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mail me daily

There’s a guy named Adam Mathes who makes things, and one of the things he made is called mail me daily which is drop-dead simple…. you enter a web site URL and your email, and you magically get email updates from the site. Obviously the site has to have an RSS feed, and you have to have an email address, but besides that, it’s pretty simple. For people who still use email, or get confused by RSS readers, or some other third thing, this is nice… For people who love email.

You can subscribe to RasterWeb! and get excerpts of these posts in your email, which will remind you to stop by the site for a full read. Now, make no mistake, I’m not trying to sell you anything, this isn’t some hard sell to subscribe to my newsletter! but if you’re interested in what I post here, this may be useful. mail me daily has no ads, and cost no money (right now anyway) so I’m interested to see if anyone finds it useful.

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captcha that!

In captcha this! I mused about how you might use ASCII banner text as a captcha, well, them dang spammers must have been listening!

I submit to you an example of the spammy email I got recently. (I hope you’ve got a monospaced font installed.)

Clever! What will they try next?

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Email is broke?

Whew, missed this last week, as I was out, but it seems people think that email is broken, or at least email is somehow having some sort of problem. I wouldn’t really know it if it wasn’t for the hype from everyone else. I’ve had no problem getting my mail. I don’t have a huge increase in spam. I seem to be getting my mail fine, and sending it fine. What’s the problem?

Yeah, I know, I don’t use Windows, and if I did, I’d be using Mozilla products rather than IE and Outlook anyway, but I think the real trick is, I don’t really know people who use those things. Ok, I know people, but obviously I’m not their friend. By that I mean, I don’t seem to be in their Outlook address book, or in their IE cache, or whatever is required by the latest MS flaw-ware that allows Windows to go nuts like a disgruntled postal worker on speed.

I remember a few years back when there was some virus that emailed everyone in your Outlook address book, and at work everyone was getting it except me, due to the fact that either I’m a loser with no friends, or my friends use good software.