Just checking in to see who uses Skype. I’ve been using it for close to a year now.

What is Skype you ask?

Skype is a little program for making free calls over the internet to anyone else who also has Skype. It’s free and easy to download and use, and works with most computers.

If you want to call a landline, it’s only 2 cents a minute anywhere in the World… as my girl would say: rockin’

Anyway, I use Skype and if you do too, let me know your Skype name so we can talk.

If you don’t use Skype or need to download it, you can get it from here.

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime…

It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it’s OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

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A new worm posing as a come-on to a Santa Claus site is traveling across all the major instant messaging networks, a security firm warned Tuesday, and when recipients visit the bogus site, they’re infected with a file hidden from sight by a rootkit.

IMlogic said that the worm, dubbed “M.GiftCom.All,” is circulating on the MSN, AOL, ICQ, and Yahoo instant messaging services, is a “Medium” threat, a relatively rare classification for the Waltham, Mass.-based company. Most IM worms and Trojans listed on its Threat Center receive only a “Low” classification.

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Source: Tech Web