Hello!

I just read a post in the Guardian (UK newspaper) technology blog about a case of them finding out that a Gmail account had been entered by a Chinese hacker. That’s kind of scary for me, I don’t know whether it strikes you that way or not. I have about 15 Gmail accounts. In any case, being thoroughly British and complete, they also recommend a way to check to discover if your account has been hacked, and if so, what to do.

Here’s their conclusion:

Even so, it’s clearly a good idea to check your Gmail status from time to time.
To do that, log in, go to Settings on the top right, and scroll down to the bottom. There you’ll find some text in green telling you how much of your allowance you’re using; and below that a line saying “Last account activity: … minutes ago at this IP..” and a hyperlink to Details. Click that for a view of your account access history. And make sure that your Alert Preference is set for “Show an alert for unusual activity.”

And the source is http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/25/gmail-china-hacking. I followed up and happily discovered that none of my accounts have been compromised by some Chinese or any other person or “bot”. Whew! I did discover that my ISP’s IP address range has expanded since I started with them, so I modified my account in StatCounter.com (free advert for a free service) to reflect that – it keeps me from counting my own hits on our websites’ statistics.

Thought you might like to know – and you can spread the word by telling people that you saw it first on Practical-Greenology-dot-com!

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Ciao for now,

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Craig for Sue & Craig Websites

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GoogleMail Hacked By Chinese?

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Hi everybody!

Time to blow our own horn a little – exactly 365 days ago, we published the first post on Green Home MegaStore, our first website! It was not a very exciting post, as you can imagine, but we’ve come a long way since then!

Thanks to Sue’s relentless backup – and of course her priceless prose as well – we’re well on the way up! Thanks!

We’re looking forward to the new changes that have just begun. By the way, I was looking and in the past 52 weeks, we’ve published 54 posts on GHMS! All original and unique, too, but not necessarily long. Some have been really analytical, and others just a joke that hit us as being funny on that day.

That was the third version of the website, but the first published on the greenhomemegastore.com domain, and the first published as a WordPress blog. Prior to that, there had been two html sites, the first one published as green02.tenuta.info (there were five total, green01 through green05) and the second one as greenhomemegastore.tenuta.info. Needless to say, those are now no longer in existence, not even as redirects. Not only did we change domains, we also started GHMS on a new hosting service that had a one-click WordPress installation (the original hosting we still have still does not have that on our server!). We just are slowly moving sites off the old server and will eventually close out the (today, expensive) account.

We are still with the original theme that we started with, “Outdoorsy”, and I have to say that I still really like it. We just recently upgraded to the latest version of the theme, and are working with a few wrinkles that still need to be ironed out.

We hope that you all will stay tuned here on Practical Greenology – because here is where most of the future posts will be, and we will probably move most of the existing posts on GHMS to this site as well.

Ciao for now,

Craig for Sue & Craig Websites

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Happy Birthday To Us!

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Hi again!

We (that’s Sue and I) have been doing some brainstorming about what we can do to improve our selection so that you get the best from us that we can deliver, and get it efficiently as well. What we have come up with now is to move all the posts – past, present, and future – from Green Home MegaStore into the Practical Greenology site (this one) and put the Green Home MegaStore back to it’s original purpose: a Green Home Store for your use and enjoyment. It will also put Practical Greenology back where it belongs, as a first-class discussion forum for new and obscure environmental things that might otherwise go unnoticed. There may still be a few posts on GHMS, but the majority of the posts will be here – at Practical Greenology – in the future.

We will also clean up the stores and make the entire process more enjoyable for you while you’re shopping. In the somewhat more distant future, we hope to install our own products for sale in the store, in addition to the things we have from other places. We will try to keep the system as simple as possible for this as well, since there’s no reason to make anything more complicated than absolutely necessary!

Remember this theme?

By the way, did you know you can get to Practical Greenology two ways? Yes, it’s true. both http://practical-greenology.com and http://practicalgreenology.com end up at the same place. Handy in case you can’t remember whether there’s a hyphen in the name or not. ;-)

It will take us some time to get all the changes made, but we think you will enjoy having everything centralised in the future. The themes on the two sites will remain the same, except we’re trying to keep up with the changes to Suffusion (the new theme for Practical Greenology) that seem to be coming fast and furious!

Ciao for now,

Craig for Sue & Craig Websites

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More New Year Changes!