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Lonely hearts seeking love this Valentine’s Day, be wary. Online dating fraud rose by 150% percent in 2011 as scammers and hucksters turned up the false charm and predatory trolling.

That’s according to data shared with Mashable by fraud protection agency Iovation, which works with several major Internet dating services. Iovation reached that number by employing patented technology that analyzes hardware and software, rather than mine for personal information, says Molly O’Hearn,

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been under fire from world leaders to step down this week. He’s also under fire from hacktivist group Anonymous, who leaked hundreds of his office’s emails on Monday.
While Anonymous is infamous for its hacking know-how, it doesn’t take a genius computer programmer to guess one of the passwords commonly used by Assad’s office accounts: 12345. The string of consecutive numbers is the second-weakest password according to a 2011 study.

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I just wanted to shoot of a quick Christmas greeting to everyone in TF. I hope you got all you wanted.

Here's the follow up to Wedding Pics Part I. Sorry for taking so long but getting all of this uploaded, etc while traveling and recovering from jet lag has proved to be challenging :-)

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend and a special thanks to English_Bob for making the toast. Ked and I really appreciate everyone's friendship and well wishes and wanted to let you guys know how much it meant to us that you could share the evening with us.

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Here's Part I of the wedding photos. This is from the actual ceremony up in Phetchabun and I'll be posting the photos from the reception as soon as they all get uploaded (which might take awhile so maybe after I get back to LA).




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If you have a Facebook account you can associate your Facebook account with your Thailand Friends account. Basically what you get is the ability to just click a button to login as well as post notices about your blog and forum posts on your Facebook Wall.

So I thought I would walk you through the process so you can use this feature if you wanted to.

First off, way up at the top of the page is a button that says "F Connect." If you are already logged into Facebook ...

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About a week ago I came home late one night and there was a gecko hanging out on my wall. A small fry, really. Probably still a baby. But nevertheless there he was paralyzed thinking I might not notice a 2 inch thing standing out against a bright, white wall.

He's not dumb though. As soon as he figured out I was staring directly at him he scampered behind a picture hanging on the wall.

Busted.

I snapped this shot of him (or her . . . who knows?). ...

Some random photos I took hanging around Phetchabun










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Some pics from Songkran in Phetchabun











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One of the things about being Admin is that every time someone gets banned or this or that happens I always get a PM or two from someone I don't even remotely know asking if I would share intimate details of what happened with them.

This happens even when well-known members are involved and I post that we are not going to air dirty laundry. A decision was made, this is what it is, and everything else is between the people involved. Yet, I still get PM's asking me to let them in ...

It's been cold but not snowing cold. But apparently it did get cold enough to snow in Chaing Rai back in 1955.



I think people who view weather anomalies as a sign of something bigger (I heard some banter about the recent cold weather being because of the radiation leak from Japan) should always take into account the long-view of history. :-)

Ked, Bua, Chris, and I went over to the Bangkok International Food Fair 2011 in Bejasiri Park the other day. It runs through tonight if anyone wants to catch the last evening of yummy treats.

Obviously, the world has better things to worry about than my internet connection but I was curious as to whether or not there was any connection between the fact that I couldn't reach the ThailandFriends server and my own other server (as well as many other websites) all last night and this morning.

Sometime last evening the DNS for both servers quit resolving.

ping: cannot resolve thailandfriends.com: Unknown host

I figured it might just be a temporary ...

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