Month: February 2026
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Domain Transfer Confirmation Email? No, It’s Not From ICANN.
[3/7/2026 Update: So after all this, and me saying such a mail is a scam, it is not. The new hosting provider chosen by Mauvehed, for attrition.org, uses this entity as a “partner registrar”. This new provider demonstrates they are amateur hour at security. First, the mail doesn’t identify the hosting provider, and doesn’t identify…
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NSA, Theft, and the Original Quantum Lazlo
Back in November, 2009, Attrition.org staff (including me) finally got around to finalizing the name for our new mascot (archive.org), the angry squirrel firmly associated with Attrition and myself. In a cheeky letter from the mascot, it was signed ‘Lazlo’. Since that date, the mascot has seen a wide variety of iterations as Lazlo was…
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Support Charity or Shatter Dreams
A few days ago, a friend linked me to a contest that her daughter’s art was entered in, where voting is done online. I’m sure we’ve seen this for a wide variety of things in our lives these days, so it is easy to miss some of the little details that render the competitions unfair.…
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Abert’s Squirrels and Wonderful Variations
After moving from Denver to the nearby mountains, I was quite happy to learn that I had four different kinds of squirrels in the area. The Golden Mantle Ground Squirrel, Least Chipmunk, Douglas Pine Squirrel, and the Abert’s Squirrel. The last is also known as the tassel-eared squirrel. Native to the southern Rockies, they can…
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Random Movie/TV Thoughts and Reviews (February 2026)
Reviews One Battle After Another (2025) is the kind of movie, to me, that seems to have everything right; good acting, interesting plot, good character development. And yet somehow it just doesn’t click for me. I understand why it would win an award for any given acting role, but overall as a movie I think…