Someone hacked my Gmail!

Not really.

Google released a small update yesterday that adds information about recent activity on your Gmail account to the bottom of the Gmail interface.

Gmail account activity feature The new option in the Gmail interface

It also includes a link to further information, including details of IP addresses and methods that have recently been used to access your account. If anyone has accessed your mail in any way, it will be reported here.

Gmail Activity Information Argh! What is that?!

I checked mine the minute it showed up in my inbox, and was shocked to see a bunch of IP addresses listed, when I hadn’t been anywhere near my computer in the last five hours.

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Jungledisk - easy cheap reliable backup on any platform

http://jungledisk.com/ Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 - JungleDisk via kwout

I haven’t written for ages, because nothing has grabbed me enough to make me desperate to write. That was until tonight when I finished installing “Jungle Disk” on my Ubuntu laptop, and realized that I’d finally found a product that works exactly as promised, out-of-the-box on multiple platforms that provides a fantastic service.

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Starting the Google Treasure Hunt: How to do the first three questions

Google has been running a “treasurehunt” with unspecified prizes up for grabs for the fastest times to complete the tasks. What it amounts to is four questions spaced over a month, that you can log onto in your own time and attempt to nut out. The questions are randomly generated, but are of a different type each week. The first week was a number/maths problem, the second was a computer/file problem, the third a logic (and slightly computer network) problem. I haven’t seen the final fourth question yet.

I thought I’d jot down how I answered the questions - not my particular answers - as they will be different for other people, but the methods for answering the questions which are the same for each of the four question types.

Please note that I cannot finish the treasure hunt. I got stuck at question four. I wrote up how I did questions one to three before I’d done four and it just seemed like a waste not to post them.

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Pain and Agony Awareness Day

27/365: fractured reality/grace under pain Creative Commons License photo credit: Journal Girl Kira

Sorry ’bout the title. It’s Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day again. I haven’t done anything this year to raise awareness, except I’ve tried to sum up Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia in 140 characters on Twitter.
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