We have a new employee starting tomorrow. We listed her in our website’s staff directory on Friday. I went to setup a PC to log in to her email this afternoon, and there was already spam in the account! The spam directed at her got here before she did. If that doesn’t smack of an almost useless technology, I don’t know what does.
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So you know how I setup a quick link blog using my bloglines subscriptions, right? There is one definite drawback, just using the one-click “Link blog this” on items in Bloglines creates a link not to the original item, but to the item in the feed that bloglines has pulled and left on their site….
OK so this is completely off topic but it had me cracking up last night. Simply put, John Kruk is the best thing that’s happened to ESPN’s Baseball Tonight, ever! Last night in the middle of a discussion about hamstring injuries and strength conditioning he says: “Babe Ruth never went on the DL with a…
This caught my interest – Let’s penalize cold emails. If a recipient chooses, “I never signed up for this mailing list,” I think MailChimp and other email providers should penalize the sender, too. Maybe not with the voracity they penalize under the “this is spam” response, but if you are cold emailing (sending emails to…
Maddy left a comment asking about what I found most useful in preparing for the A+ exams. Here go a few thoughts: First, as I’ve told you before, I read two books. I would recommend reading at least one book covering the current versions of the exams, even if you’ve been working with PC’s for…
If you’re not looking at the link blog, I’d just thought I’d spend a minute and show you what you may have missed. Over the weekend, when I typically do not post here, and this morning I pointed a few interesting things that I wanted to spend more time looking at later. I thought regular…
Lots of folks are pitching a fit with MS over this bad boy, and certainly MS deserves some blame for the faults in their software. On the other hand, Outlook is getting better at recognizing dangerous attachments (at least the beta of 2003 seems to me to be better at it), it’s starting to not…
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