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August 2006

Mail rule to catch image spam

This is Mac specific, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people with more primitive computers could do something analogous. Basically we create a Mail rule that matches image spam messages: “The rule is based off of Bill’s observation that these spam emails always come from a different address, and the content type header (as you might now assume) begins with multipart/related'” Read more: A Mail.app rule for catching image spam – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

New York Times from the future

Look closely at this screen grab off the New York Times site. It was published on August 6, 2006. Look at the calendar on the wall. It’s only August 2, at least here in Boston. Maybe time moves quicker in New York? Picture 2-24 Technorati Tags: funny, newyorktimes

July 2006

Kurzweil AI.net has some good stuff

I knew about this site but recently came across a link to another quite interesting article, “Why We Can be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter of a Century”. Yes, Kurzweil’s books are too long and repetitive, and he does hold some unusual views, but ...

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Has my email somehow been hacked?

Ok, oh wise listeners out there. Here’s what’s happened to me twice now in the last week. Basically I receive a large number of email bounce messages which were sent ‘from’ xxx@blogbridge.com, where I never heard of xxx. And there are a ton of different xxx’s. When I say a large number, it’s aroun...

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Reminder: Tomorrow, Geek Dinner, July 19 (tomorrow!)

Just a quick reminder that we are having another super-informal-geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks Geek Dinner, and we have a lovely new location, sponsored by our friends at Permabit. The location is on First Street, in Cambridge, MA, USA, in the so-called Davenport Building, on the second floor. See you there! Here are the coordinates: > When: July 19, Wednesday, 6:30pm to 9:30pm Where: Permabit, 25 First Street, 2nd Floor. Across from the Galleria Mall. Topics of discussion: AJAXPHPOPMLRSSJAVAETC Please confirm your attendance by clicking here!