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How to Properly "Turn Off" Google Buzz

by Riyad Kalla on 12. Feb, 2010 in Technology

If you are currently stuck trying to turn off Google Buzz correctly you’ll want to check out Jessica Dolcourt’s 4-page article on CNET telling you how.
I think any time it takes 4 pages to figure out how to turn off a feature that effectively turns your inbox into Twitter and pulls words out of your [...]

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If I Get This Back, OK, If Not, I Will Know Why…

by Katie Mullaly on 23. Sep, 2009 in Humor & Fun, Life & World

I hate spam.  I hate spam so much, that sometimes it makes me cry…mostly because of how much my knuckles sting while I am beating the crap out of the person that sent it.  Okay, fine, that’s never happened, but I have made it pretty clear that I don’t want people to send me some [...]

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Akismet: Unknown column 'pingback_views' in 'field list' on line: 529

Akismet: Unknown column 'pingback_views' in 'field list' on line: 529

by Riyad Kalla on 05. Nov, 2008 in Technology

I wouldn’t normally post this because it seemed so insignificant, but recently when I’ve been trying to mark certain pingback traffic as spam with Akismet, I’ve been getting a plain white page with the following error on it:
Unknown column ‘pingback_views’ in ‘field list’ on line: 529
I couldn’t remember when this started happening, it might have [...]

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Broken English Spam is Awesome

by Riyad Kalla on 23. Oct, 2008 in Humor & Fun

Spam is usually an annoyance, but sometimes the language is either so extreme (old Spermmax ads anyone?) or so broken that it’s just hilarious. I got an email today that was the latter:
Dearest One,
I am so sorry if I may interrupt or violate your policy in any way,I have a proposal for you-this however is [...]

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Porn Popups from Spam Cause Guilty Verdict for Teacher

by Riyad Kalla on 13. Jan, 2007 in Life & World

Let’s assume for a second that the facts are correct as stated here since that’s all I have to go on. The gist of the idea is that a teacher has computers in her class room for her underaged kids to use. It turns out that spyware had installed porn popups on the machines. Part [...]

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