Ben Forta

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May 19, 2004

Symantec, Powered by ColdFusion

During the MacroChat this afternoon, I mentioned that Symantec was using ColdFusion on their public site, and several of you e-mailed to tell me that you looked and only saw .html URLs. So, go to http://www.symantec.com/ and click on "Products and Services", just about every link in the Products...

May 18, 2004

SpyBot 1.3 Available

SpyBot S&D (for "Search & Destroy") is a great little utility that will help you find adware, tracking cookies, and other little nasties. I had been using an earlier version for a while (more to keep an eye on what cookies are being used for than anything else), and now v1.3 is out. SpyBot...

May 17, 2004

Book By "Bad Customer Service Junkie"

I've posted several rants about bad customer service, and these caught the eye of Adam Bailine who calls himself "a bad customer service junkie". He e-mailed me to tell me about his book "Service this: Winning the war against Customer Disservice". I have not seen the book yet, so no reviews, but...

May 16, 2004

HotBrick, Not Hot Enough, Yet

I recently installed a great little firewall appliance. Or rather, I tried to. HotBrick (http://www.hotbrick.com/) is a relative newcomer to the space, but their devices are appealing. I tried the VPN 600/2 (the smaller of the two devices). It features 2 WAN ports (offering load-balancing and...

May 13, 2004

Intel Wants to Help To Park Your Car

A video report from Intel Research Center shows an app that will report free parking spaces based on your specified criteria. Unfortunately, it also will help meter-maids write tickets more efficiently! See http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2-5209834.html.

May 11, 2004

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: The Movie

I don't know how I feel about this one. "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" is my favorite series (I'll confess to rereading the full 5 volume trilogy every year or so). But a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie? I guess it was inevitable, but honestly, I am not sure that I want to see what some...

May 10, 2004

Google Blogs

Google Blog is the official blog of Google itself. As per the tag line: "Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search." See http://www.google.com/googleblog/.

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