Category: internet

Robert Hensing’s Incident Response WebLog

Here’s an interesting security-related blog from a Microsoft guy. I’m starting to see a lot more in-depth security stuff in blogs. The ISC handler’s diary is always interesting, for instance.

The new MSN search

Walt Mossberg thinks the new MSN search isn’t quite as good as Google, and I tend to agree.

Searching for Andrew Huey on Google, for instance, finds my home page, and my Amazon page, no problem, along with a bunch of pages related to other Andrew Hueys.

Seaching my name on MSN though, comes up with a pretty weird result list. The very first link has neither Andrew nor Huey in it anywhere, as far as I can tell. It’s a pretty interesting quote, though.

No More Palm.Net

Palm.Net to cease 31 August: I discontinued my Palm.Net account some time ago, but I still have my Palm i705. I guess the antenna is officially useless now. Oh well. The web service on my cell phone is pretty bad. Time to switch to a Treo 600 maybe?

new Gmail account

I just got myself a Gmail account! I spent the last hour or so changing my e-mail address at various web sites so that all the newsletters that used to go to my yahoo account will now go to Gmail. I really like the interface, and the absence of obnoxious, blinking Flash ads. The gigabyte of space is nice too. It’ll be interesting to see how the spam filtering works out. I’m getting about 50 spams a day to my Yahoo account. It files most of the them correctly, but I have to fish 2 or 3 good e-mails a week out of the spam folder, and I usually get 3 or 4 spam e-mails a day that wind up in my inbox instead of the spam folder.