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JIBS and OTHERS - HACKED Owning a computer used to be a big deal, just like having a color TV was a WOW factor for a family. Now everyone has them. Even keyboard terrorists and loonies of all stripe. We all know about the "online disinhibition effect." No one can see you or hear you so you can be big and bad behind a keyboard, right? You can imply, smear or hack up someone's hard work and just laugh about it right? In my opinion, WRONG. Click BagelBlogger and Walking on Fire for their posts already covering the JIB awards site being hacked. Today I got home after dropping my kids at school and doing some important errands and sat down to take a look at my RSS readers. I saw something I found important I went to blog about it - but discovered that my blog had been hacked. At first I blamed myself - thought in my stupidity I'd inserted some bad code. But no, there was a black box and then in my template, literally chunks of the code that make up my blog were g...

JIB AWARDS 2007 NOMINATIONS CLOSE TONIGHT Let's all have fun. There are some truly amazing posts and marvelous sites nominated. I hope everyone who sees this takes the time to really look at some of the nominees. I haven't seen one blog that was nominated that isn't worth some of your time and thought to at least take a look & appreciate! My thanks to JBlogs , which has helped me find a whole new world of stuff to read and consider That's what blogging is about, after all. That said.... Pathological Competitiveness by Kathy Krajco I often describe narcissists as essentially mental three-year-olds, and troubled ones at that. But, as with anything, you can view it from different angles to see more about it. Another way to understand narcissists is as pathologically COMPETITIVE. They compete for every bit of ego gratification as if it were the last bit on earth. As if they were starved for it. They gotta have it all . All the attentions, all th...