Scams on the Internet never cease to amaze me. Some of them are sophisticated, some subtle, and some are just downright absurd.
I’d recently discovered a mailbox that I had left unattended for several years. It had no anti-spam tool monitoring it, so it was mostly filled with really obvious spam messages and phishing attempts [...]
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I seem to have picked up a much larger share of Australian readers over the last few days, which is just fine by me – I love Australia. In fact, my cat’s name is Sydney, named after the city of course. Here she is with kitten cuteness overdrive mode engaged.
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Telling everyone what most people who work regularly with computers already know, a study performed by the University of Utah recently found that computer users with two monitors are routinely more productive than those with one.
In an article featured in the New York Times:
[Researchers] found that people who used two 20-inch monitors were 44 [...]
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An interesting piece from CNET News Australia: a study from the Queensland University of Technology’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation shows that open office floor plans, the ones where there’s no cube walls around workstations, lead to higher stress, and in turn can lead to higher frequency of illness for employees.
The high level [...]
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People that know me well enough can attest to my frequent and perhaps frustrating habit of not listening to voicemail. My outgoing message usually says something along the lines of “please note, I do not listen to my voicemail, but here are the best ways to contact me…”
Please allow me to explain. I hate [...]
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According to a US federal government complaint filed last week Friday, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui used his position at Fry’s Electronics to set up kick-back deals with electronics vendors. The deals had Fry’s paying over 30% or more for equipment, including flash drives and network routers, with kick-back money going into a shell company owned [...]