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Harry Jerome – New website launched

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Mid-last week, I helped FCV Technologies launch the new Harry Jerome International Track Classic website. This year’s meet will take place at Swangard Stadium on Sunday, June 14th.

This new website replaces a much needed re-design along with some web 2.0 elements in social networking to keep users engaged and more immersed in the track world. The Achilles Track Society is responsible for overseeing the operation and development of the meet. It is headed by Doug Clement (just google him for more information).

FYI, this website is hosted by on the same servers that host my website and picaday.ca….

One slightly controversial item that this website, and many more out there have, is the use of a splash page.  From experience, I have found that end-users seem to dislike the use of splash pages whereas companies seem to enjoy producing them. It seems like most IT people dislike them as well. With Google Analytics installed, will there be a discrepancy with the splash page and the rest of the website in terms of visits? Will some users simply just exit and move on? Or will everyone decide to venture into the rest of the website? We can also compare the average time users look at the splash page. Lets wait a while and see what happens.

Check out the website: www.harryjerome.com

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Semester is officially over

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I wrote my last final exam this morning at 830. My last 3 exams have been at 830am, 3 days in a row. Brutal!
I fly home to Vancouver on Tuesday, April 21st.

From now until I leave, I have lots of things to do.

  • watch the playoffs w/o school looming over me Go Canucks Go!
  • graduating friends from the IT helpdesk who are leaving for the real world, job pending for many
  • Lots of Guelph friends to say by to….just for the summer?
  • clean up my room then pack it up and store it at a friends place
  • once again. HOCKEY! Go canucks Go!

Thankfully the weather outside is beautiful so I can now enjoy full shorts/t-shirt weather. I’ll find something to blab about next week

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Conficker Update

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The media hasn’t mentioned Conficker for a while so I figured I’d give you a little update about what its doing. BTW, I’m referring media as the mainstream news broadcasters, not the tech blogs/sites out there which most IT people tend to always follow.

Its been nearly 2 weeks since the April 1st doomsday. Last week, Conficker decided to silently start updating itself. It began downloading a variation of Waledac on April 7th. It is fake antispyware/antivirus software much like Antivirus 2009. It will attempt to trick you into purchasing its “services” for some amount. If you fall for the trick, congratulations, your credit card is now in the hands of hackers.

Once again, make sure your computer has the Windows updates. More specifically, the MS08-067 patch is installed. Also, make sure you have the latest anti virus updates.
You can also run Malwarebytes which has so far, had a good track record lately in detecting rogue software.

PS: AVG Free users, from experience, this anti virus software is like having no anti virus software installed. Get a new one! (I don’t have time to get into specifics)

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