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Macromedia! Cease and Desist! (January 7, 2005 02:00 PM)
I got a cryptic e-mail message recently, that barely made a ripple among the daily spam flood: How come you pop up on my computre without invitation. Get lost you MF As you can see there is not much we need to do to educate written communications skills these days...... «more»
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AT&T Wins The CogSogBlog All Time Customer Service Hall of Shame (January 3, 2005 11:14 PM)
Readers of the CogDog may know we are not that gentle towards bad service from big corporate entities. My recent experience with AT&T Universal and Phone Company (and whatever the other percentage of the universe they own) has earned them the all time Pile of Stinky Poop Award for doing... «more»
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Spammers New Year's Resolution: Stick Their URLs in Any Hole They Can Find (January 1, 2005 09:45 AM)
It's mid morning the first day of 2005, relaxing peacefully in our hideaway cabin ion Strawberry, a warm fire is in the stove, and the sky out the window is heavy with clouds-- and it looks like spam is failing from the sky, in big ugly clumps. Yup, on a... «more»
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Heavy Web Pages and Content Density (December 22, 2004 10:22 PM)
I have barked some about "information density" something lifted from the Tomes of Tufte -- in my web travels I come across some sites that just have way too much in the gutters, banners, et al, and not much meet. Since Clara Peller is not around much, I have to... «more»
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How to Stop HTML Thieves (December 22, 2004 09:15 PM)
A frequent question we get from our Writing HTML tutorial is: "what code can I use to prevent people from viewing/stealing the source code of my web pages?" and the answer is very similar to what i say to people when they want to protect their images on web pages... «more»
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What a Maroon (December 21, 2004 07:00 AM)
Oi, have the spammers gone wacko. Bonkers. What are they smokin'? Got a notice yesterday one tried to insert a bunch of typical "win poker cialis v*iagra celebrity beastiality pix enlarge your _____ shrink your ______ bad credit erased" URLs into one of our sites that allows honest people... «more»
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Sigh, No News From Phentermine Spammer (December 16, 2004 02:12 PM)
Well it has been 3 days since I yelled out "Hey Phentermine Pusher: You Left Your Roach Prints in Our Spam Honey Pot" seeking this person to reach out by email, say hello, and claim their prowess. I even offered 100 clams to them just for taking credit. No response.... «more»
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An Innovations Conference Without Internet Is Like... (December 14, 2004 10:15 AM)
We just got the notification for our presentation on our Ocotillo projects at the League For Innovation's "Innovations 2005" conference to be held March in New Yoirk City. The conference is tagged as: Join the most innovative community college professionals as they come together to improve student and organizational learning... «more»
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Hey Phentermine Pusher: You Left Your Roach Prints in Our Spam Honey Pot (December 13, 2004 09:10 AM)
Spammers can hid, but they are not invisible. On Dec 10, I invited readers of this blog to send us some Trackbacks to MLX Packages... while I am eager to see this technology used, this was actually a bit of bait. Our regular MLX spammer bit the bait completely. Within... «more»
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Take the Spam Filtering Survey (December 9, 2004 11:45 AM)
I am not sure what he is doing with the results, but it looks like John Graham-Cumming is collecting data on people's attitudes and annoyances with e-mail spam-- check out the Spam Filtering Survey: This survey will lead you through a number of pages asking about you, your attitude towards... «more»
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Spamshirt... Finally! Something Productive You Can do With Spam (December 6, 2004 07:54 PM)
Spamshirt.com will help you make a customized t-shirt out of of your favorite email spam subject line... or choose from their library. We at spamshirt have come up with a plan: recycling useless spam into sparkling new t-shirts! environmentally conscious, and a new lease of life for all that spam... «more»
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Title Tag Silliness (December 5, 2004 11:54 PM)
Unanswered Nitpicky Technical Wonderment Number 894: Why do people put HTML tags inside content within a web page's <TITLE>....</TITLE> tags? Why would one want line breaks in a title bar string, and what is used in browser history and even RSS Feeds? Why http://audiences.blogspot.com/? Why http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1735546,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 (well, if the ASP... «more»
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Sony Stomps on Kottke (December 3, 2004 06:15 PM)
Bloggers can start feeling like their voice is powerful, but the power may be vaporized in the face of multibillion dollar companies. Jason Kottke, who has had a great running fascination with Ken Jenning's wild Jeopardy marathon, apparently is being threatened by Sony (who owns the show and likely 1/3... «more»
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Is eBay Customer 'Service' Smokin' Crack? (December 3, 2004 12:39 PM)
If you think I get overly torqued about spammers, poor web site from big entities and doofus customer service is right up there as well. I continually deal with some online banking and bill paying service that works marvelously, and yet fight others (hello CitiBank) that offer "service" that is... «more»
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How I Have Spent/Wasted Time Lately (November 30, 2004 11:41 PM)
Ouch, my blogging fingers are rusty. Among tweaking and updating many of our project web sites this week, an inordinate amount of time has been spent: * cleaning up the droppings we find on our wikis (Thanks for all the potted meat food product shipped directly from Southeast Asia- love... «more»
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Stoopid Web Design Confounded By Stoopider Customer Service (October 16, 2004 03:27 PM)
As a single developer, I have programmed and designed a number of web transaction systems, and not one of them was limited to use on platform or web browsers (well to be honest, our 1998 Hero's Journey site has some JavaScript quirks that prevent full use on some browsers, then... «more»
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Syllabus Magazine Drops Faculty Audience for Presidents/CIOs (October 14, 2004 08:29 PM)
I've been reading Syllabus magazine for quite some time, not always agreeing with everything in print, but I found good stories on instructional technology, case studies, review of technology that faculty use. But all that has been flushed. Syllabus has morphed to "Campus Technology" ...the complete resource for leaders in... «more»
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A Message From a Wiki Spammer (October 7, 2004 09:38 AM)
Sigh. It is no wonder no work is going on this morning. Our Asian wikis spammers returned, this time not only spamming our pages, but creating their own... and this time leaving a veiled threat of a message: Please do not delete. I send this message only one time, in... «more»
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Another in A series of Lows for Spammers: PhotoBlogSpam (October 7, 2004 07:38 AM)
Everywhere you look on the internet the spammers are crapping and leaving their fetid roach turds. Last Spring, I did a presentation at the online TCC04 Conference on PhotoBlogging "Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images". In that session I described how one can post photos to such sites, and... «more»
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Spam's Quiet on the Western Front (October 3, 2004 07:43 PM)
I hope this is the last on MLX spam for a while. I'd rather be writing code for adding features to it than trying to fortify the moat. And I guess my finger pointing at domain registrars was off base as pointed out by some comments earlier today. Somebody out... «more»
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Spam: The International Game of Intrigue and Mystery (October 3, 2004 08:11 AM)
Our hourly comment spam assaults on the Maricopa Learning eXchange ceased around 10:00pm local time yesterday. My best guest is that the spammers mommy finnaly told him/her it was time to shut fof the computer, brush their teeth, and off to bed. Likely, after a bowl or two of Cocoa... «more»
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MLX Spam Direct Route to Trash (October 2, 2004 08:25 AM)
Yes, I have been a bit obsessed lately with the roaches who have been spamming our Maricopa Learning eXchange. This is not all I have been doing this week, but it grinds away. I have a latest fix which will be secretive since I believe the spammer is a reader... «more»
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At Least Someone is Using the Wikis (bad news, they are spammers) (September 26, 2004 09:29 AM)
We've got some regular visitors to some of our Ocotillo wikis, too bad they are not contributing to our collaborative space, unless you think that inserting about 150 URLs for Asian web sites has something to do with Learning Objects. They hit the same pages, and in fact are wiki... «more»
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Spam Test (September 24, 2004 01:40 PM)
The demo blog I set up for the Low Threshold Applications site as the pro-bestiality cluns, the online gambling groups, and the freaky flesh photographers and their assorted scary friends have been paying daily visits. I have a new scheme which has plugged them up pretty good, so I am... «more»
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A New Low For Spammers: MLX Package Comment Spams (September 22, 2004 12:47 PM)
I just got a message from one of our faculty member's who got a notice that her Maricopa learning eXchange "package" on Creating a Webliography was blessed with a comment from "Casino Gambling" offering tons of wonderful and exotic URLs for various substances and things I had never heard of.... «more»
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Stupid Ice Breaker Tricks (September 21, 2004 08:45 PM)
If I ever came across this in a workshop or presentation, I'd be headed for the door or flipping the laptop open while praying for wireless. In the September 2004 Training & Development Magazine, under a department of fundamentals is "A Trick For Your Trade" Are you looking for a... «more»
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No Excuse for Linkrot (September 17, 2004 09:25 AM)
Linkrot is a preventable scourge- it is rampant despite the available of utterly simple solutions. What is Linkrot? Jakob coined it early, when web sites are "improved" or "redesigned", often web urls are changed, or files are moved to a new directory, or just taken off the server. This is... «more»
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WikiSpam is Making me Grrrrrrrrr (September 13, 2004 10:40 PM)
Attention everyone in IP 221.*.*.* and 60.*.*.* - you have been banned from our Ocotillo wikis. Sorry if you are accidently in that group, but place the blame on 221.198.73.159, 60.25.119.199, 221.196.57.131 and who has been repeatedly inserting into our wikis a mangle of URLs to strange Asian URLs, and... «more»
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Spammers Never Rest (September 7, 2004 09:17 PM)
Sigh. The wiki euphoria may be short lived. I've just wiped out a pile of link insertions from a pile of weird Chinese web sites from some of our Ocotillo wikis. Sure, I can remove them and ad some IPs to the banned list, but that approach surely will not... «more»
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Abandon IE Now (August 31, 2004 09:54 AM)
In a world where human behavior is in accordance to PT Barnum's laws, we all would be using Internet Explorer. I am afraid we live in that world. I waste more time trying to fix CSS problems in IE than I care for. Why cannot those Microsoft engineers build a... «more»
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You Know Your Organization's Web Site Is A Mess... (August 27, 2004 12:07 AM)
... when it takes less time to find a department's web page via Google than navigating the main site itself.... «more»
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Zillman Blog Endless Link Loop: Where's the White Paper? (August 16, 2004 07:34 PM)
Sifting through the EDU_RSS feeds this evening, I found this reference: Bots, blogs and news aggregators The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I'm working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I'm about... «more»
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Gooey GUI Bloopers- Web Site Must Be a Self Referential Joke? (August 9, 2004 08:15 AM)
I picked this one off the pile of RSS feeds, GUI Bloopers a site supporting a book about software design "mistakes". I have to admit to not doing more than scanning the table of contents, so the book may be a fine treasure indeed, but the web page here just... «more»
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Kick the Dog About the Blog (August 4, 2004 02:09 PM)
I asked for it. I got it. Some good, healthy, swift kicks regarding yesterdays 2 part frothy rants on This Ain't No Blogging (parts 1 and 2), both via comments and trackbacks. Thanks Scott, Dan. Stephen, James, David, Rino (I think, I cannot read Norwegian), Brian, Tom and everyone else... «more»
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Stephen Blogs then Spammers Mob (July 27, 2004 06:08 PM)
I hold Stephen Downes as the uber edu-blogger- and givne his following, when he mentions one of our sites like he did today, the comments come flying in, the Trackback meter spikes... and as an un-intended sign of the ripples in the net, the spammers swarm in like a bunch... «more»
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How to Stop HTML Thieves (July 20, 2004 10:54 PM)
A frequent question we get from our Writing HTML tutorial is: "what code can I use to prevent people from viewing/stealing the source code of my web pages?" and the answer is very similar to what i say to people when they want to protect their images on web pages... «more»
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RSS Equalizer- Order Before Midnight Tonight and Get the Free Turnip Twaddler! (July 3, 2004 11:41 PM)
Beware of long scrolling web sites that start with: Attention: If you would like to get your Web pages to the top of search results (with very little effort), this letter is for you... "Discover An Amazing 'Technology' That Will Give You An Unfair Advantage Over Your Competitors And Increase... «more»
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Small Pieces Loosely Spammed (wiki grafiitti?) (July 3, 2004 07:42 AM)
There are interesting threads to read on peeling the layers of RecentChanges in wikis. While reflecting on the Small Technologies Loosely Joined NMC 2004 session we did last month ion Vancouver, I noticed that someone had taken the effort to paste a bunch of porn URLs on the front page,... «more»
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Coming to a Wiki Near You... (June 8, 2004 10:51 PM)
No, it is not Potted Meat Food Product, just down the shelf... Wikis: The Next Frontier for Spammers? Wiki maintainers can expect an increase in spam after a webmaster newsletter highlighted the effectiveness of Wiki spam in raising a site's Google ranking. WebProNews described how a webmaster improved his rank... «more»
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Xplana.com: The Fetid Stink of Linrot (June 4, 2004 08:41 AM)
Xplana.com is rotting in my aggregator- they used to have a series of education technology blog articles; I cannot say I was a frequent reader, but I monitored them on my regular rounds. But there is a foul, dead skunk smell coming from the aggregator coming from http://www.xplana.com/, and that... «more»
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Copyright Clearance? A Mountain of Paper? Arggh, Just Take 'em (June 3, 2004 01:46 PM)
Back in 1997, 1998 I created a old collection of digital photos from places I've been to in the southwest, More Than Just Four Corners. Like Meteor Crater, Havasupai, Chaco Canyon... Every now and then someone emails me asking for permission to use one of them (Google to the rescue),... «more»
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Give Credit Where Credit is Due! (June 3, 2004 12:15 PM)
Serendipity strikes again. Curiosity link from the footer of some forgotten blog landed me here. Give Credit Where Credit is Due apparently began in the lat 1990s as a effort to promote "link back" credits to the sources of images that are used on someone's web site. It is now... «more»
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BlogSpam: The Troops Are Getting Tired (May 19, 2004 04:17 PM)
Reports from the trenches on the fight against comment spam.... CDB has been relatively quiet since masquerading the URLs for comment scripts. However, two other blogs on our server, one for a college Center for Teaching and Learning and the other of an Art faculty member, were pummeled this week... «more»
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Rolling Up the Sleeves On Spam War Front (May 11, 2004 11:25 AM)
Yes, fighting blog spam has been a huge distraction. I would rather be creating things than roach stomping. But I refuse to close off comments completely; it runs dead against what blogs should do to foster community building. About 36 hours ago, I took the approach of renaming my mt-comments.cgi... «more»
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Spammers 12 / Me Zero (May 10, 2004 05:37 PM)
It was all for nought. My research, attempts to tidy up the movabletype holes, changing names of comment scripts, did squat. I just combed through and deleted 12 blog comment spams, generously sent in a swift spurt, all related somehow to animals, by guess. I am ready to raise the... «more»
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Spam Roach Spray (May 9, 2004 09:27 PM)
I told you I was serious. Steps have been taken to turn the tide on comment spam roaches. The MT-Blacklist can only go so far (and activity logs show it does squeeze out the regular v*agra repeat crowd). Image courtesy of the Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots . Next in the... «more»
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Now The Dog is Getting Pissed at Spammers (May 9, 2004 06:17 PM)
Grrrrrrr, you'd think perhaps on freakin' mother's day, the spam roaches might be doing something, but they obviously have no birth mothers, hatched in the sewers form when they came. 6 blog spams related to a topic I will not even defile this dog house with, all sent to... «more»
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Gifts for the (not so fine) folks at Cykanax (May 8, 2004 08:13 AM)
Woah, I lifted a rock on post about the pachyderm project from last month, and 6 spam roaches came scurrrying out. It seems the thoughtful folks at Cykan*ax were so impressed with the educational possibilities of Pachyderm that they wanted to share their "fantasies", "group activities", and other things... «more»
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Feeding the Feedback ("U Suk") (May 4, 2004 08:56 AM)
We crave feedback, right? That is the tickle bloggers get when there is email notification that someone has posted a comment. That is the reason why we build commenting features into system. It is what we look for in our online courses. It is what sends the blood boiling when... «more»
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The RSS Winterfest Will Not Stop (Annoying Me) (April 14, 2004 08:09 AM)
The party from the January RSS Winterfest seems to be lingering on- but I am not festive. I get daily emails notifying me of changes on their site, which I am not following nor interested in. Four freakin' times I used the link on their messages to set up email... «more»
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Tell John about Do Not Call (March 28, 2004 11:37 PM)
About every three-four works, my non-friend John leaves a message offering his services from "Credit Foundation of America". His recorded voice has a faux concern about why I have not called him back regarding their debt consolidation services (did I ever tell anyone I needed this? noooooo. Do I now... «more»
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Web Server Takes A Hoilday (March 22, 2004 08:50 AM)
This blog, as well as our RSS2JS service and our eportfolio server all took an unintended four day holiday. Last week was Spring break for our system, and our admin offices close on Thursday and Friday of that week. Our building had a planned electrical outage planned for Thursday AM... «more»
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Turn Your Attention A Second... Roaches Keep Coming (March 11, 2004 08:20 PM)
It's been a while since I posted about those smelly blog spam cock roaches... mainly because the MTBlacklist Plugin has been quietly running in the background. However, in the last two days the number and frequency of blogspam has picked up. You can identify them quite easily when the... «more»
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"Excuse Me, I Think You Dropped Something" (March 10, 2004 10:22 PM)
My work commute is not much more than 10 miles, but invariably during that morning stretch I witness at least once, someone tossing their cigarette butts out the car window. Maybe it is a lot of pent up frustration since the number of public places available for their habits is... «more»
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Stupid Email Request of the Week (March 8, 2004 09:55 PM)
Set up a feedback form on your web site, and you get cruft like: I am a marketer and am interested in buying the e-mail addresses of all your community colleges. Sure! Your odds are as good as a July blizzard in Phoenix. At least this spam merchant was direct.... «more»
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Mamas, Don't Let Your Programmers Be Web Designers (February 29, 2004 05:09 PM)
No, Willie Nelson did not pen this song, but I think Alan Cooper may have been an influence ;-) And this old song has been eating a lot of my time and productivity this week. But here is the moral first- Programmers are brilliant, intelligent people in their areas of... «more»
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XPLANA "Courseware Karma" On Graphics.... Karma Shmarma (February 10, 2004 06:53 AM)
Wow, XPLANA's Interface Impact When Developing and Teaching Online Courses : When using graphics in a course, it is imperative that the graphics match the subject matter they are being presented with. When graphics are either inappropriate (meaning that they either do not correspond with the subject matter or they... «more»
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"Type, Don't Click, URLs" sez Microsoft (January 31, 2004 07:23 AM)
Microsoft provides this "hard to believe someone wrote it seriously and they were not smoking crack" Knowledge Base article Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.. In a nutshell, the smart folks in Redmind suggest that... «more»
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Conversing with Symantec E-mail Virus Bouncebacks (January 29, 2004 07:01 AM)
This morning's unwanted, unwarranted, un-necessary e-mail virus bounceback count = 127 mass deleted. Let's talk with Symantec's email message, sent personally to me:... «more»
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Sneaky E-mail Fraud Attempt (January 28, 2004 07:11 AM)
It's bad enough I am mass deleting virus generated e-mails (there were 66 this morning, about 8 hours later than the cleansing last night) but I got one on my home e-mail account, all be-decked with formal looking graphics. It made me suspicious....... «more»
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And My Right Little Toe is a Weblog (January 27, 2004 10:45 PM)
A recent barking about "everything is a learning object", including my left big toe got some interesting responses-- sometimes you can slave over an important blogged item and get nary a trackback, but toss out something silly and it ends up down under somewhere. So part two to this escapade... «more»
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Not So Great Moments in Software Design #945,562 (January 27, 2004 11:59 AM)
It is happening again. If you are like me, you have spent a chunk of time every few hours recently deleting piles of messages from email virus protection systems elsewhere, all claiming that I sent them infected emails (the latest viral attachment crud, W32.Novarg.A@mm, yum what a name). Nothing has... «more»
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One of Those Days (January 20, 2004 10:59 PM)
Did you ever have one of those days where every piece of technology you touched went up in screaming flames and thick smoke? That was today for me. It began while trying to test the new 2.661 version of MovableType. Typically what I do is to create a copy of... «more»
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Quick! Get Use out of RSS before the Vultures Ruin It (December 16, 2003 06:27 AM)
There are people who can look at a peaceful valley or serene mountain vista and only see how it can be exploited; they see only golf courses, shopping malls, and asphalt. Likewise, there are those that can only look at a useful communications technology and only rub their hands in... «more»
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Does Rackspace.com coddle Spam Roaches? (December 3, 2003 07:17 AM)
I thought I really had nailed a blog spammer by tracking down the internet provider, documenting, and submitting all the information to the appropriate abuse contact. What I got in return was zilch. Why would an internet provider protect me from spammers? They might be paying customers and I... «more»
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Spam Roaches Could Not Find it Here (November 17, 2003 06:59 AM)
More detective work with analysis of web server logs with AWstats shows that poor spammers are unable to find their links on my web site. Alas! What is a roach to do! Does that mean that they will target me next? No luck, as they are blocked at the door... «more»
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Mark Lays out the sobering truth on blog-spam (November 15, 2003 04:34 PM)
The euphoria of stomping out blog spam cockroaches may be short-lived. Mark Pilgrim lays out the depressing, sobering truth on weblog spam [dive into mark]. Mark sez the good times will last last than a month... And then the spammers will strike back. They'll complain to your ISP that you're... «more»
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Attention Blog Spam Roaches: Read the Manifesto! (November 12, 2003 08:07 PM)
Adam Kalsey provides the rallying cry to in his Comment Spam Manifesto. Also check out Adam's story of nailing a blog spam roach where it hurts. What you failed to understand is that bloggers are smarter, better connected, and more technologically savvy than the average email user. We control... «more»
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BlogSpamming: Tossing Good URLs into the Spam Mix (November 11, 2003 06:27 AM)
Another twist by the blog comment-spamming "community". In a twice submitted comment to 2 unrelated posts on my MovableType blogs, "Peter" blog-spams: Great comments guys. Peter <a href="http://www.fda.gov/">FDA</a> As if Peter was trying to get me to toss the US Food and Drug Administration into my MT-Blacklist?? Or Peter... «more»
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3 Blog Spam Roaches Smashed (November 4, 2003 06:33 AM)
Just when you thought it was safe to blog.... 3 pairs of blog spam comments came in over night, and STOMP, STOMP, STOMP, they are gone thanks to Jay Allen's MT Blacklist plugin. But the pattern is disturbing. Each of these came as faked comments to the same 2 blog... «more»
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Blog Spammers Getting More Desperate, More Subtle (October 31, 2003 09:16 AM)
Now that MovableType bloggers can feel slightly more protected from weblogs comment spam thanks to Jay Allen's MTBlacklist plugin, do not feel like this will drive the pesky spam-roaches away. Remember that their whole goal is to insert their viagra, porn, rip-off sales, etc web site addresses into your pages... «more»
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How to Run a Dysfunctional Software Development Collaborative in Ten Easy Steps (October 26, 2003 08:59 PM)
The following is based on actual experiences. Names have been change.. nahhh, no names are used. But I was there.... «more»
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Just When I thought it was safe to dump IE... (October 22, 2003 10:11 AM)
Darn! I was that close to being able to complete use Safari for my Mac browsing (love the tabs, the rendering, the bookmark menus on the toolbar..) but alas, another hitch appears. This morning trying to post my latest entry, I kept getting timeout errors on MovableType Rebuild. I tried... «more»
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Blog Spam sneaks under the Wire (October 10, 2003 10:32 PM)
Well I feel safer having implemented my blog-spam defense perimeter but apparently there are still some pesky cockroaches sniffing around the edges. Here is another one for those keeping their blog spam filters up to date: IP Address: 219.141.115.94 Name: gifts Email Address: gifts-catalog@yahoo.com add to the banned domains: lstor(dot)com... «more»
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Blog-Spammers:10, Me:0 (October 8, 2003 06:28 AM)
I give up. The rate of blog comment spam to this site is bothersome, now with 10 banned IPs (which likely does very little), and going in to remove the comments manually is getting very old. The latest, unrelated, un-meaningful, unwanted, undesired, unethical, un-freakin' stooooopid crap that arrived in my... «more»
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Fake Philosophical Blog Spam (October 2, 2003 10:28 AM)
it is getting worse. Now are these messages that arrive as comments to an old blog entry: We live in strange times, but someday I think we will look back on all of this and marvel at how crazy it was. God, I hope so. I sure wouldn't want this... «more»
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Blog Comment Spam #3 (of ???) (September 28, 2003 07:19 AM)
Sigh. You get pretty excited, your tail wags, when you get an email notifcation of comments to one of your blog entries. You jump up and down when it is a batch of 4. However, like recently and more recently, we have recieved undesirable spam in this blog's comments. How... «more»
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Mikey and Alec Comment Show (September 17, 2003 09:42 PM)
Well there are spammers and then there are goofballs you have nothing better to do then send juvenile comments to my blog. This dog lifts a leg on Mike and Alec. Congratulations to "michael farrell" and "Alec" for their Oxford English command of the written word (congrats also for being... «more»
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Stupid Practice in Email Virus Protection Systems: Stop Spamming the Innocent (September 9, 2003 01:30 PM)
This dog is angry. Spam is a reality, some 40% of email traffic. But there is absolutely no reason for the email scanning systems put in place to be sending reject emails back to accounts when the viruses generating them are spoofing (forging) the emails. I cannot be the only... «more»
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SoBIG is My Deletion Task (August 21, 2003 06:21 AM)
Anti-Virus detection systems are removing viral email attachments, but they waste my time and clog the net with un-needed traffic by bouncing messages back to people who did not actually send them. So far, about every 8 hours, I have to delete 60-100 Anti-Virus detection messages from my inBox. I... «more»
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#$!@ Blog Spammers (August 20, 2003 10:07 AM)
It's been bad enough delting the email crud generated by the latest virus, but today I got my first porn content inserted into a comment on this weblog, with links to just about everything possible you could imagine being enlarged, shrunk, photographed, made money on, etc. So if you exercise... «more»
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MERLOT: Customs or UPS Ate My Poster (August 5, 2003 05:12 PM)
My decision to send my poster materials to the MERLOT conference by "express" shipping looks shaky. Apparently, my "packages" were held at customs for extra taxes, my office authorizied, and who knows where they are right now. C'est la vie. So for now, my Maricopa Learning eXchange poster is very... «more»
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Dullest Blog in the World (over-blogging) (July 17, 2003 12:31 PM)
If ever I think I am blogging too many things, I can use the dullest blog in the world as my reference point. Very tongue-in-cheek (we hope), this blog includes fascinating tidbits such as: Taking a short break July 2I was doing some things. After a while I decided to... «more»
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Happy 50th, DNA (June 1, 2003 08:05 PM)
Wow, actually I thought the 2003 Double Helix Celebrations site would be a "good dog." After all, a historical look at the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick's discovery of the DNA double helix structure, should be a gold mine.... «more»
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Stomp Click Here (May 21, 2003 05:38 PM)
One of my major, growling rotweiler pet peeves are the millions, no billions, or web pages that have "click here" links for hypertext. It completely defeats the entire concept of hypertext as an in-context connection to related content. Well-written hypertext subtly weaves the link by the choice of words used... «more»
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Blog Etiquette: Get The Source (April 22, 2003 09:39 PM)
I've noticed quite often as I read more blogs, that people are blogging on another person's blog on an original post... Why do they not go to the bother to credit the source? Here is one example from Xplana that not only mangles the credit, but does a crappy link... «more»
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