My old friend Chris Brown is organizing a Blues concert this Sunday. Chris wrote me: On Sunday, June 25th, from 1pm-7pm, There is a blue’s benefit brunch at the Savory Grill on rte. 32 in Highland Mills NY (get directions). It is 4.2 miles north of the Woodbury Commons Outlet Center. All proceeds go to […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Link Spam
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
I have a website HarpLinks.com that is a neat php application. I wrote it myself and loaded it with about 3000 harmonica related links. It has a Add-a-new-link function. I am getting 20 or more spam links a day. The interesting thing is that they look like they are genrerated from different IP addresses. There […]
Science Fiction as an extension of Beat literature.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
I read Rudy’s Blog regularly. His Software and Wetware are two of my favorite cyberpunk books. Rudy was a Math Professor and now is a full time writer. I’ve never heard of Yage, although I must have read about it in Naked Lunch. I’ll have to find some for the Poker Boys. I think it […]
Jim Baen – stroke
Friday, June 16, 2006
I just read that Jim Baen is seriously ill. I have always had the highest regard for Baen as a publishing firm, and of the man, although I have never met him. Baen’s has had a reputation of dealing fairly with authors in a field that makes its profits by nickel and diming the writers […]
Mystery Emails solved
Thursday, June 15, 2006
It turns out that the random number emails are from a trojan on another machine. The trojan is called W32.Beagle.FC. These infected machines download a file from a host machine that contains email addresses and then tries to send email in order to confirm that the email address is live. Basically the spammer made a […]
Don’t Blog this!
Monday, June 12, 2006
100 38 Things that you shouldn’t put in your blog. I use Blogger.com’s random blog feature. I have found some great stuff, but I am beginning to detect patterns. Some stuff is quite common and very uninteresting. Some stuff is repeated over and over again. Some stuff just wastes my time. This is a growing […]
Political Spam
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Erica won’t let me say anything bad about “good” politicians who spam. I would prefer to call them names. Today, though, I received political spam from someone calling themselves The Voter Email Company. The emails actually come from a company called intelisend.net. The email came from tvc-ip.com. I am guessing that they handle mass mailings […]
New Look for CThreePO.com
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
In 1999 I registered CThreePO.com. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I thought someone would want to buy the domain, but there were no takers. I put up a few essays and a cheesey front page. Lately, I have been making blog templates for people and I decided to upgrade the look […]