Comments(0) China Mieville’s new novel is out. Translated to German, its title is Eisenrat. I can assure you that my name change endeavor would have been much expedited had that been — well, you get the idea.
Comments(0) Let the record show that I didn’t actually enter Phil’s “Name My Conference Rooms” contest. Can’t I mock those who bungle the order of the planets in peace? Or, for that matter, use the word bungle?
Comments(0) This morning, I received an email from “support@ebay.com”:
Dear valued eBay member:
It has come to our attention that your eBay billing informations are out of order. If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records you will not run into any future problems with the online service. However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension. Please update your records by August 30th.Once you have updated your account records your eBay session will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to update will result in cancellation of service, Terms of Service (TOS) violations or future problems.To update your eBay records click here:
http://cgi1.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?UPdateeBay Update team
http://www.ebay.com
I glossed over the message text and clicked on the hyperlink. Since I had recently changed credit cards, it was entirely plausible that my eBay billing information was outdated. But, as you might have suspected, SpoofStick immediately alerted me that something was off-kilter: You’re on debsirin.ac.th.
It seems that a student at the Debsirin School in Thailand was phishing for my credit card number. All he got was a world of pain!!!
OK, maybe not. But at least my credit is safe.
