Read "Break the Chain: Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation" before you forward on that email that demands that you it "forward it on to everyone you know". Note: Pop-Up ad.
My rule is - if an email says forward this on, I don't.
Saturday, June 29, 2002
Thursday, June 27, 2002
Minor Tweaks to Speed Up Website/Some Links
Made some minor tweaks to speed of the loading of this page...
Also, the three links below will probably be put in my sidebar at some point...
Also, the three links below will probably be put in my sidebar at some point...
Sunday, June 23, 2002
Thursday, June 13, 2002
Left My Consulting Gig for a Job in the City
I am now working as a project manager for a software company in San Francisco. Woo-Hoo!
Saturday, June 01, 2002
Word of the Day Feature Working Again
The word of the day feature in the upper right is now working again. I switched to Wordsmith.Org's "A.Word.A.Day" since Dictionary.com is still not working.
Friday, May 31, 2002
Temporarily Disabled Word of the Day Feature
The dictionary.com site is down - so it was preventing the rest of my web page from loading. I think I have a work around - but until I can get time to implement it, I will disable the feature.
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Test Your Email Forms Before You Spam
"I noticed that you are located in [City], [State] which is an area where we
would like to have a greater presence" - this is an actual quote from a spam I received offering me a career as a professional recruiter, in return for a "small investment". If you are going to use form fields in your spam, at least make sure they work, or are omitted if the fields are blank.
would like to have a greater presence" - this is an actual quote from a spam I received offering me a career as a professional recruiter, in return for a "small investment". If you are going to use form fields in your spam, at least make sure they work, or are omitted if the fields are blank.
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
K l e z Computer Worm - It is not me!
Today I finally received my fist K l e z infected email. (I actually received three altogether.) Although this particular computer worm was discovered on April 17th, I didn't receive an infected email until today. Because I am using Norton Anti-Virus, I was not infected, and no harm was done.
However, the most disturbing thing was that I received an email notification that I had sent an infected email to someone else. This is the nasty new twist with this worm - it grabs email addresses at random, and them uses those addresses as fake sender email addresses. So, even though I actually never sent anyone an infected email (Norton Anti-Virus scans all of my outgoing email as an extra security precaution), it appears that an infected email came from me, simply because my email address was in someone else's address book.
The important thing to remember about the K l e z worm, is that the sender's address of an infected email you received is not the actual source of the infection. It is simply an email address randomly gathered from the address book of an infected computer by the worm.
However, the most disturbing thing was that I received an email notification that I had sent an infected email to someone else. This is the nasty new twist with this worm - it grabs email addresses at random, and them uses those addresses as fake sender email addresses. So, even though I actually never sent anyone an infected email (Norton Anti-Virus scans all of my outgoing email as an extra security precaution), it appears that an infected email came from me, simply because my email address was in someone else's address book.
The important thing to remember about the K l e z worm, is that the sender's address of an infected email you received is not the actual source of the infection. It is simply an email address randomly gathered from the address book of an infected computer by the worm.
Yahoo! - First In-Office Study Dishes The Dirt On Desks
The average desk harbors 400 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat, according this study by University of Arizona microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba.
Saturday, May 25, 2002
Wednesday, May 22, 2002
Bay to Breakers
Walked the Bay to Breakers race on Saturday. We were completely soaked with the rain by the end. Hopefully I will have some pictures from the race to post.
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