We hate junk e-mail as much as you do. As part of our effort to fight junk e-mail, we're asking for a little help from our friends (that's you!).

If you sign up to help, here's what we'll do: Every once in a while, we will resend one of your e-mail messages and ask you to categorize it as either junk or not junk. That's it-one click and you're ( Read more... )

For those of you who like free fonts, Red Hat has released three of them under an open (as in open source) GPL+font license:
To take a key step toward liberating desktops, Red Hat contracted with Ascender Corp., one of the leading commercial developers of fonts, to develop a set of fonts that are metrically equivalent to the key Microsoft fonts.
The ( Read more... )

I blogged a while back about Microsoft making Virtual PC available for free download, and thought it was amazing that you actually test IE6 and 7 on one computer. However, the problem with that is you still had to buy another Windows license ( Read more... )

Windows Live Mail has a new look. It's less white and more blue. So, basically, less Apple and more IT e-Business Solutions circa 1998, with a dash of Web 2.0. At least the interface still rocks way more than static HTML. They just need to get the resizable frames going in Firefox (haw haw, that'll happen soon ( Read more... )

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Microsoft Virtual PC is now free, which means finally, FINALLY, I can test two versions of Internet Explorer on one machine.

I got tech support from Digg of all places! Windows Live Mail was giving me trouble in Firefox, so I sent Microsoft a support ticket. Naturally, they sent me a response telling me how to reset Internet Explorer, so I sent them a condescending message back and then went searching for the fix on my own. I found it on Digg. Digg somehow gives better ( Read more... )

Courtesy of kideo_punk, I've finally gotten a Windows Live Mail Beta invite. It doesn't work in Firefox at work, but it does work in FF at home. It's going to make checking webmail soooo much nicer once they get the bugs hammered out.

Last weekend, Jen (sqweezil ) and I have been together for a whole entire year. Can you believe it? And I don't even hate her, like ( Read more... )

I found a bootleg of a company film that Microsoft put on: Bill Gates vs. Napoleon Dynamite. It's mostly recycled jokes, but there are a couple decent moments. It's about 5 minutes long. 1 hover boot out of five.

I was talking with My-Girl-Sqweezil about what I like about small internet companies.

The thing is, they're quick, and constantly moving. Take LJ, for example. In the last couple weeks, they've added easy-image embedding, nudges for people who don't update enough, and just now they've given me my own subdomain: deadringrancor.livejournal.com ( Read more... )