I’m sure that you are prevalent to getting scam emails just like I am. For me, there’s a class of them that I get one of per week, maybe two, that pretend to be a Voicemail. An urgent Voicemail. Possibly involving payments. Must be IMPORTANT! […]
READ MOREQuick daft one: a couple of days ago I learned about the Marble Arch Mound for the first time, from this enlightening Twitter thread: […]
READ MORESome two and a half years ago I bought my current Dell XPS 13. It came with a 512GB SSD, which I immediately replaced with a Samsung 960 EVO 1TB drive, reasoning that such an upgrade would last me a long time. […]
READ MORESo here we are: yesterday was the last day of June 2021 and I’ve suddenly remembered that my book The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures came out in June 2001. Twenty years ago. […]
READ MOREDuring these pandemic times, I’ve been changing my cover photo on Facebook every weekend to show some photo of where we’ve been in the past. Once we get to travel again – we’re both fully vaccinated, so it’s only a matter of time! – I’ll revert to photos every fortnight that I’ve taken on our trips. But for now, I just post some older photos. […]
READ MOREImagine my surprise a month ago when I got a letter in the mail from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. My initial reaction was that it was related to some tax thing, but when I opened it I read: […]
READ MOREThere’s a company here in Colorado that I’ve gotten to know over the past three/four years. They’re pretty successful in their particular market segment (which isn’t software or related to software, as it happens). To help with their success they use a database/web app from a third-party company (I’ll call them Hackjob Software) that essentially just targets this particular company’s market. […]
READ MOREYeah, right, I’m sure you suffer from them too. You learn to suffer them, and just delete them without deigning to read them. I get 50+ marketing emails (or phishing ones) every day on my work account from people I’ve never met or companies I’ve never used. It just stuns me that marketers think these emails (and how they structure them) are worthwhile. […]
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