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I’m going to be redesigning Castro Death Watch soon–as soon as I have some time, which seems to be never these days. The site may actually be down a few hours while this happens. Which means I’ll probably have to it on a weekend.
If you have gotten spam from an e-mail address ending with “@castrodeathwatch.com,” you should know it did not originate from this website/blog.
Once again, this website has become the victim of e-mail “spoofing,” which is where spammers use a phony e-mail address to mask their own.
My apologies for anyone who has been victimized by this but I am also a victim because I have no control over this happening. Just delete the e-mail and do not respond or click on any link in the e-mail to help discourage this type of thing from happening again.
As you can see, I’ve added some new toys to Castro Death Watch, Twitter and Twit Pics. They’ll allow me to post pictures and more right away, regardless of whether I’m at my computer or not, in the event THE big event takes place (or is announced) when I can’t get to my computer.
Other than a few remaining tweaks here and there, and fixing any possible glitches, the site maintenace and redesign are pretty much done.
Let me know what you think by commenting on this post.
NOTE TO WOULD-BE COMMENT SPAMMERS: Don’t even think about it, your spam will be deleted faster than you can say “Fidel Castro Sucks.”
I’ll probably be conducting some site maintenance this weekend, including changing the look and feel of the site. So if you drop by and you see the site looks weird(er than normal), now you know why.
In case you’re wondering why I haven’t posted in a while, it’s simply because I’ve been (and will more than likely continue to be through the end of this month) excruciatingly busy in both my personal and professional lives.
So there you have it. My apologies for any inconvenience. I’ll at least try to post something here and there until my life gets back to (ab)normal. Scout’s honor.
If you’ve received spam from an address ending in “@castrodeathwatch.com,” please know it did not come from me or this blog/website. It seems some spammer is spoofing (faking) his/her/its e-mail addresses by using a made up @castrodeathwatch.com e-mail address.
According to Wikipedia’s e-mail spoofing entry, “By changing certain properties of the e-mail, such as the From, Return-Path and Reply-To fields (which can be found in the message header), ill-intentioned users can make the e-mail appear to be from someone other than the actual sender,” which is apparently what happened.
So if you’ve gotten an e-mail from an @castrodeathwatch.com with a subject line that appears spammy, just delete it. Because I don’t control it, I can’t say if it contains a virus or not, so better safe than sorry. My apologies to you for any inconvenience this event may have caused you.
Just a note to let you know I plan to do some maintenance on the site/blog during the long Thanksgiving Day weekend. So I ask for your patience if, when you happen to come by, the site is temporarily unavailable or looks weird.
Be sure to come back later, refresh your browser and check again.
Thanks.
I’m done tinkering around with FeedBurner’s features, for now (no good website is ever truly completed, they’re all works in progress).
I hope if you’re a subscriber to my feed, you get this. If you didn’t, you won’t know until you visit the site that you might need to resubscribe (my apologies for the inconvenience).
We’ve now made it easier to subscribe with just about any form of news reader or aggregator, regardless of whether it accepts RSS or Atom feeds. You can also subscribe to Castro Death Watch by e-mail, if you prefer. Links to both methods are on the sidebar, on the right of the screen, and they’re closer to the top than before.
You can even check out our new Spring Widget, on the bottom right of the page. You can add one to your own site or blog, or even your desktop, and subscribe that way.
Thanks for your visit and subscription. And your patience.
