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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
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How to find out how often people are googling you: "I figured out accidentally a neat trick to find out how often people are searching on your name or seeing pages on which your name is prominent in some fashion. Buy a set of Google AdWords with your name. I composed a goofy ad for my name." [Boing Boing Blog]
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Where Is Spam When You Want It? "I need to attract spam to an e-mail address for a research survey I am conducting. I have submitted a few articles to a handful of Usenet groups, and I have signed up to some general mailing lists but so far I have nothing to show for it. How come by personal account gets 100+ spam each day yet when I try to find it I get nothing? Where should I post my address so that it attracts spam?" [Slashdot]
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Total Information Awareness, For One: "I decided to create a personal TIA program to track my own electronic movements... and to document every single electronically-recorded transaction I've made." [Slashdot]
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Getting a new PowerBook: "It's really a beautiful machine, fast, easy to configure (actually, works right out of the box), display is very crisp and the lit keyboard is subtle.. not annoying as I was worried. [...] I opted to purchase the Linksys 802.11g WAP. Hooked it up at the other end of the house.. and it works very well. Actually the signal is very strong and works not just throughout the house but also outside!" [kasia in a nutshell]
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Kissed by a butterfly: "I was kissed by a butterfly today. I was sitting in a beer garden with Horst, to enjoy what must have been one of the last truly warm late summer days, when suddenly a butterfly flew past, landed for split second on my arm, then flew off again. It was a truly elevating, almost poetic experience." [The Aardvark Speaks] I had a similar experience this summer, while I was taking photos of European peacocks and some other butterflies. The first time it was so suprising I didn't much have time for thinking, and the butterfly flew away after "kissing" my hand. The same happened a second time, and I tried to transfer my camera from the hand the butterfly was sitting on to take a photo of the event. Unfortunately, the butterfly flew away, and I was not able to make the event repeat again. Here is one of the butterfly pictures:
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Virus poses as Microsoft update: " A Windows virus masquerading as a security update from Microsoft is spreading via e-mail, warn experts." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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