Year: 2006
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Useful tip for fighting image spam in Mail.app
The often-useful Hawk Wings delivers a useful tip: A Mail.app rule fix for image spam. Just applied at home (email address constant for nearly 10 years = on every list imaginable), and we’ll see.
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Catching up with an old meme: the Wikipedia contrail
I’d read The New Yorker article on Wikipedia (thanks, Laura), and last night I read The Atlantic article on same. Looking at my cluttered home inbox, I found my wikipedia contrail, a meme I’m a few weeks late on. I typed “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/” into my browser and looked to see what came up as autocomplete options–this…
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Clearwire…horseless carriage, anyone?
Ever since I read about Clearwire a month ago, when the company raised $900 million (!), I’ve been laughing silently at the name of the company. (Yes, I have a strange sense of humor.) The company bills itself as a “Wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider” which makes one wonder about the, ahem, wire in their…
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Book: Skinny Dip
I simply must read more Carl Hiaasen. Just plain damn fun. Skinny Dip (2004) has his usual mix of violence, corruption, sex, and just oddness — all set in South Florida, where something drives people crazy (the heat?). The plight of the Everglades plays a starring role, without ever slowing the story down. Hiaasen almost…
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Book: Blow Fly
I’ve read a few of Patricia Cornwell’s novels about Dr. Kay Scarpetta, most recently The Last Precinct. From an airport book exchange, I picked up Blow Fly (2003), as a big paperback to fill some time on the plane a couple of weeks ago. Blow Fly did the job quite well, and I left the…
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Book: The Fatal Impact, An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
For a book published in 1966, and with a low profile, there are no neutral places to link. So, I’ll skip that step as I try and catch up with the reading I was able to do over the past fortnight. Alan Moorehead’s The Fatal Impact, An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific…
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Buying a new digital camera via CNET
It’s 8:35pm PT as I start this post, where I will chronicle the process of buying a new digital camera via CNET.com. That’s not an uncommon task on the Internet, nor an uncommon starting location. Still, I’m going to willfully avoid other options as long as possible and see if I can come away with…
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Fun on the beach
Many thanks to Phil, Mark, and the team at Creative Good for an outstanding weekend in San Diego. Great mix of people, mostly new to me, and the Team Wahine surfing clinic was a great way to start a very hot Sunday.
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Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums
Although our red envelopes do tend to gather a bit of dust, we watched The Royal Tenenbaums on Friday. Ummm… funny and strange. Lots of talent, in a skewed comedy. But easier to watch than Mystic River, which is “dusty” right now — doesn’t look like an “escape” movie, so it waits.
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Why I left CNET
I left CNET Networks on May 10th, about nine weeks ago. I’ve hinted at my departure a few times here, but I haven’t said much. When I noted the launch of OpenDNS, it reminded me of my silence on the topic of CNET. I am proud of my five and a half years at CNET.…