Technophobia

Monday, January 10, 2005

I use pobox.com for my personal email. Basically it’s a way to have a lifetime email address even though you may switch internet service providers or even just email providers over time. It eliminates the need to notify all of your friends and family of an email address change; you simply update the information with pobox. I’ve had my pobox account for years and I love it.

What makes pobox even better is their spam protection. It’s astounding to see how many messages they kill before they hit my inbox. It’s in the hundreds every day and it saves me a ton of aggravation. I rarely check the discards list anymore because it’s so “smart” that I have yet to not receive a legit message. The proof came during the Christmas shopping season - I did most of my shopping online and I was worried that my heavy spam settings might block order confirmations from getting through. But I got every single one of them.

If you’re inundated with spam, look into making the switch to pobox.com. For $20/year for the basic service, it’s well worth the money.

OK, so you IE users, no one noticed that the sidebar was wonky this weekend? Since I use Firefox at home, I never knew that my tweaking over the weekend caused the sidebar to drop. Geeks - any idea?

Friday, January 07, 2005

I don’t know why the sidebar is showing below the posts. I’m trying to add some of the old sidebar stuff and I’m apparently doing something close to right since it’s there but the sidebar is wonked. My apologies for the mess.

Meanwhile, I think the trackback post is working again? Anyone want to test that?

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Someone try to trackback. I think I may have fixed the problem for now.

UPDATED: Jay suggested that somehow the post title has hosed the trackback function on this post only. This is to redo the post title to see if it resets the permalink that’s now not working.

Someone want to try the trackback for this again? I think it’s good now.

Wait, not working. I think I have to actually change the title wholesale.

OK, permalink works.

It’s a good thing I moved the blog already - the old site is hosed again. Sheesh.