i have been using amaury balmer’s simple tags plugin to extend wordpress‘ tagging feature since wp 2.3.x and it has been great so far. i recently had a glitch which prevented me from installing the latest releases of simple tags. to be fair, its not the plugin’s fault. the problem stems from my hosting server, [...]
i noticed this today. i started receiving bounced mails from yahoo! groups. it appears that spammers are now trying to spam the yahoo! mailing lists. cute. they would invent an e-mail address and add that to my domain name and then use the result e-mail address to try and join a group, send mail to [...]
a couple of years ago one of my hard disks crashed. it wasn’t a major crash but i lost a good number of files nonetheless. i do have backups but since then i have tried to offload most of my files from my desktop and/or laptop to the internet.
at the time, one of my fast [...]
biases notwithstanding, my gut tells me a merger between the two is a bad idea. for both companies.
my take:
44 billion is a huge amount. microsoft may be desperate. competition or not, if this bid will go through it will stress microsoft out. maybe a year before real results become visible. changing logos on websites doesn’t [...]
yup. its old news but yes, 360 is closing. the good news is that they’re actively developing mash. its a social networking thing like myspace and facebook. they’re a little late in the game but mash looks interesting and it may be worth a look see. it has lots of ajax bling some of which [...]
the other day i received an e-mail which looked a lot like spam but it didn’t get filtered. i took a closer look and i found out that the address of the sender was my e-mail address and it was sent to the same. i’m absolutely sure i didn’t send anything with a subject “january [...]
there is e-mail spam and, if you have a blog, there’s comment spam.
its always going to be there. its a fact of internet life. you live with it.
if you can’t then i can think of a thumbful of ways to avoid it:
do not get an e-mail address. if you do get one, do not use [...]
