Archives for July, 2004
Crash Test, Dummy
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
Two days old, but I just ran across it. Courtesy of channel9 and the fine folks at E-CQURITY we learn that one can crash all current versions of IE on Windows 2000 or XP with 11 bytes of data:
<STYLE>@;/*
IE users can enjoy the effects here. Firefox aficionados can sit around and laugh…but we [...]
Chicken, Egg, Lemming
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
Yesterday the Email Sherpa blog cited Return Path’s deliverability analysis in support of their earlier piece stating that Monday is the best day to send email campaigns. This is true, of course, but not anything close to the whole story.
Email Sherpa points out that the majority of commercial email goes out between Tuesday and [...]
More on Bayes
Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
But nothing about a bayesian avocado this time. Just a link to a interesting, non-mathematician accessible explanation of Bayes’ Theorem (coming to you courtesy of metafilter and the goodness that is FeedDemon Watches).
Just a Test
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
Yes, really just a test of some stuff for the feed, see how feedburner handles stuff. Nothing to see here, move along…
Resend any important personal email
Friday, July 16th, 2004
Since my readership is largely people who know me, I’ll post this here as well: my ISP’s mailserver was borked pretty much all of yesterday. Apparently there was no email loss, but all of my incoming mail — spam and otherwise — to all of my personal addresses was restored directly into my [...]
Again with the Search: Salon, this time
Friday, July 16th, 2004
So continuing the trend started by yesterday’s search post, I’ll note that Salon is today running a piece on Email and search.
Since I’ve got to get going shortly I’ll just post a couple of questions for your consideration:
Do you feel that the author of the Salon article is affected by the “in a Google world, [...]
Searching for Search Stuff
Thursday, July 15th, 2004
I just came across a reference to Blinkx (on metafilter, though my FeedDemon watch for search related stuff actually brought it to my attention). I bring it up because I’m fascinated by what’s going on with search right now, on a couple of levels.
In part it’s interesting to consider how much Google has fed [...]
The Deal: NewsGator Pricing, Corporate RSS, Miscellaneous
Tuesday, July 13th, 2004
First let me just say that I’ve very disappointed in all of you. I was hoping to get some brilliant insights for which I could take credit, and instead not nothing but a few moderately interesting questions. I have to do everything around here.
That said, I’ll move on. Our starting point was [...]
NewsGator Pricing, Corporate RSS, Miscellaneous
Sunday, July 11th, 2004
Our premise for the afternoon is as follows:
There exists an amalgam of software and services NewsGator, such that for each registered user of NewsGator the associated corporate entity receives revenue that is recurrent in nature.
Now, it turns out that I don’t have time to do the full post today, so we’ll make this interesting: [...]
“Minidisc Transcribing” Update
Tuesday, July 6th, 2004
About 72 hours after he published a post on the changing nature of advertising that contained an offhand mention of his desire for a minidisc transcribing machine, Doc Searls’ post is the one and only result of a google search for “minidisc transcribing”.
I choose to view this as evidence to support what I noted the [...]
