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You know with the real flood of email I get (about half a million pieces in 2005 alone), every once in awhile something happens that make me laugh about it. The other day I was looking through my spam, and saw this. It just struck me funny. Spammers use bots to insert names and phrases […]
Check out the image below. It’s a screen dump from my mail client, Pegasus Mail. This is the copy of the program I use at work. I use it at home as well, but this is my office copy only. Specifically, I want you to check out the number of emails in the sent folder. […]
Here’s another one from the “disturbing information about the electronic age” department.. Apparently, if you have about $100, you can pay a website and have them get a log of outbound phone calls from a cel phone. That’s fairly annoying. I’m usually not one to go around waving the “privacy” banner, because I feel that […]
I’m from Philadelphia, and I know the politics there fairly well. I can’t imagine my old town is at the forefront of a move to bring either free/dirt cheap wireless internet to all. Check out this plan – it’s quite amazing. Although since it is government issued, one would have to think it would get […]
Signed up for Gmail this morning. It’s got some interesting ways of dealing with email. But I wondered how fast it would take to fill up the thing with spam, so if you’re reading this, send me some spam here: ilovespam@gmail.com :)
A couple of months ago a competitor in my industry’s network was hacked, and source code to one of their major projects was stolen. While I don’t know EXACTLY how this was done, it did cause ripples in my industry, with several other companies (mine included) making changes “in the name of security”. Some I […]
I’ve decided to stop with the spam count on the left side of the page I was keeping for a couple of reasons. It was taking too much time to put it all together – I was spending far more time on that then it deserved. I don’t use the same Spam software anymore. The […]
Was reading some blogs this morning, and ran across this one. I really liked the “Hello” graphic in the upper left hand corner. :)
Updated the spam count for this morning. The numbers on the left are what I delete from my SpamKiller dead mail folder EACH DAY. Did some computing this morning on the numbers.. Since roughly 6PM on Friday the 22nd (that’s about 112.5 hours) I’ve gotten 10,185 pieces of spam. That’s about 90.5 pieces of spam […]
For a long time I’ve gotten mounds and mounds of spam. I’ve decided to start counting the number of it I get. I get rather a lot, and each morning when I get in to work, I empty the dead mail folder from my spam killer software. I delete thousands of them a week, so […]
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