Banner.jpg is now “topimage.jpg”
Posted on February 29, 2004
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I finally got around to changing the name of the image at the top of the page so Norton’s Ad Blocking won’t think that image is something to protect me from. Turns out, I like Norton Ad Blocking on the PC. I’m sure there are others who do too and I want them to see the name of my site.
Advertising folks are realizing that with pop-up blocking software, they have to come up with new ways of getting ads in your face while surfing. I don’t mind website ads along the corners of a site, but I hate websites that make noise that I didn’t ask for. It’s a pet peeve of mine. I like surfing in silence or listening to what I want from iTunes (so muting the volume is not an option). I hate ads that sing, menus with sound effects, music files that play when you load a page, etc. Norton takes care of that for me so there are certain sites that I prefer to surf to from the PC because I know that Norton will keep them quiet for me.
It’s a temporary thing. I feel a redesign coming on, anyway. 
New website
Posted on February 28, 2004
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The new Saglo Development Corporation website went up today. This is a brand new website for a company that has never had a web presence before.
Saglo is a commercial real estate management company in the Miami Beach, FL area. The site is not incredibly complicated, but it was my first time using Dreamweaver’s PHP server behaviors to restrict access to certain pages. This is the website that I needed that vCard script a while back. The idea is that a tenant can log in and update their contact info and it gets emailed to my client in a way that they can easily get the data to their address book where the information is maintained. The entire site is screaming for more robust database solution, which may happen in time. This will do for now.
Blogrolling bought out by Tucows
Posted on February 27, 2004
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You may have already read that Tucows Inc. has acquired Blogrolling.com. As a Blogrolling.com subscriber, I thought it was appropriate to drop you a quick note introducing myself and Tucows. I also want to provide you with a brief overview of our future plans for Blogrolling.com.
Important things first - Tucows is planning to run Blogrolling.com *as is* for the foreseeable future. We will continue to evolve the service and ensure that it gets the care and feeding our subscribers deserve. We will *not* limit or disable the service in any way or prevent users of specific weblog/website management tools from continuing to use or access the service.
That’s good to know. Jason DeFillippo posted the news on his site today. I was glad to subscribe to support the site, and I’m looking forward to seeing what Tucows will do with it next.
Could someone explain this to me…
Posted on February 24, 2004
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because I just don’t get it.
If two adults make the commitment to combine their individual emotional and financial lives into a single unit…if they are going to look at each other’s families and call them their own…if they are going to consider raising children together…
Does it *really* matter whether or not they are the same gender?
I find it difficult to believe that our President has nothing more pressing on his domestic agenda.
SpamNet
Posted on February 22, 2004
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I’ve been hesitating to admit this, but I’ve moved some of my email to the PC. I’m using Outlook 2003 as my PIM now, because with it I can more easily sync email, contacts and calendar to my Palm T3 than I could with anything on the Mac. Plus, with my contacts in Outlook I can easily sync to my phone. I had to jump through so many hoops to get the data in sync that by the time I added up all the pieces it was cheaper and easier to just use Outlook. I have my virus protection up to date, and to be even safer I only view email in plain text and I know better than to click on any attachments.
I’ve set my main email account to be IMAP so I can easily share mail between the computers. It’s working beautifully, except for spam filtering. This is my main account, the one that I’ve been using everywhere for the past 4 years or so. It gets about 200 messages a day, 95% spam. With SpamSieve on the Mac, I didn’t care since I didn’t see those messages. The junk mail filter in Outlook and Norton AntiSpam are good, but they only work on POP email. I had to do some searching and trial and error, but I found something on the PC that works just as well with IMAP email. It’s called SpamNet. It’s an interesting concept. Users tell its database what is and isn’t spam. The more people who report an email as spam, the better it is at identifying the junk once it hits your box. In the week that I’ve been using SpamNet, I’ve only had to report 28 pieces of spam out of 1,142 emails caught. Not a single false positive. It’s very well reviewed at PC sites, and for good reason.
