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Monday, 25 February 2008
A big thumbs down to Toshiba for their negligent decision to not offer any refunds to people who trusted them enough in the last couple of years to buy one of their HD DVD players.
Monday, 18 February 2008
Like almost all websites, the overwhelming majority of our visitors come to us via a search engine. Knowing that Google dominates, I was nevertheless curious to look at our own statistics, just to see to what extent.
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Monday, 11 February 2008
A few days ago the folks over at the SMH Mashup Blog asked “does white pages search suck?”. The overwhelming reply was along the lines of “yes, it does suck”.
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Monday, 4 February 2008
MS Outlook uses a “tracking option” which enables the sender of an email to determine when the recipient has actually read it. If, like me, you find this “feature” an intrusion of privacy, you can do something about it.
I simply use the following regular expression pattern in my spam filtering software:
REJECT = ^disposition-notification-to: .*
While someone requesting a “read receipt” doesn’t technically make it spam, the end result is good enough for me; their email just gets deleted before it gets into my inbox.
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