Monthly Archives: October 2005

Stop bugging me!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 10/25/2005
Ugh... I'm all about the "social Web" when it's voluntary — love reading my friends' blogs and being able to peruse other people's bookmarks with del.icio.us, but I'm getting heartily sick of being spammed by services like Evite. For the past couple of days I've been getting spamvitations from Evite, from some PR firm that's [...]
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Happy birthday to email

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 10/24/2005
The Google Blog has a post about the first email, or at least what is arguably the first network email with an address with the ubiquitous @ symbol. Sent way back in October 1971. I'm just a smidge older than email, apparently, though I don't think I actually found out about email until I was [...]
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It's the details...

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 10/17/2005
It's the little things that can make a big difference... Case in point, I was noticing that damn my secondary desktop with the fresh Breezy install seemed really slow when I was grabbing updates ... like there was something wrong with nameserver resolution. After three or four incidents, waiting forever for my machine to grab [...]
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