World Wide Web Day, Laura Gets a Nexus 7 2013, and Enjoy!

World Wide Web Day - Today is World Wide Web Day! World Wide Web Day celebrates opening the World Wide Web to the public. The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail does. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the World Wide Web.

The hypertext portion of the Web in particular has an intricate intellectual history; notable influences and precursors include Vannevar Bush's Memex, IBM's Generalized Markup Language, and Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu.

The concept of a home-based global information system goes at least as far back as "A Logic Named Joe," a 1946 short story by Murray Leinster, in which computer terminals, called "logics," were in every home. Although the computer system in the story is centralized, the story captures some of the feeling of the ubiquitous information explosion driven by the Web.

Laura Gets a Nexus 7 2013 - Laura showed no interest in my Nexus 7 2012. When my Nexus 7 2013 arrived last week, she was similarly disinterested. Last evening, I started the video demo of "Asphalt 8: Airborne" and handed her my Nexus 7 2013. As she watched the video, she quickly fell under the thrall of the HD display and simulated surround sound. Her eyes took on a glassy appearance. Her pulse became rapid and irregular. She became weak and groped for a chair to aid her stability. She fell into the chair and continued watching the video.

"Asphalt" is a legendary racing franchise and "Asphalt 8: Airborne" promises to live up to the name with jaw-dropping console-grade graphics and adrenaline boosting gameplay.

By the time the trailer had ended, it was apparent to me that Laura had fallen fully under the thrall of the Nexus 7 2013. She remained in this zombie-like state, and I realized nothing but personal ownership of the creature would restore Laura fully. In order to save her, then, I ordered one for her. It shall arrive on Monday. I declared it a birthday gift. Yesterday was her birthday.

Enjoy - Relax and Enjoy these photos and videos!

Beware!

Beware! - One must be very cautious when online. The Internet is a wonderful resource for research, certainly, but it is also a vast miasma of scofflaws eager to take advantage of you financially!

This email message appeared in my Outlook Inbox this morning. It certainly looks legitimate. It is nearly identical to the messages sent by Verizon Wireless.

GREED is often the first indicator one is dealing with a criminal. In this instance, it seems ridiculous that someone expects me to read the message and remit $3587.71! Nonetheless, if these scams did not work at least some of the time, they would soon fail to be sent.

There are several indicators for which one should look when determining the legitimacy of such emails:

Greed - Suspect any email that is based on greed—either the greed of the sender (as in the example above) or the greed of the recipient (the phony inheritance scams, banking scams, etc.)

Poor grammar - Suspect any email that contains misspellings, syntax errors, etc. Generally, these messages originate in non-English-speaking countries and are composed by people with poor language skills.

Companies with whom you do not do business - Obviously, any message that appears to be from a bank, wireless company, etc., with whom one has no account is a fraudulent message.

Reply or destination location - If you suspect an email, the quickest, simplest, and surest way to determine its legitimacy is by checking the reply or destination location. It is a simple matter to fake an email address so that a message appears to come from a trusted source (for example, "customerservice@microsoft.com), but the reply or destination location email address or URL will tell the true story. By hovering the mouse over links in an email, one can easily see where a reply will go or where a user will be taken by clicking a URL. Generally, the email address or URL will terminate in an extension indicating a server in a foreign land.

It is not yet 9 AM, and already this morning I have received six potentially dangerous emails.

This is "light showers?" - Each weekday morning, I slither into the dining room and watch the news on a small LCD HDTV that sits on the dining room table. I watch the news generally from 5 AM until 8 AM. The local news has the time slot of 5:30 AM until 7 AM. This morning, the weatherperson—Rob Blair—forecast "light showers" for today. I was fully prepared for light showers when I exited my house and encountered heavy rain!

When I reached my office at 7:45 AM, this is the view I saw when I peered at the CATCam preview on my desktop. It is wet out there, and it is getting wetter!



While changing the configuration of one of my domain (calif-tech.com) email accounts, I discovered an email account that I had set up around five years ago on my domain server and did not subsequently configure in Outlook 2010! I added this account to Outlook 2010 and was presented with the notification that 13,xxx messages were downloading!!!

Since I had never used this account, I felt it safe to assume the messages there were of no concern.

I immediately closed Outlook 2010 and engaged Mail2Web. I used this free service to delete all 13,xxx messages. Whew! Now, I

If you are not familiar with Mail2Web, allow me to introduce you to it. It is a free resource that can be very useful.

Mail2Web (www.mail2web.com) will access any email account by simply supplying the username and password for the account. It requires no configuration whatever, and it is fast and free! Mail2Web can be very useful if one wishes to access an email account from a borrowed or public computer.



Mail2Web also offers paid services that provide a variety of email solutions. It is a resource that I highly recommend.