Petra’s Farewell album

I got Petra’s Farewell album for my birthday this morning (Thanks Tim and Ruth)and it is awesome. It’s taken me ages to actually listen to the whole album as I keep “rewinding” (that is such an outdated word nowadays) tracks to listen to them again and again.
It’s Petra as I remember them – there are a couple of songs from their recent songs, but most of them are from the older albums which were much better than their last couple. They have a couple of the old members making an appearance – but Louie Weaver is missing which is a shame as he was a very talented and funny drummer.
Incidentally, this post has an enhanced amazon listing for the cd product – something I’m beta testing with amazon.

secure gmail

I’ve noticed in the past that gmail isn’t secure by default – the initial signon is secured with ssl but then you go back to standard web pages, and therefore open for sniffing. This has prevented me from checking my mail in certain places as I’ve no idea what else is on the network. However, if you go to https://gmail.google.com to sign on, then your ensuing gmail traffic is still encrypted.