2007 Oct 19, 4:10FTA: 'This letter was sent to a Russian student by her French friend, who manually wrote the address that he received by e-mail. His e-mail client, unfortunately, was not set up correctly to display
Cyrillic characters, so they were substituted with diacr
encoding charset unicode language humor article 2007 Oct 15, 1:33Info on a plugin for FireFox that gives GMail S/MIME support. This is a similar idea to the last but these folks have executed the idea in a different fashion.
article browser blog cryptography crypto mail mime mozilla pgp privacy security extension firefox gmail google 2007 Oct 15, 1:31This is a howto on using encryption with web based mail clients. This article suggests a FireFox plugin. I should look into doing this in IE.
email secure webmail google gmail pgp encryption howto article 2007 Jul 14, 3:12
I've been at Microsoft three years as of last Thursday. It makes me feel old but on the bright side I've upgraded offices. I now
have an office with a window. Its actually a coincidence that I got this office at the time of my Microsoft anniversary but I like to pretend. I've had a single office for only four or five months
now so its a nice surprise that I'm moving into a single window office so soon.
Of course this move means I'll be leaving some things behind. For instance the hanging dry erase pen holder that I created out
of office supplies I will leave attached to my old white board. My new office has fancy whiteboards with trays built-in (sooo fancy) so I know the person coming into my old office will make better
use of my hanging dry erase pen holder then I would. I explained to him that the rubber bands need to be replaced every eight months or so and not to exceed the maximum weight restrictions.
Additionally, the office art masterpiece I created I will also leave behind. When Bill Gates was featured on the cover of
Diversity Inc. for his amazing
philanthropic acts many of us got copies in our mailboxes. I
collected mine and some from the recycling bins and put up five of the covers on the wall. Eventually others added to it which was my intent, but I only started this when I eventually checked my
mailbox a week or so after the magazine arrived so there weren't as many covers left with which to work. At any rate I ended up with eleven on the wall. I'll leave the interpretation of the artwork
up to the viewer.
microsoft personal office nontechnical 2007 Jun 25, 3:13I keep seeing 'Ozzie' on emails and such now due mainly to
Ray Ozzie who is now the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and his brother
Jack Ozzie. Whenever I see his name I think of
Ozzie from Chrono
Trigger. He was one third of a trio of villains, the other two being Flea and Slash. I feel like I should be thinking of the
Ozzy for
which this Ozzie was named but I really don't.
My next thought on Ozzie is
the Scottish guy who went to my high school. He'd shout
'Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie!' to which listeners were compelled to respond 'Oi! Oi! Oi!'. The wikipedia article on the chant has some thoughts on the
origins but I suppose at Microsoft it could take on entirely new meaning. I really hope I'm someday in a meeting with Ray or Jack Ozzie and have the opportunity...
ozzy personal ozzie random nontechnical 2007 Jun 11, 2:46Humorous and interesting exchange on the Unicode mailing list concerning the velocity of Unicode character additions and the ability to accomidate alien (as in e.t.) writing systems.
blog humor unicode language microsoft article alien et 2007 Jun 4, 1:41Negative captcha is described as tricking a robot to reveal itself rather than requiring humans to prove their humanity. The system uses CSS to hide an email form field.
css captcha robot spam 2007 May 29, 12:59Dawdlr is like Twitter except you use physical mail and its updated twice a year =)
humor twitter mail social 2007 May 17, 1:04I've seen several humorous kitty related stories recently and then happened upon the whole
lolcat scene. Rather than post all the links to humorous
kitty lolcat photos to delicious I figure I'll roundup the links here.
A cat in England enjoys
riding the bus and does so regularly (
associated lolcat commentary).
A cat
trees a bear (also with
lolcat
commentary).
xkcd has a
comic on the topic of lolcat commentary. xkcd also had a
non-lolcat cat related comic recently that I found
funny.
And now I'm out of commentary so I'll just... "X cat is X":
interested,
aggressive/defensive. VG related:
SF,
Zelda. Other:
cookie,
sad.
roundup comic kitty personal cat humor nontechnical 2007 Apr 12, 3:30The FTCs guide to opting out of telemarketing, spam, junk mail including pre approved credit card offers!
junk mail spam optout howto 2007 Apr 11, 4:29A conference and challenge to find the best anti-spam software.
spam microsoft research junk mail 2007 Apr 2, 1:31The IANAs list of headers for HTTP and mail.
email http iana internet reference registry rfc standard standards 2007 Mar 30, 3:28Commentary and steps to reducing junk mail.
mail article blog jeff-atwood spam junk howto 2007 Mar 30, 3:26Information on reducing phone, email, and physical spam (junk mail & telemarketers). Also has lots of info on other privacy related matters. The sites ugly but I find its easy to navigate and
find the info I want.
privacy security tools junk mail spam 2007 Mar 19, 12:23Description of infighting over minor issues.
article design humor community email management 2007 Mar 14, 7:56Awesome mohawk. That's all there is to say about that.
hair humor photo article 2007 Mar 8, 1:01Definition of Quoted-Printable an encoding used in MIME.
mime encoding quoted-printable ietf rfc reference standard 2007 Feb 12, 9:59My blog post on international mailto URIs in IE7
windows ie microsoft ie7 browser internet uri blog me mailto 2006 Dec 6, 6:18I got another blog entry on the
IE Blog! I wrote about
file URIs in
IE. Lots of fun right? Woo for file URIs! I
added the post to del.icio.us and saw that it had already been added 6 times
previous. This compared to
my previous IE Blog post which was
added to del.icio.us a total of 1 time(s) by y.t. I guess people are more interested in blog posts that have 'URI' in the title than they
are about blog posts whose title references
Dijkstra. Coming soon (or later) to the IE Blog: a post on international mailto URIs. Hooray!
blog ie7 file uri delicious 2006 Dec 5, 1:00Examples of mailto URIs including the other often forgot parameters.
mailto email web tutorial example uri
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