AG offers video game rating tips for parents:
Imagine that. A state Attorney General and a Democrat to boot that isn’t overreacting about video games.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has actually reminded parents to check the ESRB ratings of games before buying them for children.
A politician with common sense? *gasp* Our hats off to AG Hood.
Thanks to Game Politics for the tip.
I received the following e-mail from reader Ervin about his job search on craigslist…
I have posted my resume on Craigslist and you wouldn’t believe all the scam job offer’s that are emailed to me daily. I finally did get a local legitimate job in my field (I started today and was called by the Director of Manufacturing to interview last week). I am glad that I was able to get this job. But, these scammer’s have sunk to new lows by using the Coca-Cola name to scam people now. Were you aware of this new scam? I am going to
paste it for you to share below.Thank you,
ErvinHere it is:
JOB OFFER!!!
Monday, November 17, 2008 12:23 AM
From:”Admin Admin”Dear Sir/Ma
You’re Ref: 2810/04/TF-ATW
Coca – Cola Company offer you the position of offshore financial manager
..
This is to inform you that after critical and proper review of your new contact email address, we are please to inform you that you have met the requirements needed for the post of Payment Officer / Book Keeper with The Coca – Cola Company.Furthermore, Your duties as the Payment Officer / Book Keeper is to collect payments from our numerous customers within your region, process the payments, deduct 20% of the amount issued to you as your personal bonus and you transfer the rest of the funds to our main account officer whose information will be provided to you in due time.
This Job position is Temporary and does not require a specific work time frame. All payments will be mailed directly to you via your mailing /contact address. This position became necessary when lots of payments is being received from various customers from different regions / states within the United States and Canada per day and it became very tedious to process and sort, as a result of this, the search for representatives to sort / process payments on behalf of the company became highly necessary.If you are interested in this Job offer…kindly get back with the following information written below as soon as possible:
All respond or question should be email to the company private email
(SOPHISTICATED15127@HOTMAIL.COM)FULL NAMES: _________________________________
GENDER:_________________________________
DATE OF BIRTH:_________________________________
NATIONALITY:_________________________________
COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:___________________________
MARITAL STATUS:_________________________________
HOME ADDRESS (Where payment will be sent to)
STREET:_________________________________
CITY:_________________________________
STATE:_________________________________
ZIP CODE:_________________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER(S):___________________________
SCAN A COPY OF YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE:___________Thank you very much and we anticipate your working with The Coca – Cola
Company.Sincerely,
The Coca – Cola Company Information Systems, Inc.
Computer Systems Division
Sam Williams.
(+447031918592)
They also included a website that identified Coke as being at a thecoca-colacompany URL. Coke’s actual URL is coca-cola.com. And I’m pretty sure that a major corporation like Coke wouldn’t send out an e-mail that said: “we are please to inform you.” I don’t think Coke would use Hotmail addresses either. This is just the phony check scam in a fake red and white package.
Sentenced In March, Murder Victim’s Classmate Soon Will Be Eligible For Parole:
For those of you who have been reading this site for a while now may remember the murder of Ashton Glover. She was the 16-year-old girl from Texas who was shot in the head by her ‘friend’ Matt McCombs. McCombs shot her out of what he called ‘morbid curiosity’. Also in the truck at that time was Sean Brown.
McCombs was sentenced to 50 years for Ashton’s murder. Brown was sentenced to 10 for helping McCombs try to hide Ashton’s body. But as we all know 10 years doesn’t always add up to 10 years.
In January of 2009, Brown will be eligible for parole. If paroled that would be less than a year Brown spent in prison on a 10-year sentence.
Ashton Glover’s mother, Carolyn Sue Smith, is outraged over this and is requesting everyone in her community to write the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Board to try to keep Brown in prison. But why just stick to the community when you can get the whole internet involved.
Thanks to reader Letha I have all the information you need to send the Texas Parole Board a letter of protest.
His file has ALREADY been sent to the Huntsville Parole Board Office and they have to respond to him by January 24, 2009. I would write letters and send to both the Austin address and to the Huntsville address or fax to Huntsville.
Huntsville Parole Board
P.O. Box 599
Huntsville, TX 77342
936/291-2161 Phone
936/291-8367 FaxTexas Board of Pardons & Paroles
Correspondence Department
P. O. Box 13401
Capital Station
Austin, Texas 78711SID # 07789006
TDCJ # 01491487
BROWN, SEAN HUSTON
CURRENT FACILITY: NEWTON COUNTY
PAROLE ELIGILIBITY DATE 01-24-2009You will need to put the offender’s name and TDCJ number under the address and each page of the letter.
And please people if you are going to write a letter or fax please be professional about it. Please do not use profanity or any kind of threatening mannerisms in your letter.
Nebraska fears rush to drop off kids before haven law change:
While the Nebraska Legislature was holding an emergency session to see what could be done about their very loose safe haven laws three more kids were dumped off.
This past Thursday a 14-year-old boy and his 17-year-old sister were dropped off with the 17-year-old girl running off from the hospital. Also, a 5-year-old was dropped off at a different hospital in Omaha. Also, the article states that the DSD from Miami who dumped off his kid flew in so he doesn’t get the mile traveling record.
Legislators say it will be at least a week before the law can be changed. So now the Breeders still have time to dump off their kids before the holidays.
Thanks to Ed for the tip.
Jonesboro shooter sentenced on drug, theft charges:
Mitchell Johnson, he of the Jonesboro shootings, was sentenced to 12 years behind bars on state drug and theft charges. If you’ll recall Johnson was arrested for using the ATM card of a customer that dropped the card at the mini-mart that Johnson worked at.
This sentence will be served after his 4-year federal sentence on weapons and drug charges.
I had the opportunity and pleasure yesterday to attend Charlotte WordCamp. Basically, it was a meeting of bloggers to discuss ideas and network. You can read an article about it here.
If you’re a blogger and you have a chance to attend a WordCamp do it. If you do go I strongly urge you to take at least two things, a notebook (like an actual notebook that you write on), and business cards. If you don’t have business cards get them printed up before you go. I lost count how many people asked me for a card and I felt like a total dweeb not having them.
It was great to meet a lot of area bloggers and connect with them. I wish I could have remembered everyone’s name. Unfortunately, I have a mind like a wiffle ball. My Asus EEE PC, aka The Stealth Computer, was a real conversation starter too. It was weird having people ask me questions about my blogs only because I’m not used to wearing my blogger pants in public.
The highlight of WordCamp for me was Mark Jaquith. Not only did he give us an in-depth preview of WordPress 2.7 but the best part was that he knew who I was. Granted we both do work for b5media but still, it was immensely cool.
There was an afterparty at Ri-Ra but of about 120 participants at WordCamp, only 6 went to the afterparty.