I’m thrilled to let you know I’ll be a guest blogger on Steve Thomas’s blog, A Life Change For You tomorrow.

Steve was a guest at my blog, Kreative Ramblings, yesterday, October 22, and so I traded a post with him that will be published at his blog tomorrow.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to stop over to see what else Steve has. There’s great video there, too.

Yours in learning through guest blogging,

I’m thrilled to announce that I have connected with some really interesting entrepreneurs at several of the forums to which I belong.

So, over the next week or two, they will guest blog here and at Kreative Ramblings one of my other blogs, to share with you their knowledge and expertise of their various niches, products, and/or services.

Steve Thomas of Life Change For You is one of the first bloggers. His post will be at Kreative Ramblings.

Yours in guest blogging

P.S. I’ll also be guest blogging for them and I’ll let you know when those posts go up so you can pop on by!

James Derk, Scripps-Howard News Service computer columnist, recently wrote about a “security gap” issue with Windows XP.

Rather than try to paraphrase Derk’s article, which was published in our local newspaper, the Globe-Gazette and risk losing the emphasis, I’m posting the article in its entirety. Except for the link to the Microsoft Support Web site. Mr. Derk used a “tiny url” link. Instead, I have included the whole link.

The article is as follows:

“Microsoft has taken the unusual step of releasing information on a security hole in Windows XP that it hasn’t fixed yet, so I am using my space to help secure your computer.

First things first. Microsoft has acknowledged that a gaping hole in Windows can allow a malicious user to take over your PC All you need to do is visit a hacked Web site using Internet Explorer to allow this to happen.

While MS works on a patch, the company recommends interim steps to ward off hackers. You can get the fix for this very serious exploitation at Microsoft Support.

I strongly recommend applying this fix to every Windows XP machine you have as soon as possible.

I strongly urge you to take a few other steps.

First, copy the contents of your “My Documents” folder to another hard drive. (I assume you have a flash drive, an external drive or even a DVD burner. Just do something to protect your data.)

Second. Go the “Start” menu and run “Windows update.” Let it run and install all of the “critical” updates. Your machine may have to reboot a few times. Microsoft may ask you to install Internet Explorer8; if you have a home computer with 1GB of RAM or more, go ahead; on a business computer I would not install it until told to by your IT department.

Finally, I assume you’ve installed an anti-virus product. If so, run a full scan. (Most products are set to run” quick” scan as to not annoy you.) If you do not have a product, go to free Avg.com and install the fee version of AVG.

The bottom line; you must run an anti-virus product if you run Windows. As the saying goes, when you go online you’re interfacing with every computer that computer has ever interfaced with. And you can’t do that without protection.

James Derk owns CyberDads, a computer repair firm. Email him at Jim@cyberdads.com”

Last week I posted that I was working on an ebook to help the “beginner” who wants to start an online business.

It’s finished now, so I’m making the link live. You can get in line right now for your copy.

Read all about it here. You’ll also be able to access the “Get it now” button from there.

And if you have questions, be sure to contact us.