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  • Got an email with an attachment name “file.pif” which classically indicates a virus, right? The body of the message? Are you a spammer? (I found your email on a spammer website!?!) It is stuff like this that makes me feel sorry for the people at work who have to answer questions about technical problems. I…

  • We knew it was coming soon, right? The corner to make either everything better or worse. The release of IE7 can only be less than a year away from now.

  • From phishing to pharming…. In a nutshell, because people are not so sticky with going to web sites from emails <UPDATE>anymore</UPDATE>, the criminals are going to attack web browsers and make the visitors come to them. All those same people who get spyware will have their systems infected with malware which will make them go…

  • I hate it when a medium fish gobbles up a small fish that I like… Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines. It is almost predictable. In less than a month there will be service changes which reduce the functionality. A month after that the site will become sluggish from the failure to keep up with adding servers…

  • Earlier, I was arguing with my bro’s gf that the 80s are going to make a comeback. Apparently this is just because I never really left. You Belong in 1981     1981  If you scored…1950 – 1959: You’re fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in! 1960…

  • Comment spam is a huge problem. No blog is safe. Some people have hopes in the rel=”nofollow” blocking the evil spammers. The idea is that the search engine spiders will not index the pages with the comments, therefore the links will not improve the link popularity of these sites and remove the motivation. Hosted sites…

  •  Reply to this post and… 1. I will tell you what song reminds me of you. 2. I will tell you what celebrity/public/fictional person you remind me of, either personality-wise or looks-wise. 3. I will give you one word that I associate with you when I think of you. 4. I will tell you what…

  • BugMeNot.com Why register for a news web site to read AN article?

  • Max Frisch “Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.” Nicholas Butler “The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”