Archive for January, 2005

SwordSearcher 4.6 Released

Monday, January 31st, 2005

I’m finally done preparing a new version of SwordSearcher Bible Software — version 4.6. The “official” release date is tomorrow (Feb 1, 2005), but I managed to get everything up today. Check out the revision history.
4.6 took me a lot longer to finalize than I originally expected, but it’s done and shipping! There are three [...]

Hillary Clinton Gulping for Air; Jack O’Neil; and Commander Sheridan

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

From the archives of the totally useless…
While looking through my documents folder on my hard drive, trying to find something important, I came across this little piece I started writing in August of 2003:
Colonel O’Neil didn’t know what to do so he sat there dumbfounded.
“The Storm Troopers will find us her very soon,” Data advised. [...]

Spammers lose; Earthlink Wins

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

EarthLink Claims Victory in Spam Case: “The group used stolen or forged credit cards and engaged in identity theft to set up EarthLink accounts that were then used to send spam…”
What I don’t get is how can someone make money spamming people while hiding their identity. Don’t you need people to be able to, like, [...]

Text Ads and Click Fraud: A cost of doing business?

Monday, January 17th, 2005

The explosion of content-relevant text ads on websites (even I use them on this site) has been very profitable for advertisers, content providers, and ad networks such as Overture and Google AdWords. But there is now a serious problem with “fraudulent clicking,” which amounts to stealing money from the advertiser. And unfortunately, there isn’t much [...]

Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results

Thursday, January 6th, 2005

Democrats to Force Debate on Ohio Results: “Bush won an Ohio recount by more than 118,000 votes, and won nationally by more than 3 million.” But for some, that’s not enough. No matter what side you come down on the presidential election, isn’t it over?