I've noticed something a little odd in the spam I've been getting lately. The message begins "Hello! I'm bored tonight. I am nice girl that would like to chat...". So far so, uh, bad -- nothing unusual in that. The odd thing is that with virtually all of these messages, the name of the sender...
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I've been hosting a few large files like the screencast demonstrating how to install and configure CaRP on a secondary server to prevent overburdening my main server or overrunning my bandwidth limit. This morning, I was unable to reach the secondary server, preventing me from even being able to view some of my webpages. So...
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If you've signed up for BlogRush yet, and have logged in a few times, you may have noticed something odd -- each time you load the dashboard page, the shape of that curve showing how many syndication credits you've earned seems a little different. I'm not just talking about the part of the curve for...
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John Reese announced a new service today that concerned me a little...because it's very similar to a project I've been working on for a few months. It looks like the future of link exchanges is the exchange of links and content. Here's an overview of what I've been working on:

Members of my service (the...
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Even the big boys sometimes shoot themselves in the foot. Something Shawn Casey is doing is hurting his email deliverability and probably his response rates, and while I know why he's doing it, there is a better way...

Hi Shawn,

I tried to get this message to you through your help desk, but I got...
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I just published my first ScreenCast (if you don't see it, it's because I'm split testing against the old version of that webpage, and you got the old one--sorry!) I checked out some Mac software first, but ditched it almost imediately--useless. I tried Wink next, but found it wholly unsuitable both for recording audio and...
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After my transition from Mail.app to Thunderbird today, I discovered that quite a few messages that I had deleted long ago in Mail.app had reappeared in Thunderbird. Here's my theory of how it happened and how people using Mail.app can be sure that they're not wasting a lot of hard drive space on deleted messages....
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Yesterday, I heard that version 2.0 of the Thunderbird email client had been released, so I decided to check it out. I would have switched a while back except for one annoying problem -- I prefer the two-paned view with a separate window for reading messages, which works great in Thunderbird except that when I...
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I recently signed up for a test drive of BidFuel.com (which I cancelled during the free period--it didn't look useful enough). Since then, I've started receiving spam at the email address I gave them--an email address I created uniquely for them. No one else has ever seen that email address. I recommend not signing up...
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I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom "1.0" format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: "Self reference doesn't match document location". I checked the feed, and sure enough, the...
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