Everyone seems to be either talking about it, or not talking about it, or ignoring it; or simply just playing on an Xbox these days….(warning EXTREME GENERALISATION)….oops too late. Apparently Avian Flu - (this isn’t a posh semi-latin way of saying bird flight in past tense either) is a real threat!

Read more about this threat here — – — > England Steps up to the challenge of Avian Flu! if you are a nationalist please substitute all reference of UK/Britain with England and you should be fine…

Of course the obove link is a less than accurate humrous view of something that remains a real and tangible threat. If it isn’t Global Warming - It’s mucky bird colds and Snotty beaks?! I haven’t heard much from the Andrex Camp ??

The serious story is here for those of you who think this isn’t a laughing matter — – > Avian Flu Hits England’s Shores

I like to see the lighter side of any subject, as humour often helps the educational process. As long as just as much emphasis is applied to the serious story behind all the jokes.

More to the point of this particular post. What is being done or said about this subject in the blogosphere? Quite a lot it would seem - so much so in fact there appears to be a blog devoted soley to the subject here — – > Avian Flu

So, if you are semi curious perhaps you might want to give it a look?

Okies - my new site is starting to look a little more homely and “Blog” like now, just added the Archive Calender, which was soooo missing….and now I am nearly happy. Gonna play around with a few more scripts before the night is out (including your one Kanenas ) - I really like this site now.

For the past few days I have been suffering SYN DoS and Smurf woes everytime I have tried to update this site specifically; so someone out there must really have a grudge. Anyhoo - Did a thourough disinfection on my machine which started last night and finished at some point today, I’m not sure exactly when because I’m not entirely awake right now. In this process however, I identified three seperate Trojans on my comp - two of which were the Keylogger variety.

Suffice it to say, things have now been changed. I have disconnected my Internet, Cleaned, and changed my local LAN range to a different IP range altogether. I have closed down the Bubble Cam indefinitley; as I suspect having a port open for that was part of my mistake. Effectively turning me into an easy target.

Sheesh!? There are more interesting targets out there - why come after me? Is it common place for Bloggers to be hacked and denied service when trying to update their sites? Anyone else have this problem?

Nah….you are all probably far smarter than me. By using a free Blog host (with advertising nine times out of ten - ANNOYANCE EXTREME) that takes a lot of the hassle away from you.

Sigh….well - apart from the trojans, I then found over 200 (yes that’s right I’ve been lazy for a few weeks) varieties of Spyware; the majority harmless marketing stuff but some surprising little sneaks were in the list also.

I have now set up a new “House-Cleaning” routine that will see this sort of occurance dramatically reduced.

My countdown to birthday has now officially started!

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