• Swimming in Access

    Spent most of yesterday swimming in various Access databases, will probably spend a bunch more of today doing the same thing. Our membership database software is so difficult to use that whenever I have anything more than the simplest SQL functions I wind up pulling everything out into Access and doing the functions there and…

  • Challenge-Response

    This story is an interesting look at the anti-spam “challenge-response” technique, which is now being offered to all Earthlink customers. I think it raises good points, especially when it comes to mailing lists being inundated with challenges. Personally, if I’m on a mailing list and I get a challenge from one of the members of…

  • Google viewer

    Just saw this for the first time, the Google viewer, which shows you the pages in your result and scrolls through all of your search results so you don’t have to actually do anything but stop it when it gets to the page you want. I’m not sure what I think of it yet, but…

  • Comment trolls

    Here’s what I don’t get. Everyone gets the occasional stupid, downright offensive comment, right? Why then do some bloggers make such a big deal over them? Why do they engage these people in an argument, or publicly expose their IP address or whatever other information they can get hold of? What purpose does it really…

  • Random news

    Steven has a list of downloadable guidebooks to Windows Server 2003. Sandisk is going to have a combo Wi-Fi / 128MB CF card available June 16th. No word on pricing. (link pulled from PocketPC Thoughts) Scoble, who may just well have set some sort of blog-posts per hour record last night into this morning, (Pace…