Entries from November 2004The Posts You Asked For

Lycos’s screensaver attacks spammers (gently).

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Some more detail about my MBNA experience.

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I’ve added the ability for people (that is, you) to comment on my USA Today columns — at least the ones where I’ve posted follow-ups.
It works like this. Sometimes after a column is posted I’ll want to add something — maybe more information or a clarification. So that’s why I have the follow-ups section (see [...]

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What on earth makes people think the “face” in the sandwich is Mary’s?

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Maybe they have a different sort of communication in mind.

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When Verizon calls, it comes up as “Pay Phone” on Caller ID.

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The complete text of the intro to The Shadow

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The problem with a big national debt.

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An exceedingly long piece on copyright issues!

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It’s amazing how different two supervisors can be.

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Real life doesn’t have an Instant Replay button.

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Here’s hoping for accuracy.

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Today, at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s annual
briefing, I listened to Curt Gottfried, chair of the Union of Concerned
Scientists, talk about how the government is interfering more than ever
with the free flow of science information.
This is creepy stuff — not only because it means that the government is
stifling information (meaning reports that [...]

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Funny sign I saw today walking through the under-construction section of
the airport here in Arkansas: “Welding in Progress. DO NOT WATCH!”

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I’m still trying to iron out the wrinkles of posting via e-mail. The
problem is that I’m not using any kind of integrated system. I’ve got
Movable Type running the blog, the third-party MEOW application to handle
processing the e-mail, and the Unix system on my (wonderful) hosting
company which has to run a “cron job.” (That basically running [...]

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Heard an interesting thing on the news today. It spoke of the
before-the-election controversy about “black box voting” — electronic
voting machines that were proven to be easy to tamper with.
Anyway, the comment was along the lines of “despite concerns about the
security of these machines, use of them went off with only scattered
problems.”
See, the problem was never [...]

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As someone who researches till he’s blue in the face — or at least blue
in the fingers — before buying anything, I’m curious about Exava. It’s
supposed to be “the next generation search engine for shopping,”
although the site is fairly empty. Anyone know much about it? I could
make a list pretty quickly of what I’d like [...]

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This is yet another test, and possibly the last, of posting via e-mail.
I use Movable Type, probably the most popular piece of blogging software
in use (not counting sites that host blogs, such as BlogSpot). One of
MT’s big drawbacks is that it doesn’t come with a way to post to your
blogs by mail.
I’ve tried several third-party [...]

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