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: Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 in Boston, upgrades customers for… »
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: Operation Smile: Unrepentant, Egregious Spammers »
Users of my comics aggregator might have noticed that it has been slow for the past few days and has had problems retrieving comics that are hosted at comics.com. It appears that comics.com rolled out a new version of their Web site over the weekend. After the rollout, it had problems, to say the least. … Read More: comics.com jumps the shark »
A phishing message in my spam folder caught my eye today, so I decided to take a closer look at it. It claimed to be from CapitalOne. It had a legitimate sender address, a legitimate Subject line (“Please Call Us Regarding Recent Restrictions”), and convincing-looking content that was mostly lifted straight from a real CapitalOne… Read More: Fascinating phishing attack — the links are fine, but watch… »
Some time ago, author Galen Gruman, an Executive Editor at InfoWorld, started a petition demanding that Microsoft continue to sell Windows XP past the time when they had originally intended to stop, on the grounds that many individuals and businesses saw no need to switch to Windows Vista and shouldn’t be forced to do so.… Read More: Galen Gruman collects email addresses for InfoWorld and IDG to… »
Turns out my LJ.com syndication feed (http://syndicated.livejournal.com/jik_blog/) has been broken since I installed bookmarkify in March. LJ decided that my entries were too big with all the bookmarkify links in them. So I’ve told bookmarkify to only include the Digg link and none of the others. It would have been nice if somebody at LJ… Read More: Hey, LJ users! A little help? »
I’ve just asked to be unsubscribed from the “jewish-boston” mailing list. I just can’t take it anymore.
I’ve been invited to be a contributor to Jewneric. I’ll be “simulblogging” my Judaism-related articles on my blog here as well as on Jewneric. If one of the articles here piques your interest, you may wish to follow the comments about it on Jewneric as well as here. I’ll post cross-links at the ends of… Read More: I’m being “syndicated” on Jewneric »
Every once in a while, I head on over to eBay to dispose of something I no longer need that somebody else might want. This isn’t a business or even a hobby for me; it’s just a useful tool for getting rid of things that I’d rather not just throw away. When I’ve done this… Read More: Stupid eBay policy about sellers accepting Paypal payments »