Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters

Michelle Delio

Those increasingly ubiquitous Nigerian e-mails 'respectfully requesting your assistance' and promising great rewards actually do work — for the Nigerians. An admitted scammer explains how it works.

I received an entertaining Congolese e-mail from Laurent Mpeti Kabila a while back...

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New activeRenderer Tutorial Series

From what I can see of published outlined works these days, a lot of activeRenderer's layout flexibility is not yet tapped into. I reckon I haven't done a good enough job at documenting aR's features. I've always found this more difficult than writing code. Anyway, I'm starting today a series of tutorials, to provide short step by step guides to outline publishing with aR and Radio.

I need this...

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It was a bad idea, crafted and carried out by zealots, and was rightly killed.

Jennifer Peter, Associated Press

Lawmakers today killed a citizen-initiated ballot question that would have banned gay marriage as hundreds of supporters and opponents crowded the State House.

The title will make more sense if you read this.

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Day 28: Labeling form elements

Mark Pilgrim

The <label> tag allows you to associate a form label with any kind of form input element: text box, multi-line text area, checkbox, radio button, whatever. This allows screen readers to intelligently announce what a particular input element is, by reading the label. Furthermore, if you use a <label> tag to associate a checkbox (<input type="checkbox">) with the text next to it, your web-based form will work like a GUI application: clicking anywhere on the text label will toggle the checkbox.

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myRadio: very early release

Mikel Maron

This Tool extends the Radio Userland aggregator from rss to any networked data (xml, html, soap, personalized services, etc), and any layout. It is exceedingly simple for developers to add functionality to the framework. The GUI (screenshot) is reminiscent of My Yahoo! and other server based personalization tools.

The intention is only proof of concept and meme generation.

Looks interesting...

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Is the move to .Mac worth the price tag?

Rob McNair-Huff

I am curious what Mac users think about Apple's move to take away iTools services and replace them with the $99 per year .Mac services? Are you rushing out to buy into the concept?

This is the response I get when trying to explore the details of the .Mac service...

Invalid response received from application.

Now, granted, it's just been announced, and the servers are probably being pounded. But this just reminds me of the limitations of iTools - it's not very good. Or rather, I should say, it wasn't very good, as The Ministry of Information (Miniform) at Apple has removed all references to iTools from their website.

Since I don't know the details, I guess I'll take a wait-and-see attitude about the whole thing. Certainly, I will take the 60-day trial, and I might even sign up if it seems somewhat worthwhile. But I'm one of the "faithful". I can't imagine someone who just wants to use their computer to get things done spending an extra $99 per year.

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blogChalking

Daniel Pádua

Collaboratively mapping weblogs for smarter blogsearching.

blogChalking is a movement attempting to create a region-sensible blog-search system - decentralized, improvised (influencing existing Internet search engines) and world-wide. Truly cool and simple.

Aw, what the heck. Here we go...

Google! DayPop! This is my blogchalk: English, United States, Massachusetts, Arlington, Michael, Male, 31-35!

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