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Archive of entries posted on 13th December 2007

Chain E-Mails

Posted by Head Geek on 13 December 2007, 5:55 pm

In 1997 I set up an e-mail account to support several software products I’d written for my (now-former) company. Because customers and potential customers needed to be able to find it easily, I put it on the company web page too. Predictably, it became an instant spam magnet. I couldn’t trust automated spam filters (when …

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Filed under Spam and Malware | 6 Comments

“Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams”

Posted by Head Geek on 13 December 2007, 12:17 am

“42nd Avenue, of course.”

Filed under Amusing/Interesting/Appalling | 2 Comments

purrcast.com?

Posted by Head Geek on 13 December 2007, 12:16 am

As the saying goes, you can find absolutely anything on the ‘net. I’d say that this site, featuring nothing but the sounds of cats purring and pictures and biographies of the “actors” (purr-tors?), pretty much proves it.

Filed under Amusing/Interesting/Appalling | 4 Comments

“Terry Pratchett has rare, early-onset Alzheimer’s”

Posted by Head Geek on 13 December 2007, 12:04 am

The full text of the news can be found here.

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