Monthly Archives: June 2002

Earthlink Allows Tech Support to Access Users' Passwords

As this Wired story reveals, Earthlink allows tech support representatives to see users’ passwords. This is just wrong, not to mention unprofessional, and begging for various nasty kinds of law suits, or worse. Sure, users forgetting their passwords is one … Continue reading

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Wanker Management: The IT Plague

In response to a comment by John Udell What if being non-communicative weren’t an option?, itself part of an extended conversation spurred by a Fortune article on Esther Dyson about institutional information sharing, or “knowledge management” if you want to … Continue reading

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Reasons to Use Mozilla

Aside from the fact that Mozilla is free, fast, limber, and polite, I really like the Tab features. You can open a Tab window using Command-T on a Mac (for you poor Windows users, remember to use Control instead) then … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer 1.5.3 for Mac OS X

Yes, it’s out, and yes I’ve downloaded it from Version Tracker (look to the left for the link) and installed it, which has served to remind me why I like Mozilla so much better. Once I installed I.E. I discovered … Continue reading

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On the Definition and History of the Lemma Web Log

First, I stumbled across this nifty post by John S. Jacobs Anderson, wherein he declares what is and is not, a web log. Second, thanks to Blog Roots, I learned that the Oxford English Dictionary has drafted an entry for … Continue reading

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