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Verizon implements tough new anti-spam technology. And here I was thinking that at some point I would be having all my e-mail moved over to a Verizon account. Eh, maybe not.

Really, what’s so hard about having options for these kinds of things? Use Verizon’s e-mail service, and miss 90% of your legitimate e-mails. But, uh, there’s no spam?

Wouldn’t be surprised if the end-result was charging for whitelisting a la AOL.

John Kerry hasn’t given up in his quest for political domination.

At least someone caught it, eventually.

Its features, um… a 3 inch LCD screen, it’s like the first device to have one of those, ever.

Thanks again FOX 5 news for your informative interviews-on-the-street. I guess my PDA’s 3.7 inch LCD screen technically isn’t 3 inches.

So, I decided to get rid of Slackware on my laptop in favor of Debian, and so far it hasn’t been so great. I wanted to get rid of Slackware because I thought it was too hard to deal with (and I probably screwed up the installation to some extent, it was my first go-round) and I wanted to get some actual use out of my laptop.

Problem so far is that I can’t get Debian to want to install. First it hung on trying to set up sendmail, and then after each boot it stopped when loading boottime.kmap.gz. So it’s time for a format and a reinstallation that I don’t touch too much this time.

Update: So much for that, it froze again during installation. Why bother?

PPCT posts a link to this short but interesting article from the BBC on EULAs. I’d like to say I make an honest attempt to actually read them once in awhile, but then again I figure it doesn’t really matter since minors can’t enter into contracts anyway.

But somewhat seriously, EULAs are out of hand. It’s gotten sad when these things come to 7 printed pages or more of legalese, and in order to read the whole thing you typically need to open the program anyway. Isn’t it sort of obvious that the (commercial) software industry doesn’t really want us reading these things anyway?

Apparently so. That’s the page that shows up when you try to load the Google Toolbar page in Mozilla/Firefox, though. Bit of interesting conversation on how they got linked, just be sure to scroll down a bit.

Hey, this looks fun.

So I’m actually trying to switch to Dvorak. My progress?

rvmiller89: and here i thought a Dvorak layout was supposed to increase your typing speed

The site’s back up, we were down yesterday during a server switch. Now we’re residing on a server with a nice 1GB of RAM (my PC has a quarter that) and more free space than the old one. So get back to not commenting.

BTW, WordPress 1.5 stable was released yesterday. No official announcement yet, but I guess I’ll be upgrading my other blog soon (and this one too, but still).

Mozilla’s developing a version of its mobile Minimo browser for Windows CE. This is very, very good news, especially because putting Linux on most Pocket PCs is (currently) impossible. Could it be, a decent web browsing experience coming to a handheld near you?