Probably just me. But has it seemed that comment/trackback spam, forum advertising, and (maybe even) junk e-mail has surged a bit recently? The other day I got something like 37 new e-mails, of which about 30 were spam. Usually I get just over half that.
Since I’m enjoying my time spent on essays on Christianity and Islam (how clichéd), perhaps you would like information on how to convert to Islam? Difficulty Level: Average; Time Required: Variable.
Oh, goodbye, Carly. You could make that into a song. It’s big news (Google even has it listed as number one “In the News”), Carly Fiorina is out at HP. Here’s to hoping this will in some way mean good things for the next round of iPAQs. Stockholders seem pleased.
Looks cool. It’s beta, of course. Nice, clean Googlesque interface; interactive maps let you click and center and whatnot, but without loading a new page with every click; search, while somewhat buggy(?) knows to center on what you’re looking at on the map; gives you address/phone number/directions/website(!). Oh, and it makes it easy to link to a given map too. If you click on Local Search it even says “Where e.g., Poughkeepsie, NY,” but that could just be hardcoded in. Now if only it did satellite coverage too….
Related to the GoDaddy Super Bowl thing, you can track how the whole fiasco is affecting GoDaddy’s search results on Google and MSN Search. At least it saved them $2.4 million. Though opinion reports vary, some say it was the best ad, and others say it was worst.
Update: Somewhat unrelated, but you might as well check out how Google News is covering the spot.
You can now pay more for an unlocked Treo 650 and continue not using a Samsung i550 with Sprint.
Not that I have much against Palm (my m500 lasted forever, almost), but is it me or do they seem to be trying to rid themselves of the pesky PDA business?
What Happened to Go Daddy’s second Super Bowl Ad Spot? Sounds interesting, I missed the first airing and wondered why it didn’t show up the second time.
And don’t ask why I’m posting at 5:04 on a Monday.
AdJab is posting summaries, screen captures, and reviews of Super Bowl commercials as they air. I dunno, I thought the one about the robbery was somewhat funny. Though I don’t know how these ads qualify as effective if you can’t remember who put it out.
Update: The MasterCard one was pretty good too.
It’s a pain to deal with.
I tried setting up Gallery on my personal blog, thinking that it would do a much better job of keeping my photos straight than whatever basic script I had written up/stolen and mercilessly hacked from some tutorial site.
For the record, I find Gallery to be one of the most clumsily set up and evidently bloated scripts, ever. The installation was comprised of something like 15 different tabs, each of which one had to review in the case that it had some required setting or something that was simply incorrectly detected. I get through it, though, and come upon the ugly template I apparently selected.
No matter, I can change it, just as soon as I log in.
But I can’t log in. It doesn’t like my admin password, and it tells me the admin user doesn’t exist when I tell it to e-mail me my password.
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