Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though my opinion will not be shared by the majority of those who read this, I greatly appreciated the article appearing in the BBC News, Is Google too Powerful. Not only did the writer, Bill Thompson, challenge this continuing nonsense about webloggers ‘replacing’ mainstream Captital-J Journalism, he also exposed the falsity of the […]
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All I want is a server all my own
My two year weblogging anniversary is coming up, April 2nd. Two years ago on that day, I signed up for a Manila account at burningbird.manilasites.com, though I took a hiatus in the middle of the year due to my divorce and subsequent move to San Francisco. Some of the entries have been deleted but some are […]
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Variations on a nasty theme
Not long after I went to bed last night, my friendly neighborhood spammer changed the name he was using while sending his or her virus-laden emails and I woke this morning to 803 new emails with variations of failed delivery, thanks for signing up, and messages of rejection due to the presence of a virus. […]
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Getting hammered
Someone used a fake email address from my ‘yasd.com’ domain to send a huge spam emailing and I’m getting hammered with email rejections and mail delivery system failures. If I find the little creep that did this, I’m going to take out that virus code someone embedded in my comments and use it to fry […]
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Referrers, just for fun
The last two weeks have been long indeed, and it hit me tonight that I’m tired, and that I really need to get away from the computer. My back is doing extremely well, and I want to get out for a nice long, gentle hike. There’s also an Art Deco neighborhood somewhere in St. Lou […]