Tag: Tech

  • Ziff Davis Spam Part III: The Solution?

    As I reported here, here, and here, Ziff Davis spams people. Fortunately, I found this page. It looks like it was the solution! Read more below the jump.

  • More Ziff Davis Spam

    Ziff Davis is at it, still. I got a few more of their ridiculous spams, without even an unsubscribe link, today. They are despicable.

  • Spell Check Not Working in Word 2007

    I recently installed Office 2007 on my new computer. Dubious judgment call, maybe, as it is bug-ridden as any other Microsoft product, but it was $25 at the campus store. Anyway, I rapidly found that spellcheck and, sometimes, grammar check didn’t work, at all. The below example, of a new document being checked for the…

  • Ziff Davis: Spammers Extraordinaire

    Ziff Davis is spamming me. A lot, in fact, to the tune of several messages per day. I have, for several years, subscribed to various Ziff Davis e-mail newsletters, including the CIO Insight and eWeek publications. I have tried many times, now – approximately 20 – in the last three months to unsubscribe, however, since…

  • Arrrgh… E-mail is the Bane of My Existence

    E-mail stats through 13 days of June:* Good: 1,217 (93.6/day) Spam: 8,535 (656.5/day) Total: 9,752 (750.2/day) This is intolerable. * Figures do not include e-mail received on my University of Chicago, Yahoo!, or GMail accounts. I don’t even want to know how bad things are when those are factored in.