I'm not one to spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos, but videos like this make me wonder whether I'm missing more than I realized. This is the first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond in front of the green screen shooting the video. In the final video, you only saw a little...
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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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