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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Spam doesn’t pay

By james | May 31st, 2007

The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Alan Soloway, described as one of the World’s most prolific spammers, has been arrested. Soloway was arrested Wednesday on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. Prosecutors say Soloway has sent millions of junk e-mails since 2003 and continued even after [...]

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Woot Off

By james | May 31st, 2007

Woot.com, the site that sells one deeply discounted item per day, is having a Woot-Off today. A Woot-Off is when they sell one item until it sells out and then immediately post a new item. This can continue for a couple of days. This site is strangely compelling. I haven’t ever bought anything but I [...]

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ScribeFire makes it easier to blog?

By james | May 31st, 2007

I just added ScribeFire (formally Performancing) as a Firefox extension. It’s supposed to make it easier to blog more often. We’ll see if it works. The setup was fairly easy, changing my blogging frequency may be more difficult. ScribeFire extension

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