Aja Lapus

Category: Opinion

  • E-mushiness: Ham or Spam?

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    I have posted here interesting things I’ve received as spam, but nothing seems to get close to appear ham like this one. It was nevertheless caught by my spam filter, but its idea is so unusual, I just can’t let it pass. It even has a companion Web site that looks legitimate.

  • Avoid MS Excel 2007

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    MS Excel has a certain multiplication bug reproduced by doing multiplication that would result to 65,535 (0xFFFF). Try =850*77.1 on yours.

  • Transformers

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    Ok, ok … I won’t be talking about my past EE lessons here. I’ve just watched Transformers with my uncle and cousins yesterday. I must say it was great! The action scenes, camera angles, and effects are just astounding—thanks to Michael Bay. The realism put into the mecha CG animation was amazing as well!

  • On Nofollow, Spam and Plugins

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    When the search engine giant Google announced that it would implement the rel=”nofollow” directive on its crawlers, most people had hopes it would be the end of comment spam, most especially when search competitors Yahoo! and MSN expressed support for the microformat as well. But, has this initiative from Google done its job?

  • Ituloy Angsulong Spam

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    Now, why would someone comment on one of my non-SEO related entries with the term Ituloy Angsulong linking to their contest entry URI? I guess it’s someone who’s so desperate to win. It seems to me that no one else hates spam more than I do. I’m thankful Akismet really knows spam—even if it is…