Peter Shankman

Making the Most of “Short-Burst” Downtime

I put “downtime” into two different categories. Short-burst downtime, and long-burst downtime.
Long-burst downtime, we all know, are the hours between the flight attendant saying  “Sir, the doors closed 15 minutes ago, Blackberry off, NOW,”  and that first “ka-thump” of the wheels hitting pavement, hundreds or even thousands of miles away.
Then there’s short-burst downtime.
If you’re connected [...]

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Anyone notice Skype is down?

D’oh.
From www.skype.com: UPDATED 16 August, 2007 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging in to Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it’s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue [...]

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Friday thoughts on SPAM

I couldn’t sleep, so was going through my junk folder for false positives – 34.87 megabytes of SPAM since one week ago Friday. Just thinking about that multiplied by everyone on the Internet scares the hell out of me when I think about bandwidth.
So I don’t.
What I do think about though, is this – and [...]

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“This email was sent to you because you’re a friend or client.

Got this from someone. I don’t know him. I don’t think I know him, anyway. It was an email announcing that he’s speaking at some conference. It ended with this:

This message is sent to you because you are a Friend, Contact or Client of Raj Goel, CISSP
917-685-7731 / raj@brainlink.com
and subscribed to the mailing list <RajGoelContacts@brainlink.com>.
To [...]

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Does this sound like you? Or Me?

Are you addicted to email?
PC World reports that enough people are that they’re responding while driving, in church, and ahem… while on the toilet.
"Dear Mike – Just thought I’d squeeze off this one email to you…"
Are You Addicted to Email
Ew.

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