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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Holding Forth On The Fourth

Friday, June 30, 2006

Back when I was a working stiff — slaving away to make someone else rich — it was always a special treat when holidays like the Fourth fell on a Thursday or Tuesday. Cuz it meant a solid four-day vacation. Ooooh, the hangovers. This year, I’ll be working a bit throughout the weekend, as I

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Thanks. And Watch Your Back.

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Just a quick note — I want to thank everyone who attempted to vote for this site during the Marketing Sherpa “Blog Of The Year” contest last week. Unfortunately, there was no write-in option — the blogs that were eligible had been chosen beforehand. It was a very small, very limited list. The fix was

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Hacker Voodoo

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

New scary sign that hackers are still smarter than the Web cops behind site security: PayPal just discovered a flaw in their system that allowed hackers to set up a “legit” URL on the PayPal servers. Result: You got an email directing you to a real PayPal URL, and every logical test you could give