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Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM
Email is dying, or Your resume has been
marked as SPAM
02/10/2004 02:56 AMToday I ran across an entry on Dave Sifry's weblog that noted that
Technorati was hiring. I went to Technorati's job page and found a job
that looks like it was made for me, as good as the dream job that got
away from me a year ago. Excitedly, I sat down and wrote up a cover
letter, pointing out all the ways in which I would be a perfect fit
for the job (and thinking about how much fun it would be). At the end,
I debated how to include my resume. If Dave is processing applicants
through a recruiter, they probably want resumes in Microsoft Word,
which seems to be the only format that most recruiters can deal with,
for reasons unknown to me. On the other hand, Dave is a longtime Linux
geek. I remember that I've exchanged emails with him in the past. I
check my email archive -- aha, my last email from him was written
using Ximian Evolution 1.4. Better include my resume inline as ASCII
as well, with a link to the online version of my resume, I think. So I
send off my resume and cover letter and happily turn to other tasks.
Half an hour later I check email, and do my usual quick scan through
my junkmail folder. What do I spot but the cc'd copy of my cover
letter and resume. I just started testing a new version of the Spamnix
spam filter that added Bayesian filtering. Spamnix is a Eudora plug-in
based on Spam Assassin. It decided that the email and resume that I
sent to Dave was SPAM: SPAM: ------------------------ Spamnix Spam
Report ------------------------- SPAM: Spamnix identified this message
as spam. This report shows which SPAM: rules matched the message and
how many points each rule contributed. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis
details: (5.4 hits, 5.0 required) SPAM: 5.4 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian
spam probability is 99 to 100% Apparently words like Standards,
Marketing, System, Proven, Global, Experience, President,
Technologies, Product, Project, Manager, Director, Startups, and
Software, which appear in my resume, are also common in the spam I
receive. To some degree this makes sense -- resumes and cover letters,
like spam, are a form of self-promotion. This is probably one of the
reasons that I find job hunting painful, since I was trained to be
modest about my accomplishments, and am shy by nature. But it
creates...
"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?"
"A Dying Craft, or a Dying Business?"
04/02/2005 11:08 AMSpam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
Spam, spam, spam, spam ... Canada
targets unwanted email (AFP)
05/12/2004 04:17 AMAFP - Canada unveiled a new action plan to combat unsolicited
commercial e-mail, nicknamed spam, which jams inboxes and clogs
Internet traffic worldwide.
For when you're dying to know...
For when you're dying to know...
04/18/2004 08:23 PM
Cinemorgue - Proof that
some people have way too much time on their hands.
kuro5hin is dying
kuro5hin is dying
04/27/2004 03:47 PM
Where
is Rusty? An abandoned community cries out for its creator to
return.
"A dying church"
"A dying church"
05/15/2004 02:22 PMIs Google Dying?
Is Google Dying?
09/01/2004 01:16 PMWebProNews Sep 1 2004 5:27PM GMT
I feel like I'm dying
I feel like I'm dying
06/03/2004 09:19 AMI've been married for 14 years to a woman who is clinically depressed.
Will the pain ever end?
A Long Dying Done...
A Long Dying Done...
04/24/2004 12:42 AMSpalding Gray, as my friend Mountain Girl said, had a very long dying.
Part of him died colliding with a mad cow veterinarian in Ireland
during the summer of 2001. A lot of him died in cranial surgery on the
Upper East Side in September of that year. He literally died in New
York Harbor in January. For many, he conclusively died only when his
mortal shell surfaced near Greenpoint last month. For myself, I laid
him to rest, as much as I ever will, a week ago in the Vivian Beaumont
Theater. I have surpassed the usual lifetime quota of memorial
services by some long measure but I don't know that I have ever
attended one that felt more appropriate to the essence of its focal
missing person. Spalding Gray was as present as anyone so absent could
possibly be. He was present in the monsoon deluge that soaked me on
the way to Lincoln Center. It was a rain where you could drown by
looking up, as turkeys are said to sometimes do, and it leaked in
streams through the aging 60's roof of the Vivian Beaumont, pooling in
several areas of the stage but missing the lonely oak table and its
empty chair. He was present in elegant clarity of those who rose to
remember him. He was present in their humor and their melancholy,
their heartful candor, their diversity. And it was a motley crew it
was, ranging from fellow monologuist Eric Bigosian to musician Laurie
Anderson to actor Eric Stolz to poet Bob Holman to composer Philip
Glass playing a musical sigh for piano and clarinet, to Judy Collins
leading us all in "Amazing Grace." There were some perfect moments,
like when essayist Roger Rosenblatt, perfectly manicured and
patrician, recalled Spalding's prodigious farts. Or when his very
close friend Robby Stein talked about Spalding, the weirdly great dad,
and you could see his results so clearly in the shy, impish smile that
his son Theo wore when he mounted the stage. He provided some of those
moments himself, though various video clips from his monologues, his
stage performances, and a wonderful out-take from a Barbara Kopple
documentary which, though shot after his accident, made it clear that
the old Spalding was still with us until his second surgery in
September of 2001. In it, there were dogs howling in the background,
and his visible appreciation of them reminded me of the time that he
convinced me and another friend to bay like wolves with him in a fancy
Tribeca restaurant. And a whole table full of Wall Street swells
howled back. He will have another memorial service for family and
close friends in Sag Harbor on May 15, and I expect that the virtual
monument you are building here with your comments will continue to
grow. But I'm am going to get back to blogging about other things now.
I'm very glad that I was able to provide a place for this to happen,
but I feel like it's time for me to move on. In closing this chapter,
here are the brief remarks I read at the Vivian Beaumont, condensed in
part from things I've said here. I've said my piece and I will let
Spuddy rest in his....
WebMonkey is Dying
WebMonkey is Dying
02/17/2004 04:58 PMWebmonkey, RIP: 1996 – 2004: WebMonkey is where I
learned everything I told the interviewer I knew in the three weeks
between the job interview and my first day. My first relational
database design came from a tutorial on this site.
Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into
attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down
following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent
company, Terra Lycos (also the parent company of Wired News). Judging
by blog posts and e-mails, the site's fans aren't surprised. Still,
they're sad to see the end of an era.
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Why the Windows API is Dying
Why the Windows API is Dying
06/17/2004 06:45 AMHow
Microsoft Lost the API War: This is an incredibly long, but very
interesting, article from Joel Spolsky in which he explains why the
venerable Windows API is dying. He spends 6,252 fasinating words and
a couple of dozen tangents getting to this point at the end:
[...] Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications
don't require Windows. [...]
I'm actually a little bit sad about this, myself. To me the Web is
great but Web-based applications with their sucky, high-latency,
inconsistent user interfaces are a huge step backwards in daily
usability. I love my rich client applications and would go nuts if I
had to use web versions of the applications I use daily [...]
None of this bodes well for Microsoft and the profits it enjoyed
thanks to its API power. The new API is HTML, and the new winners in
the application development marketplace will be the people who can
make HTML sing.
He also says this about .Net, which will make my friend Matt feel
happy and vindicated because I razz him all the time about being a
Microsoft whore:
Much as I hate to say it, a huge chunk of developers have
long since moved to the web and refuse to move back. Most .NET
developers are ASP.NET developers, developing for Microsoft's web
server. ASP.NET is brilliant; I've been working with web development
for ten years and it's really just a generation ahead of everything
out there.
There you go Matt, now leave me alone.
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Are the TV networks dying?
Are the TV networks dying?
04/11/2005 08:14 AM NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying
NSC Statistics - What are the Odds of
Dying
11/02/2003 06:30 AMThe wonderful, wonderful odds of dying by hot tap water, melting
nightwear, or contact with lizards .. released a report calculating
your odds of dying .. 3. pick your
poison
nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
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The Dying Art of Bullet Making
The Dying Art of Bullet Making
06/24/2005 07:07 PMWho knew that bullet making was quickly becoming an old fashioned
activity? I you want a low tech how-to, this one’s for you:
“Like darning socks, making bullets is a dying art. Used to be
just about everyone with a need for ammo poured their own, using iron
or even wooden molds. These days only a few diehard hobbyists still do
it, and they use aluminum molds. But even fewer people still make
silver bullets….
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Pay Phones: A Dying Breed?
Pay Phones: A Dying Breed?
04/11/2005 03:50 AMCBS Now Apr 11 2005 8:14AM GMT
email dying - rss alternatives
email dying - rss alternatives
01/07/2004 06:56 PMSteve Outing
[via
sn<
/a>]: "Any e-mail publisher with a survival instinct should be
publishing RSS feeds of the content that it currently e-mails."
Nomention of my essay, so here's the link again.
When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire
When it's set to Busy, you'd better be
either dying or on fire
12/22/2004 01:53 AMTom has a good post on the weird context shifts caused by IM on
hiptops. On both sides there are social problems that emerge because
the behaviour of the interfaces is confused with the behaviour of the
people at either...
US TV to show dying Diana
US TV to show dying Diana
04/21/2004 05:15 PMThe US television network CBS will show images of Diana moments after
the car crash which led to her death.
Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying?
Now The Cassette Tape Is Dying?
06/17/2005 03:33 PMEarlier this week, we thought
the
VHS tape was dying, but that turned out to be a slight
exaggeration. However, the VHS's older brother, the audio cassette
tape may
actually be
on its last legs. The article notes, of course, that when the
recordable cassette tape first came out, the recording industry
freaked out and claimed that it would be the death of music (sound
familiar?). Instead, it helped grow the music business, in part
because of the ability for people to create
mix
tapes and give them to others to help introduce them to new music.
Rings stolen from dying pensioner
Rings stolen from dying pensioner
04/05/2005 07:05 AMA 98-year-old woman had rings stolen from her fingers as she lay dying
in a Manchester hospital, police say.
Dying Languages, Fading Formats
Dying Languages, Fading Formats
03/20/2003 03:13 PMCDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores
CDs Dying Out, But So Are Many Music
Downloading Stores
01/26/2004 03:29 AMI doubt this is all that surprising to most people, but Forrester is
predicting a
shift from
the CD to buying downloadable music, while at the same time
predicting that about half of the current music download stores will
go out of business by the end of the year. I think they're being a
bit optimistic on both predictions. I'm still not convinced the CD is
going to go away that quickly. While I also agree that many of the
music download stores aren't long for this world, I'd be surprised if
most of the current ones didn't at least make it through a year - but
perhaps not much longer than that.
Stunning new photos of dying star
Stunning new photos of dying star
09/10/2004 11:27 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Stunning
new photos of dying star'
“Dying stars, called planetary nebulae, very often have rings
such as those seen in this image, astronomers have found. This photo
depicts the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one such dying star. It’s 3,000
light years away. The rings, found in at least one third of all
planetary nebulae, may be the key to explaining the final
“gasp” of the central star as it bursts apart. Scientists
describe these rings as a “nested Russian doll” structure,
but…
mod_perl presence dying at OSCON
mod_perl presence dying at OSCON
06/08/2004 01:03 AM stas writes "It appears that in the last few years we have had fewer
and fewer mod_perl talks and tutorials at the big (non-YAPC)
conferences. And that's a bad trend. It certainly affects the number
of mod_perl job offers, since those who decide which ...
Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying
Netcraft Confirms It: Comdex is Dying
06/23/2004 03:55 PMGah! This fucknut canceled Comdex. "We feel that while we could run
Comdex profitably this year, it really wouldn't serve the interests of
the broader IT industry," says Eric Faurot. Really, though, I don't
blame him. Comdex might be able to be run at a profit, but it's been
bleeding visitors and interesting products for a while now. There
haven't been any booth babes for years, for instance. Still, it's
Comdex!
Wait, Comdex isn't a comics convention? Oh, good riddance, then.
Read
[ZDNet]
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
Finance Spam Passing Drug Spam While
Porn Spam Is Washed Up
05/24/2004 05:37 PMThe latest study on spam trends appears to show that
financial spam is outpacing pharmaceutical spam
- though, honestly, so much of both is coming out that it's really
hard to imagine that this matters at all. Meanwhile, it seems that
porn spam is increasingly less interesting to spammers as the numbers
have been on a noticeable decline for quite some time. No matter
what, though, it appears that CAN-SPAM has done absolutely nothing to
slow down the amount of spam sent.
FDA: Give dying cancer victims Ecstasy
FDA: Give dying cancer victims Ecstasy
12/28/2004 06:55 AM
Cory Doctorow:
The FDA has approved research into whether Ecstasy should be used in
palliative care of terminal cancer patients to ease their final days.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pilot study looking at
whether the recreational hallucinogen can help terminally-ill patients
lessen their fears, quell thoughts of suicide and make it easier for
them to deal with loved ones.
"End of life issues are very important and are getting more and more
attention, and yet there are very few options for patients who are
facing death," Dr John Halpern, the Harvard research psychiatrist in
charge of the study, said.
The small four-month study is expected to begin early next spring. It
will test the drug's effects on 12 cancer patients from the Lahey
Clinic Medical Centre in the Boston area. The research is being
sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic
Studies, a non-profit group that plans to raise 250,000 (-184,816) to
fund it.
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"A Good Forest for Dying" by Patrick
Beach
"A Good Forest for Dying" by Patrick
Beach
07/14/2004 08:20 AMSince Earth First activist David Chain was crushed by a falling tree
in the Headwaters standoff of 1998, he has been memorialized in song
by Bonnie Raitt and been made the subject of a book and a play. But
the corporate lumber giants he opposed are still standing tall.
Dying star leaves heavenly body
Dying star leaves heavenly body
06/12/2004 12:05 AMContent.sina.com - Fri Jun 11, 08:08 pm GMT
On death and dying: reconciling yourself
to hard drive failure
On death and dying: reconciling yourself
to hard drive failure
03/14/2005 04:52 PMHard drive errors are never welcome. They are even less welcome
when you haven't been doing regular backups. No matter how the problem
manifests itself — random freezes, strange behavior, clicks, or
grinds — the warning signs are there, if you have eyes to see and
ears to hear. The key is how you react once your precious hard drive
starts going south.
The computer reaches the grey screen with an Apple and
a spinning wheel and sits there. After a few minutes, I look up from
my darjeeling and bread with marmalade (I am not actually British) and
the book I am reading, Robert Alter's new translation of the
Pentateuch, in which I have just started Exodus (really). I see my
computer not booting.
Uh oh, this is bad. Very bad.
This is the tale of one man's encounter with a dying hard drive,
and his progression through the five stages of grief: denial, anger,
depression, bargaining, and acceptance. In the best case scenario, the
acceptance stage will be followed by restoring your backup onto your
new hard drive. In the worst case... let's not talk about that.
Read on for a lesson in reconciling yourself to hard drive
failure.
Statmarket Survey: Random Surfing A
Dying Sport
Statmarket Survey: Random Surfing A
Dying Sport
02/10/2003 03:00 AM"...over 64 percent of Internet users arrived at sites by direct
navigation."
Local10.com - News - Woman's Dying Wish:
Bush Defeated
Local10.com - News - Woman's Dying Wish:
Bush Defeated
07/31/2004 03:37 PMWoman's Dying Wish: Bush Defeated .. Class
act
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From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream
From spam drops to spam spray to spam
stream
06/05/2004 07:31 PM I am now getting 2,000+ spams a day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day
The rate of incoming spams is therefore getting close to the interval
it takes me to check my email and dispose of a single spam: By the
time I'm done checking, more spam has arrived. That is the point at
which the spam droplets form a continuous stream. And that is the
point at which no interval of my life will ever be spam-free again....
A trickle of reports coming out of North
Korea paint a picture of a regime in its
dying days
A trickle of reports coming out of North
Korea paint a picture of a regime in its
dying days
12/30/2004 11:53 AMPortrait of a family at war: Kim Jong Il purges relatives after
alleged coup bid .. Let's not
forget
news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=596607
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VMware has ACE up its Sleeve
VMware has ACE up its Sleeve
09/21/2004 02:42 PMVMware has announced a beta release of a new product dubbed VMware ACE
that enables desktop IT managers to apply enterprise IT policies to
virtual machines that contain data, applications and operating
systems. VMware claims that ACE creates an isolated PC environment.
EMC To Acquire VMware
EMC To Acquire VMware
12/15/2003 06:55 PMkma writes "According to The Register, virtual machine software maker
(and my employer) VMware Inc. will be acquired by storage giant EMC,
pending the usual ...
VMWare Workstation 4.5.2
VMWare Workstation 4.5.2
07/19/2004 03:01 AMReview: Do you have a split personality when it comes to operating
systems? VMWare could be the answer to your prayers.
EMC Acquires VMWare
EMC Acquires VMWare
01/05/2004 09:09 PMReview: VMware 4.5.2
Review: VMware 4.5.2
09/15/2004 01:47 PMVirtual machine software allows you to run one operating system (and
its applications) from within the environment of another. For years
the most recognized name in virtual machine software for the x86
architecture has been VMware, whose eponymous industry-leading product
supports a wide variety of guest operating systems. Recently EMC Corp.
bought VMware, and has since released VMware Workstation 4.5 for $199.
The most recent release is 4.5.2, which adds 64-bit host operating
system support. There isn't much that VMware Workstation can't do,
except perhaps achieve the level of performance that a genuine
installation of the guest operating system enjoys.
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