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Musings on the conference business and what makes conferences work.

Posted: Oct 29, 2004 Category: Conference
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My previous post on scams was written without taking into account a rather more disturbing development in the spam/scam scene. I recently received spam that claimed to have lots of credit card numbers for sale, prices varying according to the issuing country and how many card numbers you wanted. I went to the web site [...]

Posted: Oct 20, 2004 Category: General, Rants
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Tim has a post and wonders why the criminals are so blatant when it should be easy to track them down.
I think the answer is simple - nobody feels that they’re responsible.
We live in Canada, the phishing attempt was about a US company, and the phishing script is running on a Thai [...]

Posted: Oct 17, 2004 Category: Rants
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Found in my inbox this morning:
Hello,
I found your website http://www.xmlconference.org on Google.
Your website has content related to our’s at www.the-gallery-of-china.com.
This is a very high quality website and is very well ranked on Google (PR7).
We are happy to upload a link onto this website in any way you request in exchange for a return link. [...]

Posted: Oct 08, 2004 Category: Conference
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The Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 web site has some saddening comments about the US electoral system today. The saddest is a pointer to the BBC story of ex-President Carter’s contention that Florida does not fulfill international requirements for a fair election. Since Florida has so many votes associated with it, it is a determining [...]

Posted: Sep 28, 2004 Category: General, Rants
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A small bookclub meeting with mixed feelings about Naguib Mahfouz’ “Palace Walk”

Posted: Sep 27, 2004 Category: Books
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