From the monthly archives:

July 2006

Censorship in Asia

24 July 2006

It’s nothing new.
China has a history of blocking scads of websites, and has even gone so far as to enlist Google’s help.
The Maldives does it, too. My sister and her family have lived there for two Canadian winters thus far and coming back [...]

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The AW Chain, start to finish

22 July 2006

Chain 1 (with permalinks)
Towerkel
TemlynWriting
Blue Texas
Forbidden Snowflake
Sury
XThe NavigatorX
Peggy
MadScientistMatt
Jen.nifer
KellyC
Peregrinas
chaostitan
Wendelynn
Chain 2 (with permalinks)
Loving Twilight
I Might Lose My Mind
At Home, Writing
Fireflies in the Cloud
The Road Less Traveled
Mad Scientist Matt’s Lair
Jennifer Sando
Youth, our greatest natural resource – aka Pass the Torch
Peregrinas
Flying Shoes
Kappa no He
Southern Expressions
Everything Indian
Chain 3 (with permalinks)
Forbidden Snowflake
Fireflies in the Cloud
Mad Scientist Matt’s Lair
Youth – Our Greatest Natural [...]

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Book in a Minute

18 July 2006

There’s a lovely website – I’m on a "lovely" kick right now :p – that has some pretty funny summaries of books.
Like the collected work of Marion Zimmer Bradley:
Heroine
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My lap is hot!

17 July 2006

The AW chain is back with round three, and I’m following Jennifer Sando.
In Jennifer’s blog, she talked about, among other things, the low-level hum from computers at her house, a theme carried on from the blogger before her in the chain.
We have the [...]

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The problem with forwarded emails

17 July 2006

You know those forwards your aunt Helen or best friend Rob sends you? Sometimes they’re sweet and sappy with cute and cuddly kittens. Other times they’re poems that are supposed to evoke a strong emotional reaction. Sometimes it’s religious or political.
One thing all those emails have in [...]

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Where do spammers get your email addy anyway?

16 July 2006

The general assumption seems to start with you, the generic, nonspecific you, signing up for a newsletter on a website somewhere, or joining an online forum or email group. After all, that’s where spammers get all their email addies. Isn’t it?

Forums and Websites

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On spam, and no, I’m not talking about that canned boiled pig product

15 July 2006

First question, which really has nothing to do with possible solutions, is how you quantify a lot? Do you whine over 10 or 20? A hundred? A thousand? Just a curiosity on my part, so please, comment and let me know…
Personally, I get over a hundred a [...]

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A rose by any other name…

14 July 2006

I had a roommate – long, long ago in a galaxy far away – who brought home a budgy. Budgy is short for budgeriger, which, in Australian aborigine language, means "to taste good", all of which I read in the pamphlet she brought home from the pet store.
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Really really bad writing

13 July 2006

Ever heard of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest? It’s great fun.
I was first introduced to it back in 1984 or 1985 by an interesting English teacher by the name of Terry Stitt. I say he’s interesting because he was, but he was also fantastic. Of all [...]

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