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Engineering
Applied science. Some hardware may be involved. Asserting my alpha-geekhood; propeller-heads only need apply. This topic will not get me laid.
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When I posted about referral spam a few days ago, I neglected to mention what had brought the topic to mind.
Over the past few weeks, I've seen an increasing number of referrals in my blog-log that look like these:
http://generic-viagra.online-deals-4u.info/ Read More
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There's a new kind of spam out there aimed specifically at blog operators. It's called referral spam, and it may be one of the better things to happen to blogging recently.
You've seen the blogroll. Aunt Mabel's tatting blog—six hits daily, guaranteed—has Read More
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Bad news for Conservative English Major:
The gender-indeterminate cashier in the coffee shop in my office building, as it turns out, reads fluent Japanese and has a Master's degree in comparative literature.
And people think I just became an engineer Read More
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Advertising for the online world has advanced light-years since sock-puppet dot-coms spent millions of venture dollars for 30-second spots in the 2000 Superbowl. Sophisticated pay-per-click services—notably Google's AdWords program—deliver Read More
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It's been a busy day.
There's a lot of material out there about “click fraud.” For the uninitiated, that's stealing from a pay-per-click (PPC) ad engine by clicking on your own ads. Strangely, you don't read much about how thieves can use Read More
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An article in this month's IEEE Spectrum (entitled "Energy Tangle in China," but not yet available online) underscores the growing energy shortage in the world's second-largest consumer of electric power.
Two dozen of China's 31 administrative units Read More
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I love Microsoft Office products!
Does that brand me as a Republican drone? I'm not. But the plain fact of the matter is that, no matter what else I try, Office's combination of features and stability keep drawing me back into the fold. It also doesn't Read More
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As a review, this is hardly fair.
In my capacity as VP of Operations at e-Insure Services, Inc., I just launched the new & improved e-Insure Journal. If it looks a little familar, well, why reinvent the wheel? It uses the .Text blog engine, Read More
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I found an interesting bug this morning in my .Text 0.95 upgrade. This was a little complicated by the fact that I installed the upgrade over a month ago. Here's what happened:
e-Insure has an on-line journal, appropriately named the e-Insure Journal. Read More
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The technology described in this white paper formed the basis of a proposal for SBIR Phase I funding, under Navy Topic N03-152, in January 2003. The Navy denied funding; to date, the critical capabilities described in this paper remain out of reach to Read More
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I've upgraded the tdhLuxLight Skin to include a set of styles that make it easy to include Amazon Associates links at the bottom of a post or article. See the bottom of Re-Animator, Revisited for an example.
There are also a few other minor stylistic Read More
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A couple of weeks ago, when I upgraded to the new version of .Text and a new skin, I outlined a few issues and promised to correct them and post the results.
Well, here they are. In fact, my alterations are significant enough that I feel justified in Read More
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Welcome to The (new & improved) Dead Hand!
If this is your first visit to the site, you really can't appreciate what an improvement its new incarnation is over that of 24 hours ago. Beside the purely cosmetic enhancements—significant, I assure Read More
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Table of Contents
IntroductionAchieving Relevance Setting the Stage Making It WorkAchieving Value Collective Intelligence Linking UpConclusionRelevant Links
Introduction
Most Internet users count their first Web search as a seminal experience. Read More
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Who knew blogging was such hard work?
In the past 10 hours, I've built my very own little empire-in-a-teapot, and now I'm bushed. Many thanks, though, to Scott Watermasysk and the rest of the .Text team. Without their remarkable product, I never would Read More
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