SilverMarc Quasi-Periodical Send-Sheets
You have so little time to read… I have so little time to write!
Hello Chumby
Hello Chumby. New watches come out from time to time, cars are updated yearly as "this year's models" are unveiled; new flavors of Ben & Jerry Ice Cream are always being developed. These are all just variations of products that already exist. But every so often a...
Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
What are you doing? I'm wondering whether it's at all possible to make a statement that's not more than 140 characters in length that says something pertinent. (Okay, that's 139.) What are you doing? Demonstrating how people worldwide have found that posting "tweets"...
This Hoax is Serious!!!
This is serious!!! I would do it for you. Actually the subject of the above email when it arrived in my email box was "Fwd: FW: FW: FW: : Fwd: This is serious!!! I would do it for you.(corrected)" Those extra forwards told me that somebody who knows me thought this...
Free Software For Sale!
Free Software For Sale You can get more than you pay for! A long, long time ago, when the world was young, people loved getting free software for their computers. This usually meant that they were getting it from someone else who bought it, or more likely, from...
Password Please
Password Please Better Safe Than Sorry... PC Magazine reports that these are the 10 most used passwords, ranked in order: password 123456 qwerty abc123 letmein monkey myspace1 password1 blink182 (your first name) I'd bet yours isn't on this list, but you might use a...
You Are Your Data
You Are Your Data When it goes, you go... What would happen if you forgot your printout of the presentation, or the notes you planned to use for an important meeting? You'd call the office to have someone email or messenger it to you. What if you realized you left...
The -Final- Word on Spam
The Final Word on Spam And that word is... Spam is so pervasive that this is my 3rd article about some aspect of it. And it should be my last article about spam because I've stopped mine. And you can stop yours. Here's how, in one word: Gmail. Sign up for a free Gmail...
Spam-Proof Email Addresses
Spam-Proof Email Addresses Outwit the Spam Harvester Robots Automated programs scour the web looking for email addresses to "harvest" for email lists that eventually will be used to send the unsolicited emails we all know as spam. It's simple for one of these programs...