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The Orbital Debris Quarterly News

Tuesday November 4, 2008

Just can’t get enough news about space garbage? Well you are in luck, my friend! From this week’s TMQ comes news of what has got to be the strangest mailing list to which you can subscribe:
The Orbital Debris Quarterly News is a publication of the NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. It is published [...]

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Faceted Email Browsing

Wednesday April 23, 2008

Seek allows for ‘faceted browsing’ of email and looks, pretty much, like the coolest thing to hit email since the @ symbol. It’s Thunderbird only, though. At this point I don’t know if it would be possible for me to abandon Outlook. The email functionality I could take or leave, but the [...]

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Akismet Works

Wednesday April 2, 2008

I installed Akismet here at the beginning of the Fall of 2006. I really don’t know how I lived without it. I emptied the queue about seven hours ago, and when I got to the office this morning there were already almost 1500 comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks flagged as spam.
Akismet has protected your [...]

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Email Should Always Be Plain Text

Sunday June 10, 2007

Zeldman does a spectacular job explaining why I hate when people use Word as their email editor.

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Turn On Links

Tuesday February 20, 2007

One of the world’s worst, most-annoying spam-prevention systems is the one in my current version of Outlook — Microsoft® Outlook® 2003 (11.8002.6568) SP2. I’d say about one out of every three times I attempt to click on a link in an email, I get a warning telling me that all links in the message [...]

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Email Cell Phone Pics

Friday February 16, 2007

My mom and dad both love taking photos with their cell phones and then texting them to me. As much as I enjoy receiving them, I hate the way they take for-freaking-ever to display on my phone. I also hate having photos on my cell phone. (You can’t do anything with them [...]

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Weight Spam

Friday November 3, 2006

I receive an incredible amount of spam. I have a dozen or so email accounts and I manage about two dozen websites. Plus I run the IT department at my office. I get about 500 spam comments and 1500 spam pingbacks and / or trackbacks on blogs each day, and that’s with [...]

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amspay otsbay ogay erehay

Friday January 24, 2003

amspay otsbay ogay erehay

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HideOutlook

Thursday June 20, 2002

Trust me. You want to go get HideOutlook from r2 studios. This little app is great! It lets you minimize Outlook to the system tray instead of the taskbar. Click the icon in the systray and Outlook pops open or closed; right-click it and you can create new email messages, appointments, [...]

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send entry

Thursday March 21, 2002

A few people have asked me how I got that little “eMail this entry” link on my posts. I wrote a little tutorial on my projects blog describing how I did it. Enjoy.

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