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SPAM Fighter Statistics

~SP — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:21:49 +0000

SPAM Fighter Statistics for November 2010 Thank you Postini for watching paytonplace.us (my domain) 2,227 messages blocked (46%), 996 in quarantine (20%), effective catch rate of 95.7%. Thank you Akismet for watching stephen.paytonplace.us (my blog) 2,646 spam attacks caught, 14 legitimate comments, overall accuracy rate of 99.9%.

WiFi in the Sky

~SP — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:46:00 +0000

Connecting to the internet while on an airplane is something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time. Although Virgin America Airlines has provided this service since they began flying in the United States, I don’t live near any of the cities to which they fly! But today, after a “parked on the runway for …

It Finally Happened!

~SP — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:19:02 +0000

For the very first time in dozens of prior transactions, the BestBuy In-Store Pickup promise finally came true. It was a painless and relatively fast experience after walking into the store and waiting in line for approximately five minutes. Hooray!!! Ordering merchandise online at BestBuy.Com is always a piece of cake. I verified my desired …

UnChrome Anonymizes Your Installation

~SP — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Windows only: Free application UnChrome bolsters your browsing anonymity by removing the unique ID from Google Chrome that Google associates with your Chrome installation.

UnChrome isn't the first app to do this; we highlighted another program called Chrome Privacy Guard in our power user's guide to Google Chrome. But for the many who installed Chrome for the first time after Chrome officially left beta last week, it's worthwhile to highlight this kind of tool once more. UnChrome is a free download, Windows only.

Start Google Chrome in Incognito Mode

~SP — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:30:00 +0000

Programmer Michael T. Bee offers up a small, desktop-friendly JavaScript file that starts Google's Chrome browser in Incognito Mode for those privacy-please browsing sessions. Actually, the script, which you can paste into Notepad or another editor and save as a .js file, starts Chrome, opens a no-cookie, no-tracks-left Incognito window, then kills the first window. If your system can't launch Chrome by running chrome.exe in Windows' "Run" dialog, you might have to tweak the sixth line of the script a bit. Otherwise, it's a handy trick for, as the Hacks Blog puts it, "birthday shopping."

40 Secrets About Me

~SP — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:29:04 +0000

This list was originally a MySpace bulletin; expanded into a Blog Post by my buddy, Stoic Sideman. Considering the fact I avoid MySpace like the plague, I opted to shamelessly copy the list, adapt it with my own information, and post it here instead. You may do the same provided you add your own …

URL versus URI

~SP — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:30:14 +0000

Most folks who explore the World Wide Web with a browser application like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox are familiar with the URL acronym. URL stands for “Uniform Resource Locator” according to the World Wide Web (W3) consortium. Pronunciation of URL should always be with each letter emphasized (y?-?r-el) instead the fairly common alternative, …

Battling Spam?

~SP — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:02:14 +0000

I recently scripted a rather long-winded message to one of my sisters about methods to combat spam and thought it would be helpful reading. Her initial question was: I’ve been getting 3-5 messages daily from first name only senders trying to get me to download some new program. The following is cut and pasted from …

You CAN take it with you?

~SP — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:11:15 +0000

For much of my life I’ve listened to many discussions about the various merits or fallacies of acquiring material goods. Depending on your perspective, such acquisition is either a good thing or a bad thing. But regardless of your judgment call on such matters, there’s no tellin’ how many times I’ve heard the phrase, “You …

Opening Pandora’s Box

~SP — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:06:11 +0000

As a component of the Music Genome Project, Pandora.Com is an excellent site to use in the search for new music to add to your collection. By entering an artist or song name, Pandora will construct a streaming playlist of songs with similar genres and tempos. Coupled with a high-speed internet connection and a running …

Visual Simulations @ Digg Labs

~SP — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:58:40 +0000

Digg.Com is an amazing repository of information and commentary. It is by far my favorite social networking and news site on the internet today. I listen to the Diggnation Podcast regularly because I get a real kick out of hearing to the interaction between Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. They provide a summary of the …

AjaxWp – An enhancement for WordPress blogs

~SP — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:46:26 +0000

This looks interesting . . . Perhaps later today I can experiment with this inclusion to this Blog? Well see! It depends on how quickly I can get my work done on the mounting needs for “The Man.” What is AjaxWp? AjaxWp is a lightweight JavaScript enhancement that adds AJAX functionality to WordPress blogs speeding …