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Keep Calm and Solve the Problem

I'm currently serving as president of my building's condo association. It's not a huge building, just over a couple dozen units, but it's big enough that things can sometimes go sideways. Of late, I've been dealing with a situation that includes a possible squatter, legal complications, harassment, and threats. It's a mess. The police have been here. Lawyers are invol…
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Spam Resource in the form of a word cloud

I love word clouds! They're lots of fun. They're a great way to visualize writing in a way that highlights which words and concepts were likely most important to the authors. Or, at least, the things that were most talked about. So, what if we took all the text from Spa…

MAGY webmail screenshots from 2024

Someday, we'll look back and ask, does anybody have any screen captures of what the user interfaces of the main webmail providers looked like, back in 2024? If that's you, and you're looking back to 2024, and you've found this blog post, then you're in luck!…

Mail merge?

Do you know what a mail merge variable is? I used the term the other day in an email to a coworker and they were confused. An email list attribute? A personalization string? What do you call those? What does your email platform call those? You know, the bit where you put in DEA…

Surprise! Internet filled with Junk

Websense reports that in the latter half of 2009: 13.7 percent of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo Buzz & Google Trends) lead to malware, 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious, 35 per…