here for more information.
I'm not referring to North Central Washington's own Dave Graybill, but a different kind of phisherman. This phisher is looking to catch people, or more accurately, people's information.
Yesterday I receive a message that says nothing more than, "I liked your site" from someone with a long and peculiar email address. The first thing I check on his email address is the domain name, the part of the email address after the "@" symbol. The domain name doesn't have a website attached to it, this is always a sign of something mischievous. So after some searching around I find out all I need to know about this person.
He uses an auto-form filler to fill out forms on websites and has done this to hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of websites. He typically writes "I like your site" or something very similar. Each time he uses an unique email address, for example, "hisname12345@example.com", "hisname14235@example.com", and so on. His only hope is that someone will reply with a simple "thank you" email. Once he gets your email address, he can sell it to spammers, spam it himself, or begin dialogue like asking you more and more personal questions.
The great thing about form spammers is that unlike email spammers, a form spammer can't fake his IP address as easily. For instance, using an ARIN search I know exactly which web hosting company this spammer uses and how to contact them and let them know someone has been abusing their service.
Not far from where I took the photo of the Wild Horse Wind Farm I came across this caravan of tractors travelling back from a day in the fields. A sight most city folks probably don't see that often.
