Holy spam, Batman!

by admin on July 21, 2010

Dreamhost recently changed the e-mail server for all of my sites, including this one. A lovely little side effect of the change is that they seem to have blown away all of my spam filtering, flooding my inbox with thousands of spam e-mails over the last several days.

Holee crapola.

Sorry if you sent an e-mail over the last several days that never received an answer. (I have no excuse for not answering any e-mail sent prior to this spamming spree, but I hope you forgive that, too.) I’ll try and answer you shortly.

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Sorry for the downtime

by admin on May 6, 2010

I’m moving the site over to a different hosting account so stceo.org will temporarily show up either empty, partially empty, or completely unavailable for a few hours or longer while I move the files and the DNS settings propagate. E-mails to @stceo.org accounts may also bounce during this period of time.

A temporary copy of the site has been uploaded to http://www.stceo.net, if you’re not able to access stceo.org at the moment.

Thanks.

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The State of the Union, an addendum

June 1, 2009

I’ve been an absentee STC chapter president for the last year, perhaps longer. I stayed on as president for 2008/2009 only because no one else stepped forward to fill the role. The general burnout of the chapter board combined with the marked apathy of the membership led to us not holding a competition this year [...]

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The State of the Union

June 1, 2009

(This is a copy of the notice that I just posted on the chapter’s home page.)
We’ve always had difficulty finding sufficient enthusiastic volunteers to run the chapter. Enthusiasm is difficult to sustain in a vacuum.
Apathy
This past year’s chapter executive consisted primarily of people who hadn’t volunteered for the job but had agreed to stay on [...]

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More fun from Failblog

July 22, 2008

I had a conversation with a friend the other day about being careful when you order a cake from the supermarket because they will spell it exactly as it reads — if it’s misspelled, they’ll misspell it on the cake; if there’s a typo, they’ll include the typo on the cake. Similar things happen with [...]

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Failure to communicate

May 31, 2008

If you ever look at the blogroll or links list on this blog, you’ll have seen the link for the Stick Figures in Peril Flickr pool. The pool consists of very funny interpretations of frequently very confusing or poorly designed stick fugure diagrams. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. Darren Barefoot’s “Hall [...]

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Order of letters not important?

March 7, 2008

I’m sure most of you have seen this e-mail at some point. I can’t remember the first time I saw it but I remember the two last times because both happened at work, one quite recently.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, [...]

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Samuel Estwick 1915-2008

February 17, 2008

I received an e-mail today informing me that Sam Estwick, former member of the STC and editor of Stimulus way back when it first started, passed away on February 13, 2008, at the age of 92.
A celebration of Sam’s life will be held on Saturday March 1st, at 2:00 p.m. in Lupton Hall, at [...]

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Dreamhost accidentally bills customers two years early

January 15, 2008

Dreamhost, our Web host for this site and my personal Web host, ran an automated billing process last night that apparently had the wrong billing date set. So, instead of cleaning up billing up to Jan. 14, 2007, it thought today was Dec. 31, 2008. This caused it to (a) automatically deduct/charge the money for [...]

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Why, it’s the best product on the planet!

January 10, 2008

Check out the reviews on this lovely piece of classic technology.
They’re a bit pricey but don’t the reviews just make you want one?

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