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Obama Takes on "Spam"

CANned SPAM

A recent report claimed 97% of all emails transmitted during 2008 contained spam or other dangerous content. That is considered to be an improvement!

Editor's Lament: Why proofreed?

Reference Books

We welcome constructive critiques about our articles and this website. While we realize that perfection is impossible (especially in our case) and editing is a thankless job – we feel proofreeding must still be done to the very best of our abiliteees. Check out the video!

It's time to get serious about blogging

There are good reasons why I’ve not been posting in recent months. But because the reasons are personal and too numerous to outline, we’ll just acknowledge my failures to keep up-to-date and go forward.  With the Olympics winding down and the political conventions approaching, I think it’s really the right time to really speak out [...]

Damned Spammers Never Give Up

I’m sure that other blog writers go through this same thing almost everyday, deleting the almost constant flow of “spam” or spammy comments. Back on May 23rd I posted an article about Dateline MSNBC’s program on identity theft.  I’ve received almost daily comments on this article that are nothing but pure gobbledegook spam and make no [...]

Online – Finally

This site is finally up and running after a couple of years of trying to get it right.  I’m not saying that it is finished or even ready for publication, but it is finally online. Many of my friends have begged me to organize and publish my comments.  Let’s face it – I’m a “news [...]