Source: Academica Top 10 (April 14, 2009)
— http://www.academica.ca/comment/reply/7333

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“Phishing” emails appear to come from a trusted source — in this case the College/University campus IT Department — and send you to a web site to gather (verify) some personal information. This web site may look like it is legitimate but it is not. [ Wikipedia on Phishing ]

In the reported scam — campus network usernames and passwords were gathered from students staff and faculty. It is reported that in 42 of these campuses the gathered information was later used to break into the campus network.

Phishing scams are more commonly found targeting banking and online shopping sites like eBay. I am not sure what information the originators of this scam were looking for — possibly financial records.

At this point Tyndale has not seemed to be targeted in this “Phishing trip”

The question du jour is this: WOSWJU? Or, What Operating System Would Jesus Use? A trite question? Hardly. Anyone interested in the eternal fate of their computer data should concern themselves with finding the truth (Truth?) behind this question. Instead of just giving a pat-answer let’s go through our options, shall we?

Read: What OS Would Jesus Use?

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Should Toronto be following in the footsteps of Saskatchewan’s cities?

You can read the article here

SIST Application Developer

Reporting to the Director of ITS, this computer programming position is a member of the Strategic Information Systems Team (SIST) and will develop, automate, and assist in the refining and maintaining business processes by providing application services for internal and external constituents.

For more information on these positions and on the application procedure, please visit: Tyndale’s Employment Webpage

One of the reasons is Facebook’s clean interface and ease-of-use. The navigation is simple and straight forward – it is easy to find out what’s up with your friends. It seems to be built with the end-user in mind. As a web developer who thinks about these things daily, I find Facebook a real treat.

Sometime between when I went to bed last night and when I woke up again this morning Facebook launched their “new look”! – it is a lot more than just a new look – there are some changes in navigation – your inbox – and how networks are managed. You can get the whole scoop at the Facebook blog here.

Here are the highlights…

1. A navigation and profile simplification—Ever feel like you couldn’t find what you were looking for on that long left menu? We’ve redistributed all these menu options into “Core Aspects” on the top menu, “Applications” on the left menu, Settings on the top right, and everything else at the footer of the page. As for the profile, we’ve added drop-down menus to the top of every user’s profile page, making it easier to get to the information you want to see.
2. The introduction of “Inbox”—The former “My Messages” and “My Shares” pages have been redesigned to make the communication between you and your friends easier. Now you can send a group of your friends a message with or without a shared link, and easily track the ensuing conversation in one “thread” in your Inbox.
3. Network Pages—To make networks more relevant to their real-world counterparts, we’ve built out pages where network members, events, trends, and demographic info are displayed. Anything visible on a Network page is something that is already accessible to members of that network, and we’ve added additional “Publicize” options to groups and events that make it easy to distinguish what will and will not appear on your Network page. In addition, each page has a full version for members of the networks, and a public version—with certain kinds of information blocked—for people outside that network.

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These changes – especially the navigation changes – are going to take a little getting used to – I am very familiar with how things worked before. However – I think these are good – well thought out changes. Once the original “where’s that�? phase is worked through I think it will be an even easier application to use.

So are you a Facebook junky? What’s your thoughts?

When Geeky guys (gender inclusive) go to church they tend to get involoved in the church technology – web sites – projection – audio/visual/sound – I have been for years.

Jim writes a blog called Church Tech Matters - it is right up my alley! He writes about different types of technology used in a church setting and how to make it better. Recently Jim started a wiki (what?) called the Church Tech Matters Wiki. The content has been started based around church projection – something close to my heart and pretty important technology for the modern church.

So if you have any interest in technology – the church and how the two relate – check out Jim’s blog and the wiki. You have to love it – using technology to talk about technology… Geek is Chic!