Archive for category: Technology

A new kind of spam?

2 March, 2003 (16:52) | Technology | By: Kurt

I wonder if this is some bizarre variation on the Nigerian email scam. Received this just now via my feedback form: Sir we are one of the bigest family entertainment company in kuwait. We have 8 different branches all over the kuwait. We are interested to buy cotton candy vending machine. so could you please [...]

Here’s a good start on defining blogging terms

27 February, 2003 (02:39) | Technology, Vanity Publishing | By: Kurt

Yesterday I mentioned that while there exists a few “blog glossaries,” none really seem to take the subject seriously enough to be of use. (What’s the use of defining opaque terms with even more opaque terms?) Tonight I came across an example of the kind of glossary I think we need: Phil Gyford’s “An introduction [...]

Ask and you shall not receive

26 February, 2003 (14:27) | Technology | By: Kurt

I received my first search engine referrals from Ask Jeeves today, and it took me back to 1999, when I tried to use this “natural question”-based search engine for a month before giving up in frustration. (And point of fact, someone showed me Google and it was love at first site, and I never turned [...]

Edit your own Psycho shower scene

11 September, 2002 (00:19) | Technology | By: Kurt

Via the Psycho Studio created by Brendan Dawes, you can try your hand at editing the famous shower scene that was drawn up by Saul Bass. (Found at Exploding Fist.) I did it, and must admit my version looked pretty swift. But I think this has nothing to do with my film editing experience and [...]

Mozilla and RSS feeds

5 September, 2002 (02:42) | Technology | By: Kurt

I seem to be reading a lot of Mozilla-related blog posts lately, extolling the virtues of this open-source web browser, so I thought I would throw one of my own into the ring. I had resisted the urge to even delve into what is Mozilla, like I resist looking into many things that have a [...]

Yahoo redesign

13 June, 2002 (23:44) | Technology | By: Kurt

I see that Yahoo! is contemplating a new design. The most striking thing to me about the new design is the realization that I never look at Yahoo’s front door anymore. I still do use Yahoo, all my email is read via Yahoo Mail, I belong to some groups over at Yahoo Groups, and I [...]