The latest issue of WinXPnews points to a fairly interesting little tool that I had not seen before, the Netcraft Anti-phishing toolbar. It apparently gives you the hosting location of the site you’re on and lets you easily report phishing sites. Anyone been using this and have any feedback on how well it works? I might have to give it a run at some point and see for myself.
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So, Wednesday of this week, I noticed that the Bravenet counters were offline for an upgrade. Yesterday it seemed like they were back with the “new and improved” bravenet, but nothing really seemed to work very well, so I figured they had some bugs in the upgrade. Today everything seems to be working, but their…
As many of you know, over at the child abuse site, I use Movable Type, and I have often raved about how well MT-Blacklist works to keep out comment spam. Well, thanks to a pointer from Christine, I see this morning that there is a bug in the latest version of MT-Blacklist. The rather simple…
AKA the great cleanup of 2006. I’ve always said that I wasn’t a good test subject to measure how effective any anti-trojan or spyware application is, so while I’ve kept a professional interest in the latest and greatest tools, I hadn’t been given a really good opportunity to try them out, until last week. A…
Remember how I was telling you about our work ISP and the fact that they simply stopped sending bounces for bad email addresses? I have been working on a “tip of the week” for next week and trying to explain to our users that email is not reliable, that if they don’t get a reply…
So not only was I home sick yesterday, but our cable internet went on the fritz for a good part of the afternoon, and then, just as I was getting used to having it back, we discovered that the phone was dead. Talk about feeling out of it! It’s very possible that we will be…
All these years of blogging, all these different blogs, and who gets to post pictures hanging out with the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner? Yes, here’s Finnegan hanging out at a Dayton Dragons game with Archie Griffin. š Tags: ArchieGriffin, Finnegan, DaytonDragons Follow these topics: Uncategorized