I have IM accounts on all of the major IM platforms (ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, AIM), and use Trillian so as to be able to access them all. I have long wondered why the likes of AOL and Microsoft allow Trillian to be used as an MSN front-end, or rather, why they have not prevented the use of 3rd party front...
I received hundreds of e-mail messages this morning, some from folks wanting to know why I was sending them infected messages, and the others bounce notifications sent because mail servers had rejected mail I had sent because of bad attachments. The problem? I did not send the mail, nor did my...
CNET is running a story (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5065739.html?tag=lh) stating that the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today criticized the current crop of anti-spam legislation initiatives stating that although well intentioned, they "will do little to solve the current spam...
Are you planning on attending MAX (the conference formerly known as DevCon)? If so, and if you are interested in Web Services, you may want to attend my hands-on "Using Web Services with ColdFusion" session. Hands-on sessions tend to sell out first, so if you are interested in this one you may want...
I've added a spell checker to the comments posting page on this blog. Not that any of you needed a spell checker, but ... :-) All comments and feedback welcome.
After a day and a half without any power, no telephones (we lost cell phones on all networks as well as land lines), and almost no running water I'm back online. It looks like my site was up all the time (the data center has a backup generator), but it could not be accessed at times because most...
Little baby boy Forta arrived this morning at 9:28 am. The (yet to be named) baby clocked in at 8 pounds 13 ounces and 22" long. Mother and baby are doing fine! :-)
I'm a gadget freak (as most of us are), and am particularly fond of anything pertaining to time, calendars, globes, planets, geophysics, construction gizmos, puzzles, and just about anything with cool LEDs (yeah, very specific, I know). My newest toy is an LED binary clock - a clock with six...
Rough weekend. My high-speed data connection died on Friday, and I was stuck with a dial-up connection for almost 48 hours. Honestly, I spent most of the weekend feeling like my hands were tied behind my back using a slow dial up. While part of me was frustrated and feeling trapped, another part of...
This would be utterly hilarious if it were not so sad. Wired is running a story (http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59907,00.html) about one of the many sites that uses spam to hawk products intended to enlarge male body parts. I personally get dozens of messages like this a day and I am...