Just when I spent last night thinking that my site traffic had slowed down somewhat since the outage this weekend, Chris mentions me in Today’s Lockergnome along with seven other blogs that he visits but which aren’t well known. (And are very good by the way!) Thanks Chris, and thanks for stopping by all you…
Can AOL Make Money from IM?. In light of the ever-continuing fight between Trillian and AOL, let’s look at some lines from the story: “The three — America Online’s AIM, Microsoft’s MSN Messenger and Yahoo!’s Messenger — have all started adding display ads to users’ buddy lists” -but only one is actively blocking other IM…
So what did I miss over the weekend? Angela enjoyed her birthday weekend. Thanks to the handful of folks who got through the site troubles here to wish her a happy birthday. I appreciate it! She had her own thanks to them on her site, but I wanted to thank Steven, Josh, Frank, Gene and…
SafeWeb users are vulnerable. Oh the irony. Should we start calling them (not so)SafeWeb? *L* The Register is baffled by ICQ “hack”. Was it hacked or wasn’t it? You be the judge… Trillian version .725 is out, the latest in the AIM connection wars. Why aren’t the Olympics over yet? Haven’t we had enough drama,…
Thanks to Cam World for pointing out this $399 computer from Walmart. When did Wally’s World start selling PC’s with no OS? That’s not a bad deal at all, seems like a pretty powerful machine, but no network card sort of sucks. That can be dealt with. I’ve never used a Microtel machine, anyone have…
It’s easy, just take any three day weeekend, like this one, and leave an “out of office” auto-reply on your account, and please, oh please, misconfigure it so that it replies to every message on a mailing list. (Including it’s own messages of course, so that you just run a continous loop!) Nice job! I…