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Outlook Makes It Impossible to Report Phishing Scams to PayPal and Ebay
If you are like me, you get a couple phishing scams every week. Where most folks just delete them, I like to report them to the company they are trying to impersonate. Microsoft has this page dedicated to helping individuals determine phishing scams,...
Weblogging Article in Discover Magazine
I bought the November 2003 issue of Discover magazine (I love the Vital Signs column ) and while flipping thru the magazine I came across an article on Weblogs: Emerging Techology - How the Web Edits News . It prettty much focuses on concept of the “Daily...
Posted: Oct 15 2003, 10:05 PM by DonXML
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Sobering Thought Of the Day
Dr. (colonel) Richard Colin Campbell Ames in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert Heinlein: ...whatever you've done, whatever you've been, is all, totally, one hundred percent, your own fault. All. Once you come to terms with this, your next step...
JCL
During drinks and hanging out with the other .Net bloggers in NYC , the strangest of topics came up, JCL. Anyone under 30 probably has no idea what JCL is/was (not my quote), but it stands for Job Control Language, and it is used on IBM Mainframes to...
Posted: Jul 30 2003, 01:20 PM by DonXML | with 10 comment(s)
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NYC .Net Blogger Meeting Tomorrow
Just a reminder, if you live in the NYC area, we are all getting together at the NYC.Net User Group Meeting @VSLive . Tim , Rob , Samer and I will all be there, and will be going out for dinner afterwards, and everyone is invited to hang out as long as...
Posted: Jul 28 2003, 09:46 AM by DonXML | with 2 comment(s)
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RSS for Charity
XMLDevCon was great, but one of the unexpected highlights of the conference was Rory Blyth’s blog entries , and his skewed perception of life. Rory has really out done himself with his latest idea, RSS for Charity . What it is? A very unique use for Amazon...
Posted: Jul 24 2003, 04:07 PM by DonXML
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Blogshare Listed
Jeff Julian let me know that this blog has been listed on Blogshares. Seems as though I need to post the following on my page to claim it. DonXML
Posted: Jul 21 2003, 03:35 PM by DonXML
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Springsteen Tonight at Giants Stadium
My punk and metal friends will cringe reading this, but I’ll be at the Springsteen show tonight at Giants Stadium (first of 3 shows for me). It’s not so much the music, as it is the opportunity to tailgate with my friends (since elementary school) and...
Posted: Jul 18 2003, 12:51 PM by DonXML
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Scoble and Today’s Dilbert
I’m beginning to think that Scott Adams has been reading Scoble’s Blog lately. Check out today’s (July 17, 2003) Dilbert . I wouldn’t be surprised if the recent Seattle Post Intelligencer article on corporate blogging (with quotes from Scoble) had something...
Missing the SVG Open
Unfortunately, I had to fly back home early from the West Coast to attend to a family matter. This meant I had to cancel my 2 presentations on SharpVectors at the SVG Open. Now I consider SharpVectors to be one of my most important projects, and only...
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