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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Morphing URLs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I signed up at Blogrolling.com to manage my blogroll, and you can the results in this page. Scroll down and you’ll see the ten most recently active webloggers in my virtual neighborhood. Click the “more…” link and you’ll go to my Blogroll page. I’m using the blogrolling.com feed a couple of different […]