Entries from January 2004
Pseudo-consensual link-farming
This, I think, is a new one.
I have received a piece of spam (sent via an insecure host in Ukraine) that appears to be an innocuous request by one blogger to exchange links with other blogs. The problem is that the sender is nobody I’ve ever heard of, and the blogs aren’t particularly on the [...]
Nastygram to T-Mobile
Quit nickel-and-diming me
Beat the spread
I had dinner last night with some friends, Drew and Farooq, and rather than watch George II deliver a pack of lies, platitudes, and empty promises, I insisted that we talk.
Inevitably, talk turned to politics. Now, neither of these guys has any love for our current Dear Leader, but I was surprised at their antipathy [...]
Restructuring
Tending my garden of words
MT Users: Install v2.66 now
quick update helps fight comment spam
Disabling comments on old blog posts: questionable wisdom
Don’t close the door on latecomers
Incense beer
Drinking an Anchor Christmas Ale with my tom yum soup tonight, I made a bizarre discovery: it smells exactly like Nag Champa incense.
Can anyone explain this to me?
Squeezing the golden eggs out of the goose
South Congress is being killed by its own success
iPodlet redux
I wrote before that we’d see interesting things come of these matchbox-sized hard drives, now that they’ve got pretty serious storage capacity. And now we have. Apple doesn’t call it the iPodlet, though.
At the risk of sounding churlish, I’m a bit disappointed in how big it is. It’s the size of a business card. OK, [...]
