A few days ago, I flew off the handle and attacked someone on the jewish-boston mailing list for a comment which was meant in jest and which I incorrectly took seriously. I was helped to see the error of my ways by some very polite people, and this morning I sent this apology to the… Read More: On public apologies »
Just sent this letter to Citizens Bank. Not holding my breath for any sort of meaningful response, but what the heck… Dana Drago Vice Chairman, Retail and Business Banking Citizens Bank One Citizens Plaza Providence, RI 02903 Dear Ms. Drago, I am writing to bring to your attention a serious deficiency in Citizens Bank’s Internet… Read More: Citizens Bank Internet banking: edited or deleted transactions can be… »
At around 3:21pm US/Eastern on November 4, 2007, a zombie botnet began a dictionary spam attack against one of the domains I host. zombie botnet — a group of PCs that have been broken into by a hacker and turned into “zombies,” i.e., PCs over which the hacker now has control, so that he can… Read More: zombie botnet spam attack from over 3,000 IP addresses in… »
Seen in a posting on-line from someone discussing the positive impact of taking regular breaks from one’s day-to-day routine: “I guess Jesus knew what he was doing calling for the observance of the Sabbath…” *sigh*
I think there must be ghosts haunting the world’s email servers this week or something, because in the few days, I’ve had three different surreal email incidents.
Take a look at http://www.trenchmice.com/. It’s a new site which I’d describe as an “enlightened” version of www.f*edcompany.com. One major difference is that people are encouraged to post about not only companies where bad things are happening, but also about companies where things are going well. Furthermore, there’s a clever community moderation system which keeps… Read More: trenchmice.com »
Check out this site. This guy’s ex-girlfriend applied for various credit card accounts over the Web in his name while living with him for several years, grabbing the statements from the mail as they came in or signing up for paperless statements so he never found out about them, until she finally skipped town right… Read More: Discover Card refuses to do the right thing »
To view someone else’s shared Snapfish album, you have to register as a snapfish user.
I just sent this complaint to Senator Edward Kennedy’s office through the form on his Web site:
Updated 8/29/2015: And… They’re spamming me again. Now, it’s through the “salesforce marketing cloud.” I’ve unsubscribed using the link in today’s spam, and I also sent a complaint to SalesForce. We’ll see if anything comes of it (I doubt it). Updated 1/31/2006: I’ve put on-line the statement of claim I was intending to use to… Read More: FootSmart: Totally Evil or Totally Incompetent? »