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!

You can order the 100% electric Tesla Roadster (a really cool-looking electric sportscar) for an estimated February 2008 delivery. You’ll have to fork over about half the cash up front for the “reservation” or if you’re “patient”, you only have to ante up about a third. Unfortunately, this puts it out of the reach of most people.

On the other hand, this could usher in a new hybrid-free age of viable, good-looking electric cars - finally. You’ll still want to rent a gas-hog for long distance trips, but it’ll get most people around town all day up to 250 miles while costing about 1¢/mile. Most people rarely need anything else. The days of joyriding might even make a comeback.

Personally, the Roadster is too small for me. Maybe we could have a man-sized car next? I don’t need the sportscar features either. How about a pickup truck? Yes. I know. The point is that it has performance and styling in a price-range where performance and styling matters. It doesn’t appear they missed the point.

Should the end of the world (or some facsimile thereof) not occur, here are seven predictions for 2007:

1. There will be more great movies this year. (In my experience, odd-numbered years always have more great movies.)
2. Terrorism will be underreported in the media.
3. The Democrats will stop playing nice when they realize that playing nicely with President Bush makes him look good.
4. Most new commercial music will continue to suck. The new U2 album may give hope, but will they try too hard?
5. The next (and assumedly last) Harry Potter book will be delayed until at least 2008. (Update: Release date is July 2007 - the first to fall.)
6. No lifeforms smarter than humans will invade from outer space.
7. I will be correct on at least 6 out of 7 of these predictions.

What? Too short? If I stretch too much what chance do I have of being right? (This isn’t meant to be prophecy, just fun.)

“I never apologize, Lisa. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am”

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.