Andrew Huey | pointlessly blogging since 2001
Annoying new scam:
How Low Can You Go? New Community Web Site Is Doing You No Favors
I just got one of these e-mails, and MAN was I creeped out. If you get any e-mail from the “Word-of-Mouth.Org Report Awareness System”, I’d recommend just ignoring it. Creepy.
Spam is getting to be a big problem at work, so I’ve been spending some spare time looking into various spam-filtering solutions. The stuff I’m looking at for work is, of course, server-oriented software. For home use, though, I’ve been looking at a few things that get between your e-mail client and POP server. I just downloaded K9 and installed it for use with Eudora. I won’t know how good it works until I’ve been using it for a week or two, but hey, it’s free, so it’s gotta be worth a try.
RPI student gets screwed:
RIAA Grabs Student’s Life’s Savings
(If you went to RPI, you understand the “screw” reference…)
More rain today. Are we going to get a nice weekend anytime soon? I guess not. Well, it gave me time to back up my hard drive, watch some Futurama, Animatrix shorts, and some random anime. And read a little bit too. Can’t spend the whole day in front of the tube.
Will Caffeine Cause Health Problems? Lots of interesting discussion here, but who knows how much of it has any basis in reality. I’m doing about 3 cups of coffee a day right now, on weekdays, and maybe 1 a day on weekends.
I’ve been playing around with BitTorrent a lot over the last week or so. It’s nice. I’ve been downloading a bunch of fansubbed anime. Just what I needed: another hobby!
Things From Another World has a “nick and dent” sale going on. Lots of good stuff at 50% off. I just bought 4 Crossgen TPBs — the first two volumes each of Scion and Sojourn. They look fine; better, in general, than you’d see on the shelf at a bookstore. I’m going to try to avoid buying anthing else, though. My stack of unread books is about a foot and a half high right now.
Another rainy day in Somerville, so no street fair today. Darn. I bought the Sunday New York Times to keep myself entertained. And I took a little trip to Borders to pick up the new Led Zep CD.
A little press release related to my company’s handheld computing program turned up on the Extended Systems site a while ago.
You can listen to all of Dave Gahan’s new album at his web site, through a little Flash applet. It’s pretty good. Maybe I’ll pick it up from Apple’s music store, if it finds its way there. Or I could just capture the stream from the Flash applet with Ace-High on my PC, but that would be cheating.
Meanwhile, Is this the end of Netscape? Does it matter? How did they get through this article without once mentioning Mozilla?