Security thoughts first thing in the morning

I wonder if anyone googles for vacation messages on mailing lists and sells the results to thieves? Having a name and an email address is likely to get you a physical address, and burglarizing an empty house must have a much higher success rate than otherwise.

I never use vacation messages except in a strictly work context, and work email isn't subscribed to any mailing lists outside the company's firewall...

Security thoughts first thing in the morning

I wonder if anyone googles for vacation messages on mailing lists and sells the results to thieves? Having a name and an email address is likely to get you a physical address, and burglarizing an empty house must have a much higher success rate than otherwise.

I never use vacation messages except in a strictly work context, and work email isn't subscribed to any mailing lists outside the company's firewall...

Books

_Preacher: Proud Americans_, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
_Thirteenth Child_, Patricia Wrede

I continue to try Preacher looking for the story, and finding just enough of it to continue.

Wrede's book is an enjoyable fantasy about growing up. It suffers from the first standard Alternate History mistake, which is unwarranted similarities to our own history after a major change. It also suffers from the standard clash between magic and alt-history: if magic is at all useful, why is this world anything at all like ours?

People have been criticizing Wrede for eliminating the Siberian land-bridge, stocking the Americas with the descendants of Pleistocene megafauna, and having the beasts be so nasty that they ate every pre-Columbian settlement attempt. This is being treated as racism, in that there are no aboriginal peoples in the Americas in the book. As far as I am concerned, this is a category error. The problem is that the cultures she does show us shouldn't be so close as they are to anything we are familiar with.

That said, it's fun and lightweight.

Books

_Preacher: Proud Americans_, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
_Thirteenth Child_, Patricia Wrede

I continue to try Preacher looking for the story, and finding just enough of it to continue.

Wrede's book is an enjoyable fantasy about growing up. It suffers from the first standard Alternate History mistake, which is unwarranted similarities to our own history after a major change. It also suffers from the standard clash between magic and alt-history: if magic is at all useful, why is this world anything at all like ours?

People have been criticizing Wrede for eliminating the Siberian land-bridge, stocking the Americas with the descendants of Pleistocene megafauna, and having the beasts be so nasty that they ate every pre-Columbian settlement attempt. This is being treated as racism, in that there are no aboriginal peoples in the Americas in the book. As far as I am concerned, this is a category error. The problem is that the cultures she does show us shouldn't be so close as they are to anything we are familiar with.

That said, it's fun and lightweight.

Home invasion

One mouse carcass, disembowelled, apparently found delicious by the cat sitting at attention next to it.

In our bedroom.

Z thought it was cool.

Home invasion

One mouse carcass, disembowelled, apparently found delicious by the cat sitting at attention next to it.

In our bedroom.

Z thought it was cool.