ZIP code fields that don’t accept the ZIP+4, or only accept it without the hyphen, or only accept it with the hyphen, or let you enter it and then tell you it’s invalid Credit-card number fields that don’t accept spaces or hyphens, or require spaces or hyphens, or tell you to enter the card number… Read More »
In a recent email message to me entitled “Fighting the Good Fight,” friend, author and politician Michael Burstein referred me to Kate Hutchinson’s blog entry about spamming by Sam Yoon. Michael is an avid reader of my blog and therefore knows that I’ve been in more than a few scraps of my own like Kate’s. … Read More »
In a recent issue of SANS NewsBites, the following item appeared as the headline story: TOP OF THE NEWS –One In Five Teenagers Claim to Have Used Hacking Tools (15th May 2009) A recent survey of 4,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years of age states that 17% of those surveyed know… Read More »
As long-time readers of my blog know, I have been trying for a long time to help the environment and waste less of my own time by getting people to stop sending me junk mail. My primary method for doing that is to use email to contact the person or organization sending the junk mail… Read More »
Less than a day after I posted my letter to my blog, and before the printed letter even reached Comcast, I received an emailed response:
April 13, 2009 Mitch Bowling General Manager and Senior Vice President, Online Services Comcast One Comcast Center 1701 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103-2838 Dear Mr. Bowling, Today, my wife received at her Comcast email address, elided@comcast.net, your email message with the Subject line “Apology for Service Disruption”. My wife’s email address is a secondary address… Read More »
UPDATE (June 30, 2013): I no longer believe this review from 2009 to be an accurate representation of the quality of service provided by PayFlex. Please see my more recent posting for an explanation. Feel free to post comments there; comments on the review here have been disabled.
We just received an email message from Comcast which read in part as follows: Comcast Doubled Your Speed for Free! Great news! As a Performance customer, we just doubled your speed for free! And with PowerBoost®, you now have downloads up to 15 Mbps! The fastest fast from the new Comcast High-Speed Internet is now… Read More »
For users of my comics aggregator… When comics.com switched to their redesigned Web site, they started exporting much larger versions of their single-panel comics. This is annoying, so I’ve fixed the aggregator to notice comics from comics.com taller than 400 pixels and restrict their display height to 400 pixels.
Operation Smile started spamming me in 2004 after I donated to them on-line and gave them my email address so they could send me a receipt. They have sent me spam on November 5, 2004; December 22, 2004; January 11, 2005; December 7, 2005; December 20, 2005; March 8, 2006; May 11, 2006; May 28,… Read More »