Maps, public transportation information, driving directions, hotel recommendations and other useful visitor information can be obtained from the attached document.
The attached document is a ZIP file.
Inside that ZIP file is a Word document.
The Word document contains the same text as the invitation email.
At the bottom of the Word document, presumably containing the actual “useful visitor information,” is another Word document, embedded as an OLE object, which is of course unusable in OpenOffice.
]]>]]>MySpace fills most of the space on its music pages with the work of awful bands, hundreds of thousands of them, and trolling among them provides a kind of perverse entertainment. The music is searchable by five criteria: band name, band bio, band members, influences, and “sounds like.” After an hour or so of using the search mode to find something worth the effort, I got punchy and, after the words “sounds like,” typed “shit.” Pages for more than three hundred bands popped up, and the first five, I can attest, were well categorized.
Every hour, Infoworld “sees a massive surge of RSS newsreader activity” that “has all the characteristics of a distributed DoS attack.”
Attention idiotic RSS reader programmers: When a user says “check this site for updates once an hour,” they do not want you to check it on the hour, every hour! What they actually want is for you to wait an hour between successive queries.
Ed: Note: In 2018, we know that Scott Adams is a garbage human, but I did manage to track down the original strip that the title references.
]]>]]>I would prefer the risks of private nukes to the disarmament of the civilian population.