Test Number One - PASSED

I took and passed the first test this afternoon. 

Austin - Live Music Capital of the World

Everywhere you go in Austin you find a band playing, a GREAT band. No kidding.

Here is a band that was playing at the Whole Foods Market on Lamar tonight. THEY HAVE A LIVE BAND PLAYING AT A GROCERY STORE.

And they freakin' rocked.

Day One

The first day of class was no big deal. These first two days are Mac software/OS troubleshooting and I do that all the time at work already. Most of it I knew but there have been some great tips and tricks. Tomorrow is the last day of this initial class followed by the first test. I would bet I would have no problem passing the test but I will be studying tonight regardless.

While I was out at lunch today I spotted this little Honda Spree parked on the street. I have a similar Spree and I could not imagine bombing down Sixth Street on one of these little things. On a level road it MIGHT get up to 27 mph.

This person is either crazy or stupid. Since this is Austin, I am leaning towards crazy.

Apple Certification

Well, I made it to Austin and this is my home for the next ten days-

I'm here in Austin for training and testing to become an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician for my work at the university. The training is seven days of classes with three tests along the way. The first two should be not too bad but the last one is a killer from what I understand. I'll keep you posted.

OMG People Are Stupid!!

I work in the IT department of a decent sized state university. Our department recently sent out a campus wide email warning the staff and faculty of an email phishing scam that was making the rounds at the time.

Here is the text of that email, edited for privacy:

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There have been several reports of students at SFA receiving email similar to the one below. These emails are phishing attempts designed to give hackers vital information necessary to access your mySFA account and are not being sent by SFA. No official at Stephen F. Austin State University will EVER solicit this type of information from you via email. If you receive this message, please disregard the instructions. Thank you,

Mr. Blank
Manager of Technical Support
Technical Support Center


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From: "Blank University"

Subject: *Email Validating Please Confirm.*

Dear Subscriber

This mail is to inform all our users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a Subscriber of our site you are required send us your Email account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.

Further be informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail account details which are as follows:

*User name:
*Password:
*Date of birth:

All Details Must be forwarded to the support team via this email.
supporta105@googlemail.com


Failure to do this we will deactivate your email address from our database.

Thanks


Blank University SUPPORT TEAM

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First off you have to be dumb to fall for something like this. But here is the real kicker-

At least two dozen faculty members replied to the warning email WITH THEIR USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS!!!!!