Well, maybe more along the lines of cyber anti-social behaviour, maybe.

The continued battle against cyber-crime ...

Illustration Friday - Blues

Cedric has already amassed a collection of blues;  now he's about to pick some complementary oranges.

How crime makes life INEFFICIENT

Sometimes I reflect on how much of my life is spent on security - you know, just making sure things are locked an' all that, because actually you can't trust your fellow human beings to leave you alone.

Computer security takes you to dizzying new heights of paranoia, though.  Again, I spend so much time deleting spam from my inbox;  I've got the 'message rules' bit set to dump these messages in the plop bucket.  I then end up checking the 'Deleted items' anyway, just in case something I need to see has been put in there.

A while ago there were five Trojans lurking in my virus vault, and I was obliged to seek advice as to their care.  Luckily I stopped them before they started working ...

And I've downloaded various bits of software which are supposed to protect you from Armageddon,  at which they are quite effective - by stopping any Interweb connection at all.

Anyway, to celebrate all these happenings, I'm starting on a series of illustrations. Here's the first one.

Illustration Friday - Juggle

It was a misread recipe for jugged hare which incidentally launched Gilbert's circus career.

This is what I've been doing today

I can't claim credit for the concept of being addicted to cold turkey;  no, that accolade belongs to a mad, bald Geordie with a blue Vauxhall Astra (with a guitar in the back).  The rest of it's mine, all mine though!

Apart from that, I've been preparing for an interview as an Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor.  They wanted me to prepare a timetable of activities for patients - who would be people with mental health problems, in an acute ward.  I sent my ideas to a friend of mine, who has lots of experience of this sort of thing (as an OT rather than a patient), for feedback.

One of my proposed items is spiritual practice, but by means of guided meditation rather than Bible readings, which aren't likely to be very helpful to any non-Christians or atheists.  She also pointed out that you never know how many Jesus Christs you'd already have in the room anyway!  

I'd forgotten how surreal working with this client group can be!

Blugger is trying out New Adventures

Is anyone else having this problem with Blogger?  It seems to have changed selected items in my profile into German.  It states my astrological sign as 'Krebs', which, if I remember correctly, is actually 'Cancer' rather than 'Scorpio'.  As a dedicated Scorpio, with Scorpio rising and Mars and Pluto also in this rather scuttly sign (nice to have an integrated personality I always think) I am somewhat perturbed about this, especially as the option to change it seems to have vanished.

Still, I guess that we're dealing with the unholy world of cyberspace so anything could happen ...