Protesters at SJSU [opinion]

Protesters have been on campus protesting what they are alleging are atrocities being committed by Israel against Palestinian civilians.

• Israel had been under rocket attack for eight years.
• Recently Hamas has been firing missiles from Palestinian population centers in Gaza, using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
• The Hamas rockets have been targeted at Israeli cities hoping to kill civilians.
• I wonder how long we would have tolerated rockets being targeted at our cities (like San Jose) before we would respond militarily?

The death of Palestinian civilians is a tragedy. I totally defend the right of the protesters to protest. I just think they're wrong to blame only Israel and not blame Hamas.

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More Malware Attacks on Macs

According to the Register:

Less than a week after researchers spotted new malware targeting naive Mac users, two additional titles have been spotted...

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Downadup a serious threat to PCs

Worm threatens about a third of all PCs experts warn. See article in Network World:

The Downadup worm—also called Conflicker—has now infected an estimated 10 million PCs worldwide, and security experts say they expect to see a dangerous second-stage payload dropped soon.

"It has the potential to infect about 30% of Windows systems online, a potential 300 to 350 million PCs," says Don Jackson, director of threat intelligence in the counter threat unit at SecureWorks.

Family Visit

Sue's brother John is visiting California and staying with their mom in Campbell. We are getting ready to meet him for lunch.

Downtown Businesses Hurting

Closed, not to open again
This recession is getting deeper. Are we headed for Great Depression 2.0? More and more local businesses are closing and many more are laying off. I spoke with a local business owner who she does not know if they will survive. Downtown businesses and even the theater has been laying off staff and liquidating inventory.

Only time will tell if this is GD 2.0. But, things are getting worse.

Students happy returns

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February B&BB Newsletter

Here is the February 2009 issue of the Black and Blue Bottom, the Almaden Cycle Touring Club newsletter. I layout the newsletter for this club. These are in PDF format:

• Normal version for viewing.
• Special "two page up" version for printer.

Kiosk by Art Building at SJSU

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Winter Light at SJSU

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Ruchi's birthday at the help desk

Ruchi Binjola's birthday was a cause of celebration at our help desk. We have a great staff almost all of whom are thousands of miles from home. So, we try to create a small bit of home here at the help desk.

Ruchi is an important person on our staff.

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