Author: Kent

Stupid emails

Somebody has me in the their address book and has a virus. I have no idea who it is, but most likely if they have me in their address book, they may also have other readers of this site in their address books as well. This is a public service announcement.

Recently, I have have been getting many supposedly official-looking emails claiming to be sent from admin@elbuzzard.com or info@elbuzzard.com. Since I am the adminstrator of elbuzzard.com, I find these kind of funny. These emails are all a part of an elaborate hoax, attempting to spread a virus in the .zip attachment.

This is what the emails look like:

Dear Elbuzzard Member,

We have temporarily suspended your email account buzz@elbuzzard.com.

This might be due to either of the following reasons:

1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.
See the details to reactivate your Elbuzzard account.

Sincerely,The Elbuzzard Support Team

+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Elbuzzard Antivirus – www.elbuzzard.com

It is safe to IGNORE and/or DELETE these emails.
DO NOT follow the “instructions”,
DO NOT open the attachment, and
DO NOT follow the links.

The big hint should be the “+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)”.

I repeat: DO NOT OPEN THE ZIP ATTACHMENT. I’m tired of getting these emails.

If you are reading this, and think it may be you who opened a similar email, let me know, and I’ll help you clean your machine.

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I’m not the only one

From Fantasy Football writer Joe Bryant:

I’m with Saints coach Jim Haslett on the holding call at the end of the Atlanta game. That was lame and should have been a no call. To me, it was exactly like the end of the USC – Notre Dame game where Reggie Bush clearly violated the letter of rules pushing Matt Leinart into the end zone.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3230/1483/400/BushPush.jpg

I don’t think you call that one on USC. And I don’t think you call the Saints for holding there. That flag doesn’t get thrown on New England or Philadelphia or Dallas.

Lost passwords

I’ve been noticing that a lot of our users have been losing their passwords after registering.

Did you know that you don’t have to use the ugly password that is sent to you when you first register forever?

You can update your account here: https://www.elbuzzard.com/wp-admin/profile.php. The last two fields allow you to change your password to something a bit more personal, that you can remember a little easier.

I’ve also added a link to the profile editor in the sidebar to the right.

Rating the World

There’s a new feature on EBE, based on our dry erase board when Dave first came up to Atlanta. Leslie and Dave have been slacking in the posting department, so I’m hoping this will encourage them to get back on track.

We’ve got three new categories, which work kind of like a recomendation/rating/review system.

The original categories on the dry erase board were:

I have added:

It’s all pretty self-explanatory.

The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth

I’ve been listening to this song by the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah over and over and over. I just can’t get enough of lead singer Alec Ounsworth’s barely controlled/cracking vocal style. He reminds me of David Byrne, Frank Black, John Lydon, and the guy from Neutral Milk Hotel.

The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth m4a – hosted by kissatlanta.com.

There’s more mp3s on the CYHSY website.