Well, all but 10 people last night missed a fun and informative time about buidling your own website from the bottom up and getting a good baseline understanding of how html, browsers and the like all work.

Veronica Cannon, LTOL's webmaster and owner gave a very much hands on, do it yourself training class on exactly that: "How to Build Your Own Website." Everyone got to see how tags work, how changes to a website can be immediate and that making a website isn't something that you should be afraid of but that it might take a professional after all.

The next class is on digital photos and it is a great follow up to this web class. Call early as seats fill up quickly, we had to close the website class because well there just wasn't anymore room.

Good job Veronica!

Well it has come down to it, finally. If you file share, BearShare, Limewire, Morpheus or whatever you want to call the program you are using to share music you are putting yourself at risk. No if ands or buts, you are at risk at losing your identity.

In Seattle a man has pleaded guilty to stealing information from people using LimeWire, tax records, credit info and student loan applictions of more then 50 people so he could purchase things online. How would you like to find out that you suddenly have a student loan and owe 10K? And it isn't that you have to prove that you took the loan or that the loan company does, you would have to prove you didn't take the loan out.

Citigroup has said it is looking into a breach where names and Social Security numbers were taken from 5200 accounts and were sent over the internet by an employee using LimeWire. Cool huh? A company you think you can trust leaks your info because some 19 year old kid decides to file share the latest Video or Music file.

Pfizer said that they leaked 17,000 Social Security Numbers of current and former employees when a spouse downloaded file sharing software onto a company laptop. OOPS!

Going past these problems, looking at the facts? File sharing is illegal, you aren't permitted to share music, videos and the like with your friends, sorry that is how it works, you agree to this whenever you open the package up and the 'Use Policy' is on the CD or DVD and says you agree when you open the package. If you don't agree? Don't buy it.

We at LTOL could go on and on about "Intellectual Property" but we also know that anyone that is file sharing, is probably going to continue to do so, as well as continue to get malware, greyware and the occasional virus on their machine. Nothing we say can do anything about it. Maybe though when that same person gets an invoice or a bill from Amazon.com or a new credit card statement saying that they owe 10K they might think twice about the idea how unfair it is that Apple for example on iTunes wanted to charge them .99 for a song.

Daylight Savings Time starts at 1AM Sunday, please don't forget to check your computers and your clocks.