Today one of my email accounts received a Facebook notification, only I knew straight away that it was a fake. �This post shows you what the email looked like and the warning signs that this wasn�t a valid notification. �More likely, it was an attempt to steal my facebook details & hack into my account, after I had clicked on the links & willingly entered in my real facebook username and password for them.

Have I made you angry with the title of my blog? Are you frustrated at the critics of a movement that just wants to save the kids? Are you trying to search through media reports to confirm what the truth is and what it isn’t? That’s my point.

48hrs ago I had no idea who Joseph Kony was.  I sat and watched as Kony 2012 swept social media then my television.  My FB & Twitter feeds were swamped with links to the video.  And then the critics were publicised too. A university professor and a student weighed in on the debate. The most recent one I’ve seen is from someone who has returned from Uganda.

This isn�t intended as a comprehensive argument on how to evaluate if Cloud Computing is right for you or not. �I�ve written it to show where we use Cloud Computing in our own business, and where we don�t. �As most of my readers aren�t IT Providers, you may find something relevant in this, or you may not. �But I�m a firm believer in recommending the best solution to a client for their individual needs, so our own decision on Cloud Computing has been based on our current business needs.

I’m officially NOT an Australian. I have a New Zealand passport and I’m entitled to a British one too.  As I sit here in my Brisbane home on Australia Day, I’m officially a ‘Resident on a Special Category Visa’. That’s Aussie legal talk for ‘Kiwi’.  To my homeland, I’m a ‘Non-resident’.

There is a stereotype that Kiwis in Australia live off government payments and enjoy the land of milk and honey, just lazing about, and that’s before we mention sheep. Kiwis have their own thoughts on Australians and sheep too 🙂  So let’s just look at my profile for a minute as someone who’s NOT an Australian:

Before you go and get all excited, it is not a New Year’s Resolution of mine to write more blog posts, even if it should be.  After housework, mummy duties and work, I occassionally like to spend an hour doing nothing but watching mindless TV, but that rarely happens, so my blog posting is waaay down in the priorities list.  Not to mention that I’ve discovered the time black hole that is Pinterest.  Saying that, I had to chuckle at someone else on Twitter who moaned that her brain is full of writing ideas UNTIL she sits down at her computer for some allocated writing time.  I often feel like that.  So tonight I’m foregoing an early (pre 10am) night in bed, to get some thoughts out of my brain.  Here’s hoping that will make for a better night’s sleep, instead of a night of processing what I’ve just written.

Today, Kerr Alexandra (@Kerr_alexandra) tweeted �Probably my most favorite fitting room sign ever!�, with a pic that referenced makeup and fake tans. I�m guessing this is the bane of many retailers, who end up with smudged and stained goods back on their racks that nobody wants to buy. I�m also guessing that model�s makeup scarves hanging in the fitting room may be lost on most of the general public too, though they are intended for the express purpose of keeping ones makeup on one and not on one�s new clothes when changing outfits.

In the tradition of �physician, heal thyself�, I�ll come clean and confess to a slight user error with my iPhone. I will also let you in on the secret of how I recovered from it, which you may also be able to do WITHOUT calling your IT department.

So, this iPhone thing is all new to me. I�m usually an early adopter, but my HTC phone was still under contract when the first iPhone came out and then I procrastinated�about the iPhone vs Windows Phone debate�so I managed to launch straight into a 4S.� Setting it up was rather straighforward � until I tried to add another email account.� Said second email account is on a server that isn�t mine, and all I had�was a wedmail address & the login details.� I can figure this out, surely.

Today, my twitter account @CTAspley was unfollowed. Publicly.
The person who unfollowed me sent a tweet that mentioned my name, and said as I’d unfollowed them first, they would reciprocate. Boo hoo.

The impact of this is that I became aware of the unfollowing, and anyone that they follow also saw that I’d unfollowed that person. After that sentence, do you still follow me? If you use twitter, that probably made sense.

After having dinner, getting the kids to bed & doing the dishes, I forced myself to go back into the office and finish today�s bookwork before I wrote this post. I did get it finished too, apart from one bill I have to yell at Sensis about. �My aim is to have the books up-to-date each Monday and I didn�t want to start Tuesday with that hanging over me. �All I really wanted to do though was write. �The term is �eating frogs� � referring to doing what you don�t want to do, first, then enjoying your pleasant task afterwards. �Frog eaten, commence writing (it�s 21:41). Oh the life of a Work at Home Mum.

Disturbing email doing the rounds over the long Easter weekend in Australia, pretending to be from BigPond. I?m blogging about this in the hope that you?ll find this entry?if you receive that email and Google it first.? It?s a scam, and a very clever one.

First the details: sender address?ebilling@bt.com?(that?s your first alarm bell-bt.com is not a bigpond or telstra domain name)

Subject: Your ADSL Service Cancellation Notice?(second alarm bell ? I am not and have never been a BigPond ADSL customer)