Daniel King

Recently, spammers have tried to contaminate anti-spam filters with an onslaught of nonsense emails and emails that resemble mail server error responses. I filter all my email through Gmail (the ‘G’ is for Google) because I can use it anywhere (even on my cell phone). Their spam filter rarely lets any spam through, but the last couple weeks, I’ve had ten or twenty spam mails a day.

I was able to filter half of these myself since many were almost identical. Over the last few days, the number has dropped to one or two. I checked my spam folder. Gmail caught them! Good work Google!

Sometimes people lose passwords. Sometimes the only way to save an account involves a confirmation email being sent to the email address you signed up with. Sometimes we let domain names lapse prematurely and we need the domain back to get the email to rescue the account. Follow?

I tried to rescue the domain shortly after it expired, but the company I registered with was holding it hostage for a hundred bucks. They finally let it go so I was able to re-register it for seven bucks. Now I can rescue the account. It was worth seven bucks and I’m lucky no one snatched it up.

So, since I invested a whole seven bucks, I have to make something out of it. Seven bucks is seven bucks after all. You’ll be able to visit the HostMonk Resurrection after December February 1st. What it will be is a mystery even to me at this point, but probably a guide to hosting and such.

I’ve been working on some Greasemonkey scripts lately to automate some time-consuming (and needless) tasks. Since I spend alot of time in Gmail, I thought I’d look through the scripts created for that site. Then I came across this script and immediately fell in love.

It’s simple. After installing this script, whenever you click on a mailto: link, Gmail opens instead of your mail client. After writing your email, it takes you back to the original page.

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(I always wanted the option to have a browser automatically copy the email address when clicked on, but that never happened.)