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Entries from September 2004

Doc Going Postal

September 27th, 2004 · No Comments

It bothers me when I read entries like this one from Doc Searls about spam problems. There are solutions out there that work including SimpleFilter. Spam has not been an issue in my life for quiet some time thanks to SimpleFilter so its tough when I hear people still having issues out there but doing […]

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Announcing KosmoBlog Version 1.2

September 26th, 2004 · No Comments

Announcing Version 1.2 of the still unofficial KosmoBlog. Here are the key new features in this release: Added “Post Web Page” function. Allows custom static HTML web pages to be inserted in the standard templates and managed within KosmoBlog. Added function to automatically rename photographs when duplicate name is used. This is to facilitate the […]

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Gmail Spam Detection

September 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

I've been using GMail for the last few months for all my mailing lists. I find it incredible with its auto-threading of subjects which makes it useful with mailing lists. I used to have all my mailing lists come in as feeds into Bloglines but not since I discovered GMail. However, today I noticed that […]

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Robosapien

September 15th, 2004 · No Comments

I'm curious as to why but not surprised to find out that Mark Tilden is behind this: Mark, the designer of Robosapien, is a robotics physicist who has worked for NASA, DARPA and JPL through Los Alamos National Laboratory. He developed the basics for biomorphic robotics in 1988; Robosapien is the first commercially available robot […]

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Rate My …

September 15th, 2004 · No Comments

Ever since the HotOrNot phenomenon there have been just about every conceivable Rate My this or that site but this one left me speechless this morning. Note: Definitely G-rated (geek) so no worries opening up at the office.

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Clippy Hoax To The Rescue

September 10th, 2004 · No Comments

I like this one: Source: http://wizbangblog.com/archives/003622.php

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How to Build Your eRetail Business with a Blog

September 7th, 2004 · No Comments

Here is “How to Build Your eRetail Business with a Blog (6-8% of Readers Convert to Buyers)“

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Category: Corporate Blogging

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Six Types Of Business Blogs – A Classification

September 7th, 2004 · No Comments

I thought I'd start a catagory on Corporate Blogging. Basically I'll just point to others making points about business/corporate blogging. Here is the first one: Six Types Of Business Blogs – A Classification

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Rogers Cable Internet Update #43

September 7th, 2004 · No Comments

Well, I haven't posted much to this category because it would require a full time job of updating. Plus, basically the connection has been horrible all summer so there wasn't much new to say until recently. Except that last week another technician came out to check things and after determing that the signal was OK […]

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CRTC Looks At Voice Mail Spam

September 7th, 2004 · No Comments

Looks like the CRTC in Canada may finally do something about this or at least they are having a hearing about this coming up. Its about bloody time. Of course, Bell Canada could take some measures to thwart this pretty easily. They could have an option allowing me to set that I do not want […]

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Category: Spam

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