Technical BBQ sauce information
I get a lot of spam, but this one is new to me: From: Tech Support [mailto:Admin4@mllka.com] Sent: June 8, 2007 8:34 PMSubject: Here is the information you were asking for. Recipe for great BBQ Sauce: INGREDIENTS1 quart apple cider vinegar1 (20 ounce) bottle ketchup1/4 cup paprika1 pound dark brown sugar1/4 cup salt1 tablespoon black [...]
The digital divide
Heard yesterday from an employee of my customer, a logistics company: “Did you know that Wikipedia is editable??!!” We need to work on that digital divide problem…
GeoGratis
This is cool: GeoGratis, geospatial data provided for free online by Natural Resources Canada. My first job after university was writing software to analyze satellite images, and I still have a soft spot for them.
Enterprise 2.0 Camp coverage
I’m blogging live from Enterprise 2.0 Camp today over on my BPM blog under the Enterprise2.0TTW category.
Today’s mystery
Why do people think that a loudly-vibrating phone (usually a Blackberry in a hard holster, to get the maximum vibrating resonance) is less annoying than a beep to announce an email? Okay, it’s less annoying than hearing a tinny rendition of Mariachi music, but it’s still annoying. Turn it off, already — just put it on [...]
Where have all the t-shirts gone?
Back in the good old days, you couldn’t turn around at a tech conference without being handed a t-shirt with a logo on it. In the past few years, however, t-shirts have gone out of style as conference schwag, to be replaced with USB flash drives, coffee mugs, and this year’s favourite, notebooks of various [...]
Free calling day on Skype
On May 13th (Mother’s Day), you can call any phone in the world free from your computer using Skype. If you don’t have SkypeOut service now and are eager to try it out, Sunday’s your chance to do it for free.
The big refund
It’s tax time, so I’m naturally thinking of what to do with my tax refund. However, I received notice of another refund today in an email from GoDaddy, my primary domain registrar: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN®) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does [...]
Yahoo Desktop Search becomes less useful
I’ve been using Yahoo Desktop Search for a couple of years (a relabeled version of a product from X1) and have found it indispensable: I turned off Windows’ unusable and slow disk indexing processes and use YDS many times each day to find email and files on my system. There were a few glitches, such [...]
Google spamming me in real life
When I receive postal mail at the PO box address for my wine club, I know that something is weird — the PO box is only emptied every few days by another one of the (volunteer) board members, and I only see him every couple of weeks, so anything that I want to receive in [...]
