I’m thinking the “some employee” scenario is more likely than someone driving around hacking wireless. Especially since they then decided to run off and buy a bunch of stuff from a single gaming-based source. Not the hallmark of sophistication.
Occam’s Razor and all that.
That said, it’s still a good idea to use WPA2, if your hardware supports it.
What’s it like being married to a supertaster, Marge?
Oh, and congratulations! How could I forget that?
I just endured three days of food poisoning. (never been so miserable)
So, looks like my Battle.net account got compromised. Well, it did. Someone added an authenticator. I had a nasty trojan a couple months back. As soon as I realized it I did some pretty heavy cleaning. Everything else seemed clear (and still does), but I guess one of the times I logged in to see if I got into the SC2 beta led them to grabbing my PW before I realized it.
Looking at my recent account activity, they got a good 3 months on my account… respec’d me entirely blood. They also got me two gold farming achievements! Woot!
Still, for some reason… they leveled up my unarmed up to 400? Maybe it was mobs disarming them.
Anyway, I posted to Blizzard’s technical forums as they tell you to do. It’s after 8, but hopefully it gets resolved tonight or tomorrow. I would like to download and back up my diablo games before it happens again. Heh.
Thoro
5946
Been diagnosed with cluster headaches. I had no idea it was possible to feel so much pain.
Just accepted an internship with the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development in San Francisco. It pays ridiculously well and hopefully I can have it extend into my fall semester so I don’t have to go through the headache of finding another for my internship class.
I’m pretty excited, but this news is kinda bumming me out.
Teledyne, do you know which division you’ll be in? FHEO in San Francisco has a really good reputation.
Nellie
5950
I had a job interview. Since january I’ve been doing a little freelance work, taking a bit of time off and seriously underestimating just how much time and money it takes to start your own business up properly when you’ve got a client list of 0.
The money’s ok, it’s a 3 month contract and I should be able to do 90% of the job with my eyes closed. And it doesn’t start until August which gives me another month to enjoy the summer (assuming I get the damn thing) and once I’ve finished the contract I can engage in phase II of trying to get the company up and running (I hope, if it extended to 6 months, that’d be perfect).
I hate job hunting. I hate not having any money even more.
Damn. You Australians are so much cooler than us it hurts.
Rimbo
5953
Yeah, but she’s pro-union. Ewwwwwww.
Our unions are less insane. There are certainly the crazy ones but nothing like what you have in the US. And furthermore, her party (Labor) has a very strong tradition (going back to its founding) of working with unions.
I won that writing contest. Have a flip HD camera coming my way. (Thanks to all who voted!)
I had E. Coli.
I woke up with really bad diarrhea, but one I got up and down three times I felt better. Then I realized the discomfort had only relocated to my stomach, where I threw up the chicken from the night before in its entirety.
It wasn’t any better that time.
After that, I heaved a solid six more times, and had six more sets of seven through the rest of the day, and for four hours I think I stopped digesting entirely. I couldn’t get any water in whatsoever despite my incredible thirst. I nearly went to the hospital, but things finally started moving again, and then I threw up again. Several of these times I didn’t get to stop to breathe and considered passing out from the lack of oxygen as a mercifully quick end.
I threw up so much that I lost the ability to speak for four days, shat pure liquid burning pain for three, until day four I was totally empty of even mucus and thus shat warm air. Until Monday night, my left eye was significantly red thanks to the violence of the heaves bursting a few vessels. It’s now just pink in the corner and makes me look stoned.
I also had to two a solid week’s worth of college classwork in 24 hours, but that’s not that interesting, just surprising how well I did.
In summary, I don’t recommend it. And I don’t think I can endorse the consumptions of Slim Jims anymore. I suggest thinking about Australia’s hot new prime minister.
: / Best wishes and a healthy recovery.
Lurb
5958
Someone come and kill me.
I sprained my ankle last Sunday after hitting a pothole and flying off my bike. Then as I pedalled slowly back home I fell again right on the bad foot while going around a parked SUV blocking a path.
So the doc gave me some anti imflammatory pills for my now horribly swollen and blue left foot. Evil stuff that has destroyed my stomach and seems to make my seasonal hay-fever induced asthma worse.
This morning started badly, mostly because it was 1 AM when the little lady started her non-stop teething howls. Seven hectic hours later as I crawled down the stairs to the office/dungeon I stopped to sneeze and cough and realized that the tiny antihistaminic pill for the hay fever wasn’t properly washed down and was stuck somewhere in my throat, in fact trying to burn its way outside, by the feel of it.
10 glasses of water later things seem somewhat better. Except I now have an urge to climb up from the dungeon and limp to the faraway bathroom, which will hurt.
Karen
5959
Talisker and Mrs. Talisker - Congrats!
I have to say that your story made me tear up, in a good way - it was so sweet.
I would have been there long before you reached that stage. WTF, man?
