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Until today I have been reviewing my gmail spam folder each day or so, and marking all new spam as read when I've reviewed it. Most of the time that works ok, but I've noticed that there are times when I get spam with a presumably deliberately wrong date - maybe a few years ago. That's quite clever of them really, in a way, because ...

As I find them.. Gmail: I've seen 20-30 good emails caught in spam, so check it often while you train it. Since I don't want to check the same message twice, I mark the spam as read whenever I check it. Then, to check just the unread spam you can search for in:spam is:unread. Here's a list of other neat search terms. Google ...

This experiment is fascinating. I now have CA's version of CallingID toolbar in FF/IE and it is really interesting to watch. The big names are obviously all green, but some very well known sites are yellow. Most small sites are yellow, but some are red. Red causes all sorts of traffic to leave immediately I'd imagine. Or not even go there ...

Last night my CA Security Suite did its automatic renewal of my annual license. I still think $50 for 3 licenses is very good value for continuous a/v, but now there is another very interesting feature: CA Web Inspector, a.k.a. CallingID It's a toolbar that installs into Firefox and IE, and warns you about every link you are about to click ...

Plip blogged this morning about an old - very old - site of mine; www.asprss.com Created back in the heady days of 2001 (which seems like a differrent era to me, like remembering "before the war") the site was aimed at a small group of people that Steve Smith and I all knew personally that wrote articles about ASP (now "Classic ...

When I asked if I should install Vista and/or Office 2007, I really didn't know what to expect. Geeks can be funny, and although wanting to install all the latest doo-dads is common I've heard a lot of whinging about Vista. In the end, I just installed Office 2007, and will pass on Vista until I repave. It's just too much of a risk, ...

..and I'm now paying for it big time. I'm not the only one either - when I bought shawthing.com and started using that as my email address I decided to be smart and use the "nobody" (catch-all) address rather than setup lots of different accounts. And then I used pretend email addresses that matched the site I was signing up ...