20. August, 2003 - Happy Birthday to Me
- World wakes up to another virus, which seems to go through people’s address books and use random addresses for the from line of mail it sends. I’m getting a ton of bounces from the navy because (I suspect) someone at WAM!NET got infected and has my email address and a bunch of folks in the Navy (’cause of that contract they got). Blegh. [scripting]
- Cell phone companies are now charging fees fees to cover cell number switching (the number portability that’s required by November). But the fees are much larger than their actual costs. As if we didn’t expect to get screwed by the cell-phone companies, just like we do by the companies providing landline service. [boing boing]
- Fax rules facing fight as the fax-spammers are facing a law that actually has some teeth, and they don’t like it. Under the new law, if they don’t have your written permission to fax you, they’re not allowed to, and you can collect between $500 and $11000 per fax. They won on the do not call list (a similar provision was planned, but dropped), but let’s keep this victory on the fax front. With any luck, it’ll finally put an end to the fax.com asshats.
- Ticketmaster privacy policy slammed. Oh, and that applies to evite too, who happened to be owned by ticketbastard. I just got evited to something last week, and I’ve already seen the difference in the quantity of spam. Thanks to jwz for mentioning why (and having a solution in the comments)
- If you’re looking for other blogs to read, here’s a few: Shot In The Dark covers Politics and Current Events in Minnesota and Beyond.
- Jeff recommends That Ain’t Normal. It a new blog, and seems to have some potential. Just in case you didn’t already have enough things to waste your time. [WVSR]
- Dr. Frank’s What’s-it talks a lot about music, both making an album and also some theory stuff.
- Hey, if you’re interested in that other baseball team in the Twin Cities, go check out the Twins Geek.
- As for my actual plans to celebrate my birthday today, I haven’t figured them out yet. I may head down to the The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, since I’ve never been there. There’ll probably be some drinking with a few friends this evening. But I don’t have anything really special planned.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:44:41.