The Internet Minefield

'Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…,' intoned the warning on the 1970s movie promo.

With apologies to the producers of 'JAWS,' we change that to 'Just when you thought it was safe to surf the Internet.'
Can you spell, 'Anti virus?'
Of course, Dear Reader, YOU have already installed your favourite anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-everything program. (If not, please go over and do that - - THEN come back here.)
It has been a harrowing month for all of us who are on the Internet first, on April 8, Microsoft carried out their threat to abandon those who had been using windows XP by not giving them protection from hacking.

Radio . . . and Me - 28

On the right side of the radio dial (past all the big rock stations), Halifax boasts a different kind of radio station. Some people are calling it: ‘The Little Station That CAN.’
Here’s how it came to be:
About 20 years ago a radio announcer-wannabe named Wayne Harnett started a radio station in his home in Eastern Passage.

He called it ‘Seaside FM.’
It ran a number of ‘special’ programs around the Christmas season and local summer festival time, at various spots up and down the dial, depending on which frequency the CRTC deemed available on that date. Nothing big; just a few veteran radio announcers