June 2003

So, you want to be read?

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This is a very nice writeup by Arve Bersvendsen on how to be read, and how to make a good weblog. What he writes I happen to agree with, but don’t feel like it has to become THE absolute rules on how to make a good weblog: Virtuelvis: So, you want to be read? I especially like the part he has titled “Minimize idle talk”: Yes, a blog is personal, and one is entitled to write whatever one wants there, but writing when you really have nothing to say increases […]

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Gizmondo 1983

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This is a cool retro version of a blog I haven’t been reading enough (it seems): Gizmodo 1983 – turn back the time 20 years and be impressed by the “new” gadgets. Not all too original, Wired has run something simular – but it sure is a lot of fun remembering the former cool gadgets, and see how far we have come in 20 years. At the same time I can’t help but notice how little some things have changed too, concidering it has been two decades! [Via JD on

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A few good tips on how to battle spam with Eudora

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Install Spamnix, this anti-spam tool comes as a free trial and doesn’t cost much to buy Make sure that images in spam e-mails are never shown, most of them are linked with information about who you are – if you open them, they will give you away and verify your e-mail address. You can fix this in a couple of ways: Disable preview of e-mails by going to Tools -> Options ->Viewing Mail -> Preview Pane and un checking “Show messages in preview pane” While you are in that window,

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Spamnix for Eudora evolving

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Eudora has always been my favorite mail application. It (almost) supports standard mailbox format (one mailbox = one file) so its easy to port mail from one platform to another, if configured right its virtually bulletproof against viruses, and it just works. My one gripe with it is that its only available for Windows and Mac. I have written about how Eudora 6 will make it even easier to battle spam with Eudora, and I have to admit that when I saw in which direction Qualcomm is going with Eudora,

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Spam convention

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Good to see the spammers are taking time off from making all our lives miserable to actually have a convention. The DM Days New York Conference and Expo was held on the 2nd to the 4th of June, and gathered spammers from all over to discuss ways of reaching people through spam, and words that can no longer be used. (Including: limited-time, free, opportunity and only) I think such events are excelent ideas. Next year I hope to be there to do some LARTing with 2 by 4s. ;-)

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Fix to get Amphetadesk RFC compliant

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My favorite RSS aggregator is AmphetaDesk, its available for a whole range of platforms (including easy installs for Windows, Mac OS 7-9, Mac OS X etc). Its a really nice piece of software, but in making it they implemented the requests for RSS feeds wrong. Instead of letting the users of Amphetadesk include themselves in the User Agent (which IMHO would be the right way to do it), they ask their users to include a URL that is sent with the request as a referer! Which, IMNSHO is wrong! If

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Spam fighting tools: Eudora 6.0 Beta

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I have been following anti-spam tools for a while, and in the latest year there has been a boom of services and programs to fight spam – for reasons obvious to anyone with an e-mail account. But what has become painfully obvious is that the e-mail programs themselves have to change in order for user-friendly solutions to spam fighting to appear. Apple was one of the first to launch such an e-mail program with their OS X mail application, supporting Bayesian filtering. Eudora is about to take it to the

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