To anticipate and prevent
Yesterday, Google rolled out a new feature in Gmail which warns you when it isn’t sure who the email was sent by. This warning isn’t due to some confusion on the server side, this issue is because Google wants to force more people to use SPF records and DKIM signatures. Both of these are good…
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Yesterday, I talked about some of the work I did in the weekend server overhaul. One of those tasks I wanted to talk about a little more was the addition of native IPv6 because I feel very strongly that IPv6 is important, not just to this blog, but to the future of the internet. I’m…
I just got a package from Woot.com. I didn’t even think about it as I opened it; it had my name on it, so I opened it, simple as that. Inside was a Best Buy Gift Card. “Huh,” I thought to myself, “I don’t recall ordering one of these.” The message (which was in nice…
Last month, I bought a Voltron Bundle from RightStuf.com. It came with Lion Force (Sets 1-5), Vehicle Force (Sets 6-8), as well as a T-Shirt (Large), all for $69.99 (which meant it qualified for free shipping). I wasn’t terribly excited about Vehicle Force, as I had no memory of it, but I figured I’d give…
Recently, I received an (unsolicited) email from ING Direct advertising “[my] Orange Loan Account Invitation”. As someone who has a credit card slash has ever applied for a credit card, I am used to getting unsolicited offers. With traditional Brick & Mortar based banks/credit cards I expect to receive an offer for some new “service”…
Hopefully, as users of the internet, you are aware of NASA finding a new lifeform in Mono Lake, that uses Arsenic instead of Phosphorous as one of its building blocks. This is exciting news for a variety of reasons. I’ll leave it to y’all to decide how exciting.