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Burningbird

How many emails?

If I’m part of the squids, at least I’m a Giant Squid if my email popularity has anything to do with it. I woke up this morning to find 56,770 emails in my general email account. It would seem a host of hackers used ‘burningbird.net’ to send both phishing and virus emails throughout the world. […]

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Critters

Squid blogging

Thanks to my fellow Sisters of the Giant Squid, I discovered there are two weblogs devoted exclusively to squid blogging: Squidblog and Squidblog. (I think a perfect squid weblog name would be “Architeuthis Blog” myself, but this might be a bit obscure.) Both sites provide a wealth of information about the world of squids, including a re-release of photos of the Colossal, […]

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RDF

Syndication feeds are hazardous to your humor

I have found in my years of being on the absolute, outer fringes of the world of syndication, that increasing exposure to efforts related to syndication feeds, formats, development, and/or other related work can have a serious impact on your sense of humor–not to mention your sense of perspective. That’s why I like to focus […]

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Travel

Footprints

This is for Maria, a fellow hunter of giant squid. One day, not so long ago, I visited Los Angeles for whatever reason and since I’d never been there before I decided to do some sightseeing. I rode a bus out to Hollywood to look around and when I stepped off, I found myself in a […]

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Critters Weather

More weather talk

We are never going to get any rain. Even now, I can look at the Weather Underground radar and see a huge storm system break apart and dissipate as soon as it hits the high pressure area hovering over our city. And they’ve issued another heat alert, which means another day without walking. But tomorrow, […]