For the first time in 6 years, Japan has raised its bank base rate from 0% to 0.25%. More details

After some respite, spammers are again using zombies that are attempting to compromomise the web feedback forms for dragonthougths.com. The counter measures seem to remain sucessful, but all the new zompbie IP addresses are being added to the banned lists, for additional safety, in case they are used to try alternative techniques.