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Hotmail will start fighting spam — starting with legitimate mail

Microsoft pushes spam-filtering technology
If your e-mail does not have a Sender ID, Microsoft wants to junk your message.
This is nice. Starting this November, Microsoft will start marking legitimate mail as spam if the sender refuses to adopt their Sender ID technology. I don’t know whether my mails are tagged with the right information and frankly […]

Seagate to the rescue in an Orwellesque world…

This morning I read the newspaper. I read about the dutch police that slowly compromises our privacy. Sure, crime is a problem, but among the things I read were about face recognition (i.e. having yourself photographed in your car everytime you pass certain checkpoints), license plate recognition… keeping track of someone’s internet activities, mobile phone […]

Acronym mania in blogsphere…

I like playing with WP and posting stuff here. About my new NAD C320BEE amp and my doubts whether to try a pair of B&W DM 602 S3 at home to see of they’re any good. I like thinking about (X)HTML, CSS, possible improvemens for CMSes and a better way of implementing CVS or SVN […]

Waarom tweedehandssites soms zo triest vermakelijk zijn

Iedereen die van handelen houdt zal marktplaats.nl wel kennen. Dat die site zelf vreselijk brak is weet iedereen wel, maar het niveau van de advertenties is soms ook echt tenenkrommend. Vooral als de verkopers trachten hun waar aantrekkelijk te presenteren.

Proprietary browser plugins suck.

Sometimes my mood is… not good. What else does someone need to get utmost irritated then? Well… sites that rely on proprietary plugins just to be displayed properly surely get on my nerves sometime…