We Love Yahoo Spam

Yahoo Groups – “opt in” marketing settings set to “Yes” without customer notice, resulting in large increases of spam. Apparently, when Yahoo was “down” recently, in addition to whatever else they did, they also reset everyone's marketing preferences back to “Yes”. These settings not only apply to Spam, but also to junk snail mail and [...]

The Commander's Thoughts

“These are the people who stand in line at McD's staring at the menuboard with their mouths gaping because they don't have enough brain-power to keep their mouths shut and think at the same time. Next time you are in a fast food place, take a look around at all the gaping mouths and scrunched [...]

From Robert (Bob) H. Bean, Ph.D.

I am a clinical psychologist so maybe a little info on OCD can help. First, many people confuse Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). With the O-C Personality disorder, we are taliking about long-standing personality traits of orderliness, cleanliness, etc. These people tend to have a personality that has traits that significantly interfere with [...]

It's Official

I'm getting the M8535LL/B (high-end) iMac tomorrow in Palo Alto. Can ya join me, if only for kicks? Especially if you have a digital video camera on hand; we can record the process and get it on my TV show. I have a luncheon at noon, but plan on being down there around 3:00PMish. If [...]

Daily Tip

I've Got A Stiffy

“I'm sure I won't be the only one of your South African subscribers to point out that, in this country, the 5 1/4 inch floppy is referred to as a 'floppy' and the 3½-inch floppy is referred to as a stiffy / stiffie. So, a new PC may be advertised as having, among other things, [...]

Who Let The Cat Out

Now's as good a time as any to tell you what I've been up to for the past week or so. Of course, a few women WHO I WILL NOT BE NAMING IN THIS SENTENCE have already leaked the URL. Big sloppy wet kisses to Cheyenne, Christine, Robyn, and Meryl. They understand there's a madness [...]

This Thing Is Awesome

The ProScope brings unprecedented flexibility and excitement to the learning process. Gone are the frustrations of conventional microscopes. Finally, the teacher and student can focus on what is important. Find something you like? With the press of a button, the camera captures the image and stores it as a file in the location of your [...]

Call for Help Rerun

Ev is on tomorrow. Watch or die.

The Proximitron

“In today's newsletter, you mentioned a popup / ad blocker called Pow. Seems interesting, but I found an app a while back that I think is really just the best I have ever seen. I use Windows on my desktop machine, but in my heart I am a UNIX geek. I have been looking for [...]

Auction Informant

Auction Informant sits quietly in the system tray and monitors the items you (or any seller) are selling on eBay. When any item receives a bid or a bid retraction, it will send an email message alerting you. It can even send text messages to your wireless phone or pager. The program can monitor the [...]

MasterMind by Christine Moerth

The object of this game is to guess the sequence of a number of colored pegs the computer has selected at random. You can select with how many different colors and how many columns you want to play (3 – 7 each). With the number of colors and/or columns you can raise the degree of [...]

Sleepy Squared

I wasn't expecting to spend so much time setting up a new Web site (which hasn't gone live yet). Once the template is in place, everything else is cake. Jake and I were mulling over our options this afternoon. We were lamenting the fact that we couldn't add some type of “Ratings” feature to this [...]

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