Tag: email
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Emails to Melbourne's trees
Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.
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Margaret Burin (ABC News)
In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of … -
GMail Tip: Use A Plus Sign To Avoid Spam
Surely everybody by now knows that you can use a plus sign in your GMail address to dodge spam and improve email filtering. Wait, some people don't? Let's fix that.
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Email Reply
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Pay To Post
Facebook is to introduce a new feature that will allow you to pay to "promote" your posts above those of your friends' other friends. Dan is reminded of Hashcash.
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HDMI Virus, or How I Became An Old Person
HDMI cables are over-marketed at the best of times. But Dan's just discovered one that goes one step further, claiming to do the fundamentally impossible. And then, like an old person, he writes an irate letter.
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Could Be A Lot Worse
At least my week's getting better towards the end. Extracts from an e-mail from my mum:
...work - complete nightmare, back-to-back meetings most days with no time to implement the outcomes and so much work looming I don't know where to start... ...XXXXX is pregnant and leaving in a month or two (not to be replaced) … -
Back In Aber
As expected, I had very little internet access over the Christmas period. And now I'm back in Aber. Mozilla reports 688 new e-mails. Joy.
Will say more when I can be arsed. I came back here from Lancashire via Merseyside and Norfolk. That's a fair journey by anyone's standards.
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Something In The Water
[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004; it was partially recovered on 21st March 2012]
People keep getting together. Kate and Leu, Tom and Liz (now with a journal!), and now: Sian and Andy. Must be something in the water. The latter pair (and the one I most recently heard … -
Timewasting
Look what I found while I was wasting time on the 'net this morning.
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Mobile Phone Dangers
I can understand the warnings that you should not drive while talking on your mobile phone, but this extract from a report by the BBC about phone usage in Japan really says it all:
"People in Japan use their mobile phones to do much more than talk... ...only this weekend, newspaper ads warned phone users to … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #51:
Spend all night playing e-mail tennis with somebody cross-campus, simply because it's 2:40am and you haven't got anything you'd rather be doing (except sleeping, but I'm not sleepy, soo...).
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #48:
Discover, by sheer coincidence, that one of your more recent aquaintances down here (Claire) went to the same high school as one of your longer-running friends up North (Faye), and that they know one another! Freaky but completely true: the … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #38:
Recieve an e-mail criticising the way you send your e-mails. It appears to be from some big-headed student, who thinks they know it all (which they can't, 'cos then they'd know that I already knew that they didn't know <sigh>, … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #36:
(1) Recieve an e-mail from your Personal Tutor, asking to see you in his office in ten minutes. He knows I check my e-mail 1440 times a day, but dragging me to this level of nerdity is ridiculous...
(2) ...make it …