>>  "Today's pick automatically spawns a 450x500 content window, centered on the screen, which preloads its 18 images very quickly.  I found the narrative quite engaging, though I did have to work in spots to read it.  It's all handwritten, like words scrawled on rock.  The visuals are artsy and the words, thought provoking...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 11/1/02] 

Gregory Blake:  "On the plus side, for those of you in Boston who don't sleep. On Saturday night, after the midnight hour you'll be able to hear me on WZBC. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to spin yet. I think I may just bring a whole heck of a lot of records and do the whole eclectic thing. I've been toying with the idea of pulling out some of my old trance stuff that I haven't played in ages. We'll see." 

New Outlook to give spammers the boot.  The first test version of Microsoft's new e-mail software takes a different approach to handling e-mail formatted like Web pages, a move designed to cut down on unwanted messages.  [CNET News.com]

Although the Outlook 11 feature could lessen the hassle of unwanted e-mail, it could also filter out legitimate data, unless the default setting is changed. Microsoft is betting this inconvenience will be worth it to Outlook users who are sick of spam.

It's worth noting that "the feature can be turned off in several ways."  File that under "lessons learned" by Microsoft... 

Related:
Gregory Blake:  "Um, that's it? That's their solution to blocking spam? Don't load things like images. I can understand that it might stop spammers from using 'web beacons'. But spammers are going to keep spamming even without them. At least Apple is providing a way to identify spam and filter it off so that you don't even have to worry about seeing it. And if you don't look at it, you won't ever load those beacons." 

The open secrets of Saddam's inbox.  Journalists from a US website [Wired.com] find plenty of food for thought when they access e-mails sent to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.  [BBC News|TECHNOLOGY]

So, it's okay for Wired.com (sorry, but I don't link to sites with pop-under ads) to hack a website and even tell its readers how it was done.  I know Saddam's a "bad guy" and all that, but that doesn't justify their actions, in my opinion anyway. 

November 2002

 


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