-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On August 1st...Maxine Brandt died in Hospital. The COD was a chronic lung infection. Below I am including the Post I placed on PGPNET, in addition to some comments included to other folks.
*********************************************************************** Maxine was the 2nd PGP contact I ever made and at the time of her passing was the Very Best On-Line Friend I've ever had. She "demanded" that I switch to Foxfire & Thunderbird. (of course, She always said that if Mozilla ever caved in and allowed T-Bird to archive decrypted mail, She'd drop it and never trust it again.) When I wanted to "try" GPG she steered me to Nullify and told me to "Stay There until another Nullify version is released!" Yet, whenever another build of GPG came along she patiently walked me through installing it and getting it working. Below is the Post to PGPNET..... ************************************************************************* She was a Journalist for RFO based in Tahiti. She loved working on stories about Government corruption. She broke the story about the 800+ gov't employees receiving Direct Deposit paychecks to a Bank in the Caymen Islands. Trouble was, no one could actually "lay hands" on any of them. Caused a topple of the local Government in Tahiti that actually resulted in "the People" occupying the President's House while he was in Paris trying to "explain things." The lung condition was the result of something toxic she breathed while covering a story several years ago. After the story broke in Tahiti she was transfered to London (I actually met her as She passed through Atlanta), but due to the weather, had much trouble breathing so requested re-assignment back to either Tahiti or New Zealand. She got Tahiti; and I learned how to "cuss" in French as she described "passing her things" in a plane while they were traveling by ship in the other direction. She mailed me a huge box of software to forward for her, but being lazy I was able to send it right back to her. Of course I kept the CD's she earmarked for me, that's how I managed to upgrade to M$ 2000 Pro from 98se at no cost. I am also in love with the gift of Executive Diskkeeper Pro 9....automatic defragging whenever it is needed. I was in the middle of learning how to compile GPG Binaries when my old PC failed. Once I have time/energy to parse my old HD (now a slave on this PC) for the saved emails and "tools" I hope to continue learning on my own. I still have a long list of questions I was gonna ask her once I got back on-line. S*** Happens! **************************************************************************** She did once tell me that she found "Rites of Death" very depressing and when Her time came....she hoped that all of her friends would get together for a fantastic Chineese Banquet followed by all night drinking & dancing. JOHN Timestamp: Sun 21 August 2005, 12:24 AM --400 (Eastern Daylight Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/5ztc6 Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: http://www.gswot.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDCAIOnCmZhrerneURA8qnAJ0fpZhv/qBibNjIwF0oBpPIMbmBTQCgrOqk R8WAYcEfq3qbQE68n4i2XlI= =SO1n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
