There were a lot of things happening 40 years ago this week. You all know about the moon landing – a great achievement for all of mankind, and a lot has been said about it. I find it irritating that people push to go to Mars next, considering that we haven’t even explored [...]
Entries from July 2009
Two events from 40 years ago
July 21st, 2009 ·
Tags: Inspirations
MORE spam from Cambridge University Press
July 10th, 2009 ·
I got another spam from Cambridge University Press today. Apparently this is their new strategy for success as a tree-murdering paper publisher.
They provide an opt-out link at the bottom: http://listserv.cup.org/t/49324/239073/2681/0/ which obviously contains campaign information in it, but apparently they were too incompetent to encode my email address in there because the form asks [...]
Tags: Economics · Rants · The internet
Spam from Cambridge University Press
July 9th, 2009 ·
Today I received spam from Cambridge University Press, using an email address that I used to register for the ACM Electronic Commerce Conference in 2006. It appears that even supposedly reputable organizations cannot resist the temptation to send spam.
Tags: Economics · Rants · Research
You may have already won
July 2nd, 2009 ·
Everyone probably gets these emails telling you that you have a long lost uncle who was an official in Africa who left you $21 million, and if you’d just send $1,000 to them then they will wire you the money. They are called 419 scams. About once a year I also get an [...]
Tags: Economics · Rants · The internet · security