Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
I had a high interest savings account with EmigrantDirect for about 1 1/2 years. About July of 2006 this year, Emigrant switched their providers for online banking, resulting in a new interface for their website. Shortly after that switch, I have begun to get spam messages on the email address ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Slashdot has a story about an experimental blog solely focused on asbestos (there is also a similar one on Vioxx and Celebrex). The intention is that certain hot topics attract a lot of Ad Words advertisers which pay a lot of money for clicks. It would be interesting to see ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
For folks making upto a certain amount of money, free tax filing software and online services are available. Take a look at the IRS FreeFile program for more.
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Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Did you ever wonder who is funding spyware companies? Ben Edelman who has been researching spyware for a while has just published a list of major investors in spyware companies. Total amount of venture capital invested = $139 million (via PolitechBot).
Wow.
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...
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