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My email address has been sold!
While this really isn't a new occurrence, it is interesting to note who sold it and who bought it. Several years ago, I read about someone that creates a new email aliases for each website he visits. Since I run my own domain and can easily do this, I adopted website.com@gruby.com which lets me easily track (and disable) email addresses. Today I received email from the San Jose Mercury News; I signed up on their website at one time to view some article and used a new email address. I also uncheck the "share my name" options and all the email options. Well, it looks like the Mercury News feels they need to support their website by sending out spam. The email I received today was a paid advertisement from the Phil Angelides campaign.
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I'm famous!
OK, maybe not, but as I was doing a routine search for my name, I came across an RFC (Request for Comments) based on my "NotifyMail protocol". I'm not sure why someone bothered to write it up, but it is RFC 4146, title "Simple New Mail Notification". For a geek, that's pretty cool.
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Software Installers should have uninstallers
I've not been a huge fan of either software installers or uninstallers, but understand the need for installers. Recently I tried out a program on my Linux box and used the installer to install it; I was unimpressed with the software and the mess it scattered over my drive. I looked around, but couldn't find an uninstaller. Maybe I deleted it trying to quickly recover from what it had done or maybe it didn't come with one. If it didn't come with one, it should have. It took me awhile to remove what it installed and then it wasn't until a day later that I discovered it changed some of my system files. Luckily I had backups of those and was able to restore them. Hopefully I'll no longer complain about shipping a product with an uninstaller as I now know firsthand how hard it is to remove some programs.
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Blogging, a year later
I've now been blogging for just over a year. In that time, I've written about many random topics from politics to technology. The most popular article, by far, has been my review of the Garmin Forerunner 305. This article has been quite valuable, it appears to many looking at the device. All my other posts seem to be for my own entertainment, which is fine by me.