This is all over the ASP.NET weblogs. MSDN has put up this page that lists some VB weblogs. Here’s Duncan Mackenzie’s post about it … he’s apparently the author/owner and maintainer of the page.

Read about it in this particular ASP.NET weblog. Bruce Eckel’s “Thinking in C++” is available as a download or you can buy it from Amazon.com. The author of the weblog entry swears by the book. I’ll have to download it and give it a look-see. I’m an old C programmer and was just getting in to C++ when I went over to the dark side (read: joined management). Fortunately, the “good” side kept drawing me back and I ended up trying to help both sides understand each other … but that’s another story.

Slashdot has a pointer to this article on O’ReillyNet by Dru Nelson who talks about Trustic — a service by Mark Fletcher, creator of Bloglines.com. The deal is, Trustic creates blacklists based on feedback from its registered members.

Anyway, this mention is part of a larger discussion about “Defending Your Site Against SPAM” — Part 1 and Part 2. Part 2 discusses implementing protection with qmail and how to incorporate Trustic into your configuration. Very interesting stuff!

Gary Burd’s weblog explains how to construct your own RSS feed of an amazon.com query. It’s really not hard, either — it’s all in the URL. Sorry, but I can’t remember where I found this link (I like to credit my sources when I can). It was probably one of the Lockergnome newsletters … errr … RSS feeds. Now, that I’m using bloglines.com and RSS, I rarely read newsletters anymore — no reason to!

And, from this entry in Dan Gillmor’s eJournal there’s this link to a page on Amazon.com discussing their syndicated content. It also gives a couple of good links to more information on RSS and readers.

Published by Microsoft. See this list of their feeds.

You can download it here (a 1,247KB download) and read more about it in MSKB article 817778. Briefly, it includes IPV6 support, including a firewall, and support for the peer-to-peer networking components (peer-to-peer networking name resolution, peer-to-peer networking graphing, peer-to-peer networking grouping and the peer-to-peer networking identity manager). If you’re interested, read the MSKB article.

I’ve set my test mailami.com account up to block everyone so if you want to see what kind of bounce message you get, send it email. I tried it and the bounce message is just as they say and the go one step further: they request that the sender remove this address from their lists. Will that help? — probably not but it can’t hurt, either.

Betanews.com reports on it here. No Bayesian filters, no blacklist/whilelist server, no training the service, (right now) it’s just a simple list of block and allow rules that YOU add. Still, if someone on your block list tries to send email, it never leaves their server — they’re informed that they’ve been blocked (or something like that … I’ll have to test it and see). If that’s the case, I kinda like that approach. Rule maintenance could be a pain, though. It’s a new service and there are quite a few rough edges (I’ve sent them 4 comments in the first 5 minutes of my having an account). Try sending me email : ts-test — at — mailami –dot– com.

Service is free for individuals even though it appears that you have to pay something after a 7 day evaluation period.

I kid you not, Xenarc makes a computer that fits in your dashboard. 266MHz Pentium with 128M RAM, 15G disk, USB, PCMCIA slots and more. Although, if you look at the bottom of the page it says

“This product has been temporarily discontinued. We are currently working on a version with faster processor speed, possibly Pentium 3 based platform so that it would support Windows XP. Please check back with us in a couple of months for more information. Mean while, please take a look at our new Pentium 3 based MP-SC1 12V DC Carputer.”

GetNetWise.org discusses how to keep you, your computer, your kids, your identity safe, omitting the jargon and the hype/crap and is backed/supported by the likes of AOL, Microsoft, AT&T, Comcast, Earthlink and a host of others. To some that may sound like damning evidence but the stuff I’ve seen there is generally worthwhile.