November 20, 2003 – 10:10 am
I have gotten several spams recently, both in my personal email and at my work address, from someone trying to scam PayPal accounts. The text of the message looks like this:
Dear PayPal member,
We regret to inform you that your account is about to be expired in next five business days. To avoid suspension of your account you have to reactivate it by providing us with your personal information.
To update your personal profile and continue using PayPal services you have to run the attached application to this email. [...]
November 7, 2003 – 3:10 pm
Conventional wisdom (and Microsoft) has always said that there was no way to install multiple versions of Internet Explorer onto one PC. Not without booting multiple operating systems, or using a virtualizer product like VMWare.
They lied.
Get ‘em while they’re hot.
October 22, 2003 – 10:03 am
Zeldman has announced that the new design for A List Apart is now live. In addition to the new look, the article index, and category selections, there are three great new articles available. . [...]
October 17, 2003 – 3:29 pm
There’s been more talk about comment spammers around the net lately. And there’s especially been some traffic around Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist plugin for MovableType. We’re going to be doing some similar things for WordPress.
I’ve commented in a few discussions about an idea that I have that would be more of a deterrent (hopefully) than a blocking mechanism. It would work by encoding URLs in submitted comments, randomly replacing characters with their numeric entity equivalents. This change is invisible to browsers, but the idea is that Google would index the URL differently every time it was posted in a blog’s comments. [...]
Updated Aug 23, 2003
Okay, I’ve been playing with BlogShares for a while now, and I’ve managed to get myself up to at little over $60M (at the time of this writing). But I’m getting pretty bored with it. While I have discovered some interesting new sites via my Blogshares explorations, I haven’t seen a surge of linkbacks like I was hoping. So I’m going to resort to bribery.
Want some free stock? Link to me, and I’ll gift you some.
How to cash in
Here are the “rules” (such as they are):
- You must be a BlogShares player, and you must have a blog listed on BlogShares
- You must add a link to one of my sites (see below) to your blogroll
- Post a comment to this post to notify me of the link (don’t forget to include your URL!)
- When the Blogshares server registers the link (see below), I will gift you some shares
Where to link:
You may choose to link one or more of my sites:
- geek ramblings: Mostly about programming and web design, with other topics randomly thrown in at my whim.
- The Temple of Gunters: Mostly meme links to funny junk or articles about beer.
- The War on Spam: An anti-spam resource with links to news, tools, other anti-spam sites, etc.
Notifying Blogshares
After you add the link(s) to your blogroll, you can use my handy-dandy Service Pinger to ask the BlogShares server to re-index your site. [...]
December 4, 2002 – 7:52 am
I figured I’d better bookmark this before I forget. Chris Nott (c.f. Dithered)has a new Javascript API that ports the DOM2 events API to older versions of Internet Explorer. Mmmm…. Cross-browser goodness.
November 13, 2002 – 7:52 am
I guess the movie industry’s motto should be, “with great power comes no responsibility.” Comic book legend Stan Lee says that Marvel owes him big bucks due to a contract that grants Lee 10% of all profits from the comic book characters he created. Marvel claims that, ‘the company has seen no “profits” as defined by their contract.’
Ummm….. Yeah. Right. The Spider-Man movie grossed over $400 million domestically, over $700 million since the release of the home video, but there are no profits? Puh-leez. [...]
October 2, 2002 – 8:02 am
The recording industry has been lamenting over the past few years about how music sharing on the internet has hurt their sales, and that artists’ rights are being violated. Of course, most geeks who burn MP3s know that they’re just blowing smoke.
The RIAA is not working in the artists’ best interests. [...]
If you visited this site on the latter half of Sunday July 21, you might have been a little confused. While moving all my domains to a new host, I accidentally copied my War on Spam database over my personal blog data. I discovered the error late in the evening and restored the proper data.
I think almost everything is working properly now, so hopefully nobody noticed any major glitches other than the one mentioned above.
I’m on a mission, and I need your help.
I want to collect links to essays about Netscape 4 suckage. I already have a few (see below), but I’m sure there must be tons more out there. But! I don’t want just any old blather. I want well written articles with technical details, preferably by professional (or semi-pro) web designers.
If you know of articles like this (or have written one yourself), please add a comment here with the URL. . [...]
