GoComics.com changed their Web page format again
GoComics.com changed their Web page format and broke my screen scraper again last night. I’ve updated my comics aggregator to support the new page format as of this morning.
Category Archives: Internet
Who’s using my email address, and why?
Somebody seems to be using my email address in a weird, ongoing way that doesn’t seem to be benefiting them in any way. The fact that I can’t figure out why they’re doing it concerns me, because I have to suspect that there is some benefit to them, which I just haven’t been able to… Read More »
comics.com has merged into gocomics.com
For those who use my comics aggregator, note that as of yesterday, the comics.com web site has merged into gocomics.com. I’ve just updated the aggregator to reflect this. The comic strip “That’s Life” appears to have been lost in the shuffle; I’ll check again at some point in the future to see if it resurfaces… Read More »
Google AdWords is still staffed by poorly trained monkeys
Last month, I wrote about Google’s surreal attempts to collect from me a debt I don’t actually owe, and my unsuccessful attempts to make it stop. Things have gotten much worse since then. I sent a letter (appended below) to the office of Google’s CEO over a month ago. There has been no response. Today,… Read More »
A study in contrasts: handling stolen email lists
I try to make a habit of giving out “tagged” email addresses to web sites when I sign up for accounts / mailing lists / whatever. For example, when creating an account at widgets.com, instead of just signing up as “jik@kamens.us”, I might sign up as “jik+widgets@kamens.us”. It ends up in the same mailbox regardless,… Read More »
Google AdWords is staffed by poorly trained monkeys
Back when I was doing my week-long Shave a Redhead for Israel fundraiser, Google’s search index was taking an unusually long time to index the fundraiser page. This was a problem because I was publicizing the fundraiser and telling people they could find it easily by searching for “Shave a Redhead for Israel”, but they… Read More »
Astroturf for (or against?) Obama
An interesting comment showed up a few hours ago on an earlier blog posting of mine about Barack Obama: “Just wanted to say that I am eployed at a large Pharmaceutical company in Clayton NC and I support Barack Obama with all my heart. I would love for all my friends and colleagues to re-elect… Read More »
HOWTO: run jabberd and MU-Conference on Fedora
Please see this how-to I just posted on running jabberd and MU-Conference (XMPP chat room server) on Fedora Linux.
Mac OS Mail.app suddenly stops being able to send mail, with fix
I recently encountered a bizarre problem with Mail.app, the email client included in Mac OS X, that took me quite a while to solve (with no help from AppleCare; more on that in a separate blog posting). I’m posting about the problem and its solution here so that, with any luck, the next person who… Read More »
9 chickweed Lane, Brewster Rockit, Frazz added to comics aggregator
For those of you who use my comics aggregator, please note that in response to user requests, I’ve added 9 Chickweed Lane, Brewster Rockit, and Frazz to it. As always, please email me if there are any comics you’d like me to add.