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Photo by Frederick FN Noronha. Creative Commons 3.0. Attribution. Non-commercial. May be copied for non-commercial purposes. For other purposes, contact fn at goa-india.org
This is my tribute to Pinkjay as she has some very beautiful flower shots. Obviously I can't take a straight forward shot, so I pulled off some petals (much to the old ladies' disgust) and neatly arranged it in some rotting Autumn leaves.
As many of you know my FB and Hotmail accounts were hacked this weekend. I've blogged about my experience and hopefully it'll stop it happening to someone else. Am on FB again now, new account and collecting friends - i feel SOOOO popular today, just what I needed to lift my spirits after a nasty weekend (shoots aside!).
The server my website was hosted on got hacked. So, I've moved my site over to a more secure server.
Photo by Frederick FN Noronha. Creative Commons 3.0. Attribution. Non-commercial. May be copied for non-commercial purposes. For other purposes, contact fn at goa-india.org
Please, Folks, if anyone contacts you with an "urgent" message asking you to email them, you need to be super careful and check their stream and profile. Most will have no pics available, or only a profile pic they think is attractive. These folks are hoping you will contact them by email and they can somehow access your computers and hijack all your banking info! It's even worse when you use a smart phone, since they can access all your contacts, too!
Years ago, before they were even as good at this as they are now, I was hacked by a Nigerian. Just chatting on the site made it possible for him to take over my computer! I don't know how it works, but all I know is it was pretty quick and would have been painful had I been doing online banking and such back then! I would try to log onto my computer, would enter my password, and watch it change before my eyes from a 7 digit to a 16 digit one! The hacker was remote controlling it! I had to have it wiped at a computer shop. Had that happened with a bunch of photos and programs, I could have lost everything. Fortunately, it was in the early days of my computer use, and I didn't really use it for much other than going on a few sites and surfing the web.
Flickrmail is a good thing. Use it! If you don't know if you can trust someone, it's a whole lot safer than giving out your email. I understand that yahoo is one of the worst for hackers, too, so if you use Yahoo chat or email, you might want to switch to gmail or something. Be careful whose emails you open, and play it safe. Block people who try to get you to email them, and let everyone know who they are! Let's drive the bad guys off Flickr!
A park Rangers hooked me up with a new location to check out in the Delaware water gap. I had heard of this place but must have forgotten it for some reason. Anyway, being a cloudy day, I figured this was the time to check it out. The place was pretty busy, so I had to compose the shot to keep all the moving people out of the it. I couldn't do anything about the moving plants, they don't listen very well.