One of my friends (hey Brad!) asked me a while ago if I had seen the Battlestar Galactica. We don’t have cable TV, so no I haven’t. But I just watched the first two seasons in 43 minutes. I downloaded Battlestar Galactica: The Story So Far into iTunes. It’s a 465MB file, but it looks […]
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Contest Entry
Futurosity is doing something I have often thought of doing, giving away a cool prize in exchange for a link. What should I give away? hmmm….
Plaxo spam greeting cards
Plaxo.com, the contact management people, have an option in their privacy policy that you can opt-out of having their members send you invites or reminders. I did that back in September 2004, and haven’t received any other Plaxo garbage since then. Now Plaxo has an e-greeting card system. Which apparently Plaxo.com feels does not have […]
Telemarketing Call from Morton Penni Mortgages
I just received a blatant pre-recorded telemarketing call to my home phone number from a mortgage company in Pennsylvania. Caller ID told me it was from the phone number 215-364-9789, identified as Morton Penni. A Google search shows their information as Morton Penni Mortgages; address as 2 Bustleton Pike; Feasterville Trevose, PA 19053-6343; and their […]
Spamhaus Lawsuit spam
I received some spam on Wednesday afternoon from someone really ticked at Spamhaus. It came to my abuse email address. It came from a throwaway Yahoo email address. Comments are supposed to go to yet another yahoo email address. I reported the addresses to Yahoo. The last line of the message was “Committee to stop […]
Re: Verizon needs to stop jerking me around
In Verizon needs to stop jerking me around Derek pegs why junk mail sucks. And a bonus, he pegs why Verizon sucks. Just yesterday my office’s T1 line went down. I call the helpful UUNet number to discover Verizon owns UUNET, or MCI, or whoever the heck it is. I have more important things to […]
YouTube user spam
I recently posted my first videos to YouTube. Less than a week later I’ve received my first spam mail from another YouTube user to my YouTube account. I can block that one user, but there is no way that I see to let YouTube staff know that one of their users is spamming. Argh! Is […]
Pump-n-Dump spammer faces SEC fraud charges
The Spam Diaries is pointing out that someone is finally being charged in penny stock fraud. Amazing, they made over $1,000,000 at penny stock fraud. And yes, the stock was selling at around a penny, so people were buying millions of shares of this company. Listen people, never buy anything that you is advertised in […]
Re: Test your ability to avoid spam
Over at Spamroll Test your ability to avoid spam, Michael Gracie asks how people did when they take the SiteAdvisor Spam Quiz. Basically, look at different sites, read their privacy policies, and decide which of the two sites is trustworthy. I got 100%, 8 out of 8 correct. Then again, I’m the webmaster for the […]
Re: Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up
In Mac Server Series: Initial Set Up Brian shares the first steps in a video on setting up a Mac as a server. He works for a web host that lets you send them a Mac Mini, and then you can run your web sites and email off of it. I priced it out, and […]