If you know your meta tags or are involved in SEO you probably remember the debacle around the MS Smart Tags. The tags were another "brilliant" idea from Gates & Co to "improve" the user experience through the auto-insertion of links/content into websites when view using IE. Fortunately MS offered an "opt out" clause via a meta tag and eventually shelved the idea (more or … [Read more...] about Google scumware?
Spam Assassin Custom rules generation
Martin pointed me at a rather handy set of scripts for generating the regex for spam assassin custom rules: CMOScript I haven't had any success with the custom rule I was trying to generate, but that's more likely due to me than the scripts :) … [Read more...] about Spam Assassin Custom rules generation
Google Desktop
I grabbed a copy of it this evening just to see if it was any good. So far I am impressed. It seems to be able to find emails a lot faster than Outlook, which isn't much of a surprise. The only thing I can't see anyway of choosing which elements to search through: Maybe I'm missing an option, but if I want to find an email quickly and even respond to it the integration seems … [Read more...] about Google Desktop
Irish Government to Outsource speed traps
According to an article in yesterday's Sunday Tribune the Dept. of Justice is hoping to outsource speed traps to a private company. Considering the problems that already exist with the points system how can outsourcing improve matters for the public? … [Read more...] about Irish Government to Outsource speed traps
Adsense – invite a friend
I just noticed the "invite a friend" option in my adsense account this morning. The only thing is that there is no incentive for me to do it, which is a pity. Most other programs offer some kind of incentive, be it a onetime commission or a recurring payment. Why doesn't Google? … [Read more...] about Adsense – invite a friend