"I love the Economist. I really do. But I've discovered that anytime someone uses the Economist in a conversation, they're basically saying 'I'm cooler than you.' "
Damn. He's right!
Friday, June 30, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
I'm getting sick of subpoenas
I run a site called Mailinator. Its pretty well-known nowadays as a site that provides disposable email. Its simple - some site wants your email to send you a "confirmation email" - of course, they really want it so they can spam you later. Now, you could just goto yahoo or hotmail or something and make a "junk12523@yahoo.com" email address and use that. But signing up was a pain - and took awhile.
Instead you can just use fred123@mailinator.com - in fact, you can use ANYTHING before the @ sign. See, accounts at mailinator are created when email arrives for them. Pick anything you want - fritz@mailinator.com or superguy@mailinator.com or whatever@mailinator.com.
No password - just goto www.mailinator.com and type in your userid (or anyone elses) to see your email.
This site is very popular but it also seems like some undesireable types use it for evil purposes. Now mind you - Mailinator gives you NO more anonymity or abilites than say, yahoo mail does. It just forgoes the need to "sign up" - (where of course, you could put in fake information anyway).
Through mailinator's life (about 3 years) I have been contacted by LAPD, FBI, and Scotland yard over someone's use of mailinator. Now mind you - mailinator is a free service. I basically get nothing from it. So dealing with this kind of junk is pretty annoying. I did have some logs in process that were critical for debugging when the software was new but after receiving my second "log subpoena" this week (first was a year ago or so) - I'm stopping all logging. I don't need them - and will make all this subpoena business a bit easier.
Today I get to sit on the phone with some lawyers who won't get that mailinator takes NO personal information whatsoever from its users (don't all email services?). What fun.
Instead you can just use fred123@mailinator.com - in fact, you can use ANYTHING before the @ sign. See, accounts at mailinator are created when email arrives for them. Pick anything you want - fritz@mailinator.com or superguy@mailinator.com or whatever@mailinator.com.
No password - just goto www.mailinator.com and type in your userid (or anyone elses) to see your email.
This site is very popular but it also seems like some undesireable types use it for evil purposes. Now mind you - Mailinator gives you NO more anonymity or abilites than say, yahoo mail does. It just forgoes the need to "sign up" - (where of course, you could put in fake information anyway).
Through mailinator's life (about 3 years) I have been contacted by LAPD, FBI, and Scotland yard over someone's use of mailinator. Now mind you - mailinator is a free service. I basically get nothing from it. So dealing with this kind of junk is pretty annoying. I did have some logs in process that were critical for debugging when the software was new but after receiving my second "log subpoena" this week (first was a year ago or so) - I'm stopping all logging. I don't need them - and will make all this subpoena business a bit easier.
Today I get to sit on the phone with some lawyers who won't get that mailinator takes NO personal information whatsoever from its users (don't all email services?). What fun.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
How do you know an MV driver is looking in his side-view mirrors?
Cuz he's flapping his arms like a chicken. The mirrors are placed in such a way that you can only see your elbows. In order to see something behind you, you have to lower your arms momentarily. I never realized I did this so much until I followed Steve when we switched bikes.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Saturday, June 03, 2006
Funniest Thing Lately (FTL) -
Zombie Protestors:
"What do we WANT?!"
"Brains!"
"And when do we want IT?!!"
"Brains!"
"What do we WANT?!"
"Brains!"
"And when do we want IT?!!"
"Brains!"
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