Are you that dumb?

Do you think other people are that dumb?

That in the year 2010, you can send an email, with a zipped attachment, without even faking the @microsoft.com, and someone will extract and run your malware?

Subject : Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)
From: morenozus@rlb1.com (Actual, in the headers, the from that you would see will be spoofed to something else)

Is the email address trying to spell out something like Morons R Us?

Is that a new hacking group?

And they are Looking for like-minded individuals?

The body of the email:

Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721)

Brief Description
Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express. This update is
critical and provides you with the latest version of the Microsoft Outlook / Outlook
Express and offers the highest levels of stability and security.

Instructions

* Install Update for Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express (KB910721). To do this, follow
these steps:
1. Run attached file officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe
2. Restart Microsoft Outlook / Outlook Express

Here is one must-have accessory for your 2010 Camaro 2SS.

With the 2SS, you get a USB Port, which you can use to connect an IPOD or a generic USB Flash drive.

With the flash drive, it sticks out into the console, giving you the opportunity to break it off, if you forget that it's there and drop something in the console without thinking.

The Elago Nano Mobile Micro USB card reader can alleviate a breakage worry, and allow you to fully utilized the console with gigs of music available all of the time.

You can get one for $10 on ebay, Including Shipping.

I am in search of a restaurant that I can say, 'Wow! That's really good, I'd like to come back here.'

So far, I've found some places that are good, some disappointing, but none that are really 'Wow!'

This weekend we went to 'Ryan's Bistro'.

I found it on http://www.OmahaNightLife.com.

From there I was bounced to http://www.opentable.com to make reservations.

The online reservation was quick and easy. I will most likely use http://www.opentable.com for future reservations.

Upon arriving at Ryan's Bistro, I gave our name and reservation time. They had that written down, but the person running that Hostess station seemed confused as what to do, because they had me scheduled for a table, but had given it to someone else.

The hostess actually walked away talking on the phone in the middle of trying to figure out what to do about the situation.

A couple of minutes of waiting, and they seated us at an empty table two steps away.

The wait staff was friendly. We ordered and had our meal at the table in a reasonable amount of time. One meal needed a modification and that was made in fairly short order.

We ordered the 'Asian salad' and 'Pork Osso-Bucco'. The salad was a huge amount of spinach leaves and some other items. It was ok, a little heavy on dressing, and seemed to have processed items in it, and not fresh.

The Osso-Bucco was ok. It wasn't bad, just not Wow! It was ordered with a rissoto side, which was a little mushy.

The pricing was a little towards the higher side, which wouldn't matter if the experience was more on the 'Wow' side, but based on this experience it probably won't see a return from us.

It was another time that we could have went to a fast food place, and felt better about spending the money on the meal.

I am finding fewer and fewer people that actually care about their job, or have the initiative to take one tiny step out of their narrow view of their job.

Example: Having a package delivered in Omaha via FedEx. I admit I did not have the suite number for the delivery. It was supposed to be a surprise. I can see putting an exception if it was a large building, but there were two suites. The driver could not bring it upon himself to knock on one of the two doors. He had a fifty percent chance of having the correct door, but will now spend more time to go back with the updated address, because he didn't want to spend the 30 extra seconds it would have taken to knock, ask for the recipient, and if not there, knock on the other door. He had the phone number of the recipient on the package, but didn't call, because he is not 'required' to call.

Example: Oakview Theater, Omaha, NE. Purchasing tickets, no problem. Went into the theater, stopped in the bathroom, some of the stalls were broken off, general dis-repair. Go to the concessions, fifteen minutes to get four orders through the line. The person at the counter was re-doing items on every order, and when I got to the counter, he had to keep going back to the screen for a three item order. Pop, popcorn, Icee. In the theater, the Icee cups that they have, do not fit in the cupholders. The previews were out of focus, and then half-off of the screen. It wasn't until the opening credits that the person running the projector put the display on the screen and in focus.

Example: Johnny's Italian Steakhouse, Village Pointe, in Omaha, NE. You would think that if 'Steak' is in the name of the restaurant, then that would be a safe bet on getting it prepared correctly. Not my luck. When one of the parties at the table ordered a 'well-done' steak, it had to be sent back FOUR times to be cooked all of the way through.

Example: Taco John's, 168th and Dodge. The teenager buying food was short $.02 on her order. Instead of dropping the two cents, the order taker processes the transaction on a debit card. Their transaction volume may be high enough that it doesn't matter, but if there was a transaction fee, that employee could cost the store real money over the course of a year with decisions like that.

How do people go through life without caring about doing the best that they can? Step out of the narrow path that you know about your job, and think about what you could do, instead of what you've always done. Everyone can get in a rut, and have a bad day, but I'm finding that's not usually the case.

I've owned it for a month.

I usually drive an average of 40 miles a day.

But thanks to the two feet of snow that's been dumped in the Omaha area during December, the Camaro has been parked in the garage for most of the month.

It seems as if i've shoveled snow for more hours than I've driven the car.

C'mon Al Gore, where's my global warming?

At least I've had time to setup the garage remote, and all of my important voice dialing with the nifty new bluetooth phone integration in the car.

I thought I didnt need the 2SS with bluetooth, but I am glad I have it in my car. The voice dialing and number recognition works well and the hands free calling comes in quite handy with a manual 6-speed transmission.

More to come later...............