http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Janette+Blackwell Internet Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5293&ca=Internet The Internet is filled with scams, and eventually they wind up in your e-mail box. The ingenuity of these people is astonishing. Their goal is usually to get you to click on an e-mail attachment, so they can infect your computer with a virus, a tracking cookie, and/or a trojan horse. • COMPUTER VIRU... Internet Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5294&ca=Internet My friend Janice is afraid to go on the Internet because of the terrible things that might happen to her. She views a simple trip to get e-mail the way she views going alone, late at night, to a dangerous part of town. Please... it’s not that bad. Though, come to think of it, it’s ALMOST that bad: h... Internet Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5295&ca=Internet Because my business takes me all over the Internet, I have the dubious honor of being on three e-mail sucker lists at one e-mail address and one more at another address. Which is good, because all three at the one address send me the same warnings: my eBay account has been frozen, ditto my PayPal, a... Internet Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5296&ca=Internet Some scams use the name of organizations we trust, and they are the most vicious. Awhile back scammers sent an e-mail supposedly from the FBI. The address seemed to be fbi.gov, and the message told you that you had accessed illegal websites and that your Internet use had been monitored by the FBI’s... Internet Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5297&ca=Internet Not all e-mail scams are vicious. Some are kind of old-shoe, and a person would feel fond of them, except they are still cheating people out of their life savings. I recently got this classic: “I am George Mudashiru, a close friend and personal assistance to Abba Sani Abacha the son of the former Ni... Humor Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5298&ca=Humor Mamma was a strong believer in heredity, and she believed our family’s German heritage predisposed us to two things: hard work and stubbornness. The gene for hard work lay pretty low in us kids while we were growing up, but stubbornness kicked in fast. So one might say that what happened one summer... Humor Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5299&ca=Humor When he was six my little brother Davie graduated from driving toy trucks to driving the real thing. He persuaded Daddy to let him drive the truck -- alone -- across the fields of our Montana farm and around the farmyard. Davie knew all about truck driving by then. He had seldom missed a movement Da... Pets Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5300&ca=Pets “A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man dies but once.” Our cat Der Doc proved that this applies to cats as well. Caution was the watchword in Der Doc’s life. He was a grey cat, striped like a tiger but decidedly without the tiger’s courage. Daddy said, “He’s the original scaredy-cat.” Der Doc... Pets Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5301&ca=Pets Parakeets were “in” during the winter of 1952, and my little brother David had his heart set on one. On December 24, Mamma, Daddy, and I went to a parakeet breeder, paid $7.95, and brought home the pretty green bird we had reserved. The parakeet was hidden in the back bedroom overnight, but, in the... Food and Drinks Janette Blackwell Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=5302&ca=Food+and+Drinks Raw vegetables are dangerous and must be thoroughly fried, steamed, and boiled into submission. So thought our ancestors. The original sin of a recalcitrant vegetable was of course lessened by heat, but the conscientious nineteenth-century cook continued to boil it long after it had sogged into a je...