Wow this is really slower than I remember

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Our ISP at work has been having issues all day long. I managed to get a dialup connection going using my laptop, but haven’t had much time to get caught up on news. I did pick up this little tidbit about security in MSN Messenger from today’sLockergnome. You might want to read it.

And this tale of spam would be funny if it weren’t actually happening! (Via Dane Carlson )

Looks like AOL is back to blocking Trillian again today. I give up, I’m not going to download new versions of Trillian every other day just so I can talk to my wife online. (She’s the only AIM user I talk to.) I’ll just yell up the stairs at her..*L*

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