SilentGap

I can’t believe this is on Walmart’s website. Hurry up and check it out before Walmart finds out about it. http://tinyurl.com/3ja5xw

If they do take it down, below is a screenshot.

Through a little bit of research, I found a few Agencies / People who i thought were interesting that they were using twitter. Below are a few.

• http://twitter.com/CitySiouxFalls
• http://twitter.com/SenateFloor
• http://twitter.com/USAgov
• http://twitter.com/HouseFloor
• http://twitter.com/NRSC
• http://twitter.com/TheWhiteHouse
• https://twitter.com/Drudge_Report
• https://twitter.com/rushl (maybe rush limbaugh – not sure)

Can you think of anyone else?

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

My next question is – how expensive is it.

http://www.nikkor2d2.com/

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

Ok, so i came across this site in a magazine (yeah, that’s right, i was reading something that wasn’t online – it had ton’s of art and pictures in it) called http://www.mono-1.com/monoface. If you’ve never been there before, i suggest you stop by when you get a break in the action. You can spend an endless amount of time trying to come up with different faces. Below is a screenshot of one that i came up with.

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

Many of us have been given the opportunity to “Choose Life” . Regardless of our political views, regardless on what we may believe in this issue or that one, we can rejoice in one common person.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has give us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade – kept in heaven for you. 1 Peter 1.3-4

And for those of my friends who don’t believe, consider this an invitation!

God Bless, Have a great first day of the week!

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

On July 31, an article was posted on ZDNet.com about some worms on the web, squirming there way through Facebook and MySpace. The actual method of attack seems to be through,… [long pause] … Social Enginering (which means, you’re curiosity get’s the best of you and someone tricks you into thinking you’re doing one thing, when you’re actually doing another).

Some of the messages and comments posted to the social network sites include:

- Paris Hilton Tosses Dwarf On The Street
- Examiners Caught Downloading Grades From The Internet
- Hello; You must see it!!! LOL. My friend catched you on hidden cam
- Is it really celebrity? Funny Moments and many others.

The messages and comments include links to a fake YouTube-like site. Clicking on the link redirects the targer to another YouTube clone fitted with a note to download the latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player.

However, instead of the latest version of Flash Player, a file called codesetup.exe is downloaded to the victim machine; this file is also a network worm. Kaspersky said [from Kaspershy Lab's]its security suite detected the threats proactively and signatures were added to the database on July 31, 2008.

In short – don’t download anything unless you read the file name and know exactly what it does.

Original article can be found here

Tim Schoffelman of SilentGap

Well, I have some news on the family tree – I was able to get a hold of, what looks like, a distant relative in Germany – I won’t tell his name, only that it appears that when my Great-Great-Grandfather immigrated to the U.S., at which point he changed his last name from Schoffelmann to Schoffelman.

So i took a stab in the dark – I started searching some of my internet channels for the last name Schoffelmann and came across one who lives in Germany. He confirmed that He remembered his Dad telling him that he had a few distant relatives that immigrated to the U.S.

The neat thing about is, from old records I found a few years ago, I knew our family came from a specific region in Germany. When I asked Mr. Schoffelmann from Germany where his family was from, he listed that same area as a part of his origin.

Now, there’s more information to it, but for the sake of reserving the privacy of my family, i won’t divulge anymore information – unless of course – you are family. In which case, just get a hold of me.

~tj

.

Ok, so one of the partners I work for at blend (nice plug huh) suggested that everyone should at least partisipate in editing or creating some sort of Wikipedia page. So, a month later i decided to take him up on his suggestion. Not having actually done anything yet, i wanted to show all of you what the next screen looks like after you create an account with them (which to edit a page – which i have done before – you don’t need an account – but instead it log’s your IP address).

In order to post on Wikipedia, you need to keep in mind a few things.

1. It’s basically an online encyclopedia, with information entered in by any user, and not a blog post or a plug to promote some event, person, place or thing – so keep it factual and informative.
2. Since information can be changed by anyone, don’t worry if you make a mistake, chances are someone out there can come back and help clean it up – depending on how popular the subject is. But having the ability to change any item can be contrivertial, so Wikipedia will flag it if it does become that.
3. Many other people have gone before you to create or edit a page, so if you get stuck on something, they have a good user Q&A section – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questions

So have fun & enjoy!

~tim