So anyway…

A quote from a friend: “Proof that we really are in the 21st century despite the lack of flying cars and scarcity of TV phones… My friend just said ‘shit I just crashed my phone’.”

…and I feel fine. THE SKY IS ALWAYS FALLING

Andrew worked up this lovely “bad Latin” for my personal motto: Joculare eis, se non acciptia coiti. (I’ll give you a hint: It’s a saying, and it starts out “joke them if…”)

Although spamming has existed on the Internet since as early as 1978, the first major spamming incidents didn’t take place until the early 1990s. Spamming began becoming a major problem at the same time that the Internet began its exponential mainstream expansion in 1993 (also known as Eternal September). (Hmmm, that’s right when I was Continue reading →

In the calculus of Internet crime, two of the most sought-after commodities are zombie PCs and valid e-mail addresses.   One indication of the going rate for zombie PCs comes from a June 11 posting on SpecialHam.com, an electronic forum for spammers. The asking price for use of a network of 20,000 zombie PCs: $2,000 Continue reading →

No, it’s not a poltical thing, it’s just a bit of a giggle, really. If I wanted to start saying political things, it would be about the man’s actions in office, not that he bears a strange resemblance to a chimpanzee….