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Sometimes I utterly and completely fail to understand how anyone opens spam, let alone responds to them. They ask you questions like "do you suffer from a small penis?" or "are you having trouble pleasing your wife?" "Overweight? We can help!" "Need a date?" "In Financial Trouble?" "Want bigger breasts?" WHO opens this crap? Seriously? […]

So that "other" music service is out now, and it does nice things like restrict usage of your songs to one machine, charge you $9.49 for 2-song albums, and so on. The simple fact that the licensing is different for nearly every song should be enough to confuse the hell out of anyone. The nifty […]

I hate spam. Sometimes, however, it makes me chuckle: From: Keira Knightly <cids@naughtyselling.com> To: me@myaddress.com Subject: ADV: Pirates of the Caribbean Stars Naked! - Must be 18 Years or Older Uhhh, right. Oh well. If the real Keira ever wants to email me, she should feel free. 😉

Grrrr (the pair in the middle): Checking for rejected mail hosts: 4 reggiesrapidresponse.biz 4 reggiesrapidcity.us 4 excite.com 3 cpe-066-061-072-012.midsouth.rr.com : : 1 sales@freshlysqueezedjuice.com 1 sales@freshlysqueezedcum.com : : 1 21cn.com Grrrr.

I wrote yesterday that I don't suffer from Infornography. However, I do suffer from NADD: You enjoy the content fire hose. Give me tabbed browsing, tabbed instant messaging, music all the time, and TIVO TIVO TIVO. Welcome to NADD. NADD, or Nerd Attention Deficit Disorder, only affects me when I'm at my computer. I seem […]

If you browse on over to WeCanStopSpam.org you'll be told to include one of two URLs in your email because: Over time, if the idea catches on, spam filters will be trained to recognize emails containing the http://thisurlenablesemailtogetthroughoverzealousspamfilters.org or http://wecanstopspam.org link as legitimate. So, you will be able to increase your chances of getting an […]

Two or three years after the release of Mac OS X, Style Master 3.0 - a CSS editing app - is out. In that time, I've simply taught myself enough CSS that I don't need to use an editor, and that - in fact - I'm slower with an editor. Primarily, I had given CSSEdit […]

From a gentleman named Thanh Ly, who's sticking up for his use of Qt on a mailing list: I hear a lot of people saying that Cocoa is much better, etc. It's all subjective. Well, no one can deny that it's better in the sense that it's native to OS X. Same goes for UI […]

You know, I might be more inclined to open spam with the subject "Nice meeting you" or "Software Idea" or "Hey, It's Mike" if I didn't tend to receive about fourteen copies at a time, all with different sender names. Spammers are stupid, but the people that continue to open spam, thus making it a […]

It seems Microsoft is going to pay a dividend, something they rarely do. At about a buck a share, Bill Gates is set to net about $1,180,000,000. Said one Slashdot reader: Dear Mr. Gates, please choose one of the following: [ ] damned if you do [ ] damned if you don't [ ] just […]

Judi really likes Zinio, but after trying out the demo, I quickly deleted it from my hard disk. Why? You have to lug your PowerBook/iBook just to read a magazine instead of, well, just a magazine. You can't pass along a Zinio magazine to a friend like you can a real magazine. Screen glare? Don't […]

Today I took a test that included a question similar to the one at right. I initially chose A and C, but then considered B. I think the question actually said "choose all correct answers." Of course, then the thought struck me that, since these were checkboxes and not radio buttons, I should technically check […]

As I do some reading today, two things strike me as amazing: How much I knew about Mac OS 7/8/9 at one point in time. How much of that knowledge has been shoved out the window by Mac OS X knowledge. I haven't had "Classic" installed on my computers since shortly after Mac OS X […]

I read an older Bruce Tognazzini article in which he says this: Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding. He later postulates that mousing is faster because the user, when going to enter a keyboard shortcut, has to pause and switch contexts or […]

How cute! 8 year-old Maulin Raval is a certified Microsoft professional. Yes, he's passed his MCP in Networking. Maulin, who wants to be a computer engineer, has his replies down pat. "‘By the time I am 30, I will be competing with Bill Gates and developing better software packages,’’ he says. Ahhh, the disillusionment of […]