Five thousand five hundred and nineteen: that’s the number of bounce replies, out-off-office notifications, and spam-catcher challenges I’ve received in the past 20 hours. It looks like my old friend is up to his tricks again.
Category Archives: Technology
Administrative note
To anyone who is coming here because they received a SPAM email from an address at chaptastic.net I’m sorry you received that. Some jackass has decided to send a large number of messages from fake addresses at my domain using an open relay at prod-infinitum.com.mx. It is my firm belief that spammers deserve to be […]
Tab switch keys in Firefox
I’ve been toying with the idea of using FireFox as my main browser. Despite all of the great features offered by Mac native web browsers, they all seem to possess one great flaw: they’re dogs in the performance department. My current favorite, OmniWeb, regularly consumes 600+ megabytes of resident memory and 2+ gigabytes of virtual […]
GooTube, an update
This is sort of a semi-update to my Google/YouTube post from yesterday: The Onion AV Club points out a video posted by the founders of YouTube after the news of the acquisition. What a pair of douchebags. You’d think if they were worth 1.65 billion freakin’ dollars they could at least produce a coherent […]
Facial Compositing
A number of articles about research into building compostie faces have circulated around the internet recently. They generally end up with over-idealized robotic looking faces (example). This article linked on Fark is a little different — the facial composite bears a striking resemblance to Jenna Fischer from The Office.
A Numbers Game
Today Google announced that it intends to purchase YouTUBE. The price: 1.65 billion dollars. Rumors on Friday had pegged the sale price at $1.6 billion. When I first saw the stories today, I had a little chuckle at the added digit of precision. That added decimal place, that mere 0.05 more, just a hair over […]