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Today, I was coming back from a Doctor’s appointment and I was bringing back some lunch for one of our teachers. I ran in the building to take the lunch, because I had to take my daughter back to school and get back to class. On the way back, I slipped on the pavement and started falling. I seemed as it was all slow motion. I scraped my knee, and the back of my arm and somehow twisted my ankle. A parent saw me fall, who was talking to my daughter, and said to her “Oh, she’s down!” and came running. I got up slowly and started walking. My ankle hurt a little bit but the more pressure I put on it, the more it hurt. By the time I went to see the nurse, I had a nice size knot. I guess it doesn’t pay to be in a rush. It seems that whenever we are in a rush, God has a way to let you know to slow down.

While waiting at school for my daughter, I started talking with a parent. She was telling me that her daughter wanted to go to this cheerleading competition this weekend. I told her that my daughter wanted to go also. She asked me how old my daughter was and I told her. She was totally amazed and said to me that I didn’t look like I had a daughter that age. When I told her that I had one in college, she about flipped. She said that my husband and I look so young and that she thought we were newly weds. I guess I don’t look as old as feel.

I was on a conference call recently working through some of the problems in launching a new web product. We have been working on this project for some time. Prior to this call we had received the traffic estimates which we thought were extremely low. We got an email the morning of the call, going over some last minute items. One of the items in the email was a new traffic estimate that was 1000 times more than the original estimate.

Of course this grabbed our attention and we could not wait to get an answer to why this number was not revealed before. On the call we asked about the discrepancy between the old and new traffic estimate. We were astonished when we were told that the low number was a metaphorical concept.

My site was compromised by the Linux/Lupper-F worm. Linux/Lupper-F attempts to spread by exploiting the XML-RPC for PHP vulnerability. Thankfully the worm didn’t work… It could not execute a file it copied onto my system. The file it tried to grab was ping.txt and the code tried to create a file temp2006 and execute it. The site that it initially grabed the code form was http://219.84.105.36/text.txt