Ronnie Sherard

From the 2009 Offutt Air Force Base fireworks display:

Just demonstrating the AV-8B takeoff and landing. Sweet plane!

I haven’t really used craigslist much, but thought I would try selling my iPod on there. Hello phishermen! Here are the phishing email addresses I have received from my craigslist posting:

Christian Woods (christian.woods58@yahoo.com>)
“Am buying it for my pastor’s wedding gift and i know it will make a very good gift for him.Please provide me with your paypal email address or your full names and address so i can send you a money order,this is because am out of town.if you still have it available.Hoping to hear from you soon.” – Reported as phishing

Mark Whittemoore (marmoore1@gmail.com)
“Thanks for your response, I will like to buy this for my son schooling in Nigeria as Birthday Gift,Please I will like you to withdraw the advert on net cause i am buying from you now…i will be paying you $100 for shipping through GLOBAL EXPRESS MAIL (EMS) and i will be making the payment through my PayPal account get me your name and PayPal account,looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks” – Reported as phishing

joy sweet (joysweet95@gmail.com)
“Hello
Thank for your reply? Am very interested in buying your item and i will like to buy this item now reason is that i want to buy it for my son and i will be offer you $450 for the item so i will provide you $100 for the shipping cost so provide me your paypal email so that i can make the payment. Thank” – Reported as phishing

naomi lopez (lopeznaomi75@yahoo.com)
“Hello,
thanks for the reply,I’m just interested in the ipod, just wanted to get your attention. I’d love to buy the ipod as a perfect gift for my fiancee. He just got transferred to one of our international offices (chevron) oversea and i will like it to be delivered to him because I am currently out of town doing a little work for the company. I’ll be paying through pay pal because it is efficient and i believe $80 will be enough to take care of shipment fees and other expense incurred, so kindly get back to me with your confirm paypal account id, so i can go ahead to effect the payment.” – Reported as phishing

Mrs jane chatter (janechatter7@sify.com)
“Thanks for your response, I would have come to pick it up myself but am out of town at the moment, am buying the item as a birthday gift for my neice who is in west africa she works with the W.H.O there, i will like you to help me deliver it to her before her birthday, and will be adding $120 for shipment expenses through postal service (USPS).Payment will be through paypal,just send me paypal money request to (janechatter@gmail.com) so i can make payment immediately and if you dont have an account go to paypal website and sign up, its free.

Mrs Jane” – Reported as phishing

I then received an email this morning from “PayPal” saying I needed to ship to Nigeria and would be paid once the tracking information was confirmed. It came from “service@paypal.com” (paypalwebpayment@mail2Consultant.com) and was immediately forwarded to PayPal as a spoofed email. Here is a small section of the header:


Sender: marmoore1@gmail.com
Received: by 10.216.52.196 with SMTP id e46mr2033202wec.124.1246267032930;
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:17:12 -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:17:12 +0100
Message-ID: <614c28400906290217j41e0e486udba005ae9646754d@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: SHIPPING VERIFICATION IS NEEDED *** CONFIRMED FROM PAYPAL
From: "service@paypal"

Notice anything?

Needless to say, I don’t think I will be using craigslist anymore….

In working on one of my pages, I was looking for a solution to using javascript for the calculation of the page height. I finally found some examples and was able to get it working, but I had another problem. I’m using AJAX to load data into another div on the page. So, when that data would load, it has a good chance of extending my page past its original height. This causes problems when I call the overlay to shade the background for my popup. Here’s the solution I came up with:

function pageHeight() {
var pageHeight = document.getElementById("outerWrapper").offsetHeight;
if (document.getElementById("viewCards").offsetHeight) {
if (document.getElementById("viewCards").offsetHeight > document.getElementById("outerWrapper").offsetHeight) {
pageHeight = document.getElementById("outerWrapper").offsetHeight + (document.getElementById("outerWrapper").offsetHeight - document.getElementById("viewCards").offsetHeight);
} else {
pageHeight = document.getElementById("outerWrapper").offsetHeight;
}
}
//alert(pageHeight); For debugging only...
document.getElementById("bgShade").style.minHeight = pageHeight+"px";
}

This function is initially called using onload in the body tag. In my AJAX script, I call it again when loading the data into the viewCards div, which calculates the difference in the viewCards div and outerWrapper div. I then set my height of my background shader to this value.

I’ve been running Windows 7 RC on my laptop for a couple of weeks now and I really like it! I think Windows 7 is everything Microsoft expected Vista to be, but fell off the bus somewhere along the way. My laptop is not a monster of a computer. It has a 1.3 Ghz processor and 1 GB of RAM. When I tried to load Vista on it, it choked. It ran fine until I tried running a lot of programs. Windows 7 is the complete opposite. It runs smoother, doesn’t bog my system down, and has some GREAT features.

Have you ever worked on a document, or several for that matter, only to find it dropped out of the recent documents menu? I’ve lost a few here and there, but was able to find them with a search. Windows 7 now allows you to see what documents you were working on with a particular program. My Word, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks shortcuts all have a sub menu showing me what is in the history. I think that is SWEET! Another nice feature is the side bar no longer exists. You can put gadgets anywhere on the desktop! There are a lot of other nice features I will right about soon!

I seldom wear my uniform when traveling. Typically, I just wear something comfortable. However, when we flew back from St. Louis this past week after a conference, we didn’t have time to change. While in the airport, I was shocked with how many people came up to us, thanked us, and asked us what we did in the military. One woman even came up and gave us a hug! It really made me feel like there are a lot of people out there who appreciate us, the men and women of the United States Armed Forces!

Well, I received my two boxes of 2009 Press Pass Premium today. This makes the fourth and fifth box of cards this year. Toned down quite a bit from years past, but that’s ok. I have other things to focus on. The look and odds of Premium gave me the desire to try my luck. I didn’t do too bad! The Joey Logano card is #20/99, so it’s my first door number card. The two autographs are my first of Michael Waltrip and Matt Kenseth. So, I guess it was a day of firsts! Not too bad… But, no Jimmie hits…

2009 Michael Waltrip Premium Signatures

2009 Matt Kenseth Premium Signatures

2009 Brian Vickers Hot Threads

2009 Joey Logano Hot Threads

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2009 Press Pass Premium NASCAR Racing Base Set (1-80)

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09 Press Pass Premium NASCAR Threads/Firesuit Hot Pack!

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2009 Press Pass Premium Scott Speed Auto Autograph Rc

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2000 Jeff Gordon Press Pass Premium Reflector Card #36

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Richmond was, well, Richmond. Racing under the lights with what seemed to be every man for himself. There were plenty of wrecks for the likes of Jeff Burton, Mark Martin, Martin Truex Jr., Carl Edwards, and even Jimmie Johnson. In the end, Kyle Busch emerged victorious for his fourth win of the season. One can only wonder if Kyle will implode again at the end of this season. Or, can he actually rise to the top and be crowned the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion? We’ll see. Only 16 more races until the chase is set!

My fantasy team didn’t fare too bad. Here are the results:

Clint Bowyer – Started 12th; Finished 18th; Led 7 laps
Martin Truex Jr. – Started 4th; Finished 22nd; Led 22 laps
Ryan Newman – Started 10th; Finished 4th; Led 45 laps
Marcos Ambrose – Started 21st; Finished 11th

It’s off to Darlington next week for more Saturday night racing!

It was a gorgeous day today. Taylor and I went to get our hair cut, so I grabbed the camera on the way out the door. I’m glad I did! Some great shots, I think!

I went out to the parade ground over lunch. Too bad the clouds were still hanging around, otherwise I think they would have turned out a lot better!