Problems, Bugs, & Annoyances

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Toothless Bluetooth
April 30, 2005
We love Bluetooth ... mostly. For a technology with so much commercial "weight" behind it you'd think it would be painless and streamlined to use. No such luck. This was proved when Tony came over yesterday and we tried to...

Microsoft code taking the blame
April 14, 2005
Here's an interesting quote from an item in Raymond Chen's blog (Raymond is a Microsoft QA veteran): "A bunch of us were going through some Windows crashes that people sent in by clicking the "Send Error Report" button in the...

Forget Spy vs. Spy, try Spammer vs. Anti-Spammer
March 17, 2005
Ars Technica has an item, "Spammer sues anti-spammer for $4 million", that will bring the blood of spam haters everywhere to boiling point. The story not only shows the extent to which CAN SPAM is a useless pile of dingo's...

Reserving the right to send non-commercial communications
March 16, 2005
The LA Times just sent us a message from their sponsors that concludes with: You are receiving this e-mail because you are a registered user of latimes.com or calendarlive.com. As a registered user, you may occasionally receive e-mail announcements from...

Pathetic spam
March 11, 2005
Here's the worst spam we've ever seen (forwarded by Jim Sterne) ... Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:29:19 -0800 (PST)From: gkfgod@colima.comTo: undisclosed-recipients: ;X-pstn-levels: (S:19.55324/99.88402 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0232 C:98.7678 )X-pstn-settings: 3 (1.0000:1.0000) s gt3 gt2 gt1 r p m c X-pstn-addresses:...