Personal data of 1m bank customers found on secondhand computer sold on eBay for £35

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1049121/Personal-data-1m-bank-customers-secondhand-sold-eBay-35.html

Why bother hacking when you can just buy it on eBay?

Hackers Run Off With Data on 8 Million Best Western Customers

http://www.dailytech.com/Hackers+Run+Off+With+Data+on+8+Million+Best+Western+Customers/article12762.htm

Try to keep a straight face the next time you hear someone talking about "secure web access".

Marijuana Grow House Found In Mall Of The Americas

http://www.cfnews13.com/News/Local/2008/8/24/marijuana_grow_house_found_in_mall_of_the_americas.html

Probably planted by one of these shady characters known to hang out at malls: http://www.6teen.ca/

Grain sits idle as demand overloads railways

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/news/stories/2008/08/25/grain.html

The state of America's rail system is truly amazing. My kids have probably never seen a new locomotive. I don't recall seeing one in the past twenty years.

A week or so ago, I was stopped for a train and noticed the second engine had at one point been on fire, burning the paint off the mid-section. The fire had been extinguished and the engine put back in service with no attempt to paint the blackened metal. Disgraceful.

There are several tracks in the area in such bad condition trains are limited to twenty miles per hour. You can see the trains moving along slowly with the cars rocking back and forth.

The Rules of Spam

The abbreviated version:

Rule #1: Spammers lie.
Rule #2: If a spammer seems to be telling the truth, see Rule #1.
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
Rule #4: The natural course of a spamming business is to go bankrupt

http://bruce.pennypacker.org/spamrules.html

If your going to ask retirees for United Way pledges...

You could at least check if the retirees are alive before sending out letters.

The Williams company sent dad a letter this week asking for United Way contributions.

Dad has been dead for 14 months. Sheesh!

I'm tempted to check the box "No, I prefer not to give this year" and send it back to them.

What hath God wrought?

My first post.