TxtResponsibly.org (the idea and the website) was created by the staff at Pica Design. Hearing news stories about the dangers of texting while driving, the statistics started to sink in: a distracted driver is 23 times more likely to cause a car accident than an undistracted driver, according to the recent VirginiaTech Transportation Institute Study. To put this into a more familiar context, drunk drivers are 7 times more likely to cause a car accident than sober drivers. The mission of the organization is to raise awareness of the dangers of texting while driving and to prevent harmful injury or death caused by the act of texting recklessly. Would you take the oath? Visit www.txtresponsibly.org.

Hello All,

James here. With Caitlin’s absence we are running out of Kleenex here in the office. We miss you :( BUT, we must go on! We have several new projects coming in and lots of updates to make for past clients. We are going to start making more posts on this blog about the work we’re doing here at Pica Design to keep you all in-the-know ;)

Within the last three weeks we’ve been noticing a show-stopping trend. We’ve found more than one local area site plagued by this notice:

The problem is usually a piece of javascript that a hacker has added to the site. It can easily be removed as long as you can find the infected files and remove the necessary code. We’re trying to figure out if this is a local occurence, or something that’s more widespread. We’d love to hear from you if you have any idea as to the source of the attacks, or encounter other sites that have been attacked. And as always, keep your passwords tough to guess, and close to the chest!