I have blocked email from any of these domain names: “webmediaemails.com emarketingblitz.com webmediaprofessionals.com” or any of these IP addresses: “209.203.192 209.203.193 209.203.194 209.203.195 209.203.196 209.203.197 209.203.198 209.203.199 209.203.200 209.203.201 209.203.202 209.203.203 209.203.204 209.203.205 209.203.206 209.203.207″

And I’m close to blocking lauderdale.net and the IP addresses they have been assigned. No web site, tsk tsk.

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MIT is studying blogging. So by blogging about it, I am skewing their results. Cool. (Insert devious grin and cackling laughter here.)

Three more domains used only in spam. Goodbye hotdailydeals.net coolcomputing.info and greatgrapeapes.com.

Well, the spammers and virus writers have won one battle in the war. I have removed my hex-encoded email address from the footer of the pages on my web site. My email address is still available on the site, on my Contact Me page.

I’m probably the only person in the world who feels this way, but I don’t like Spotlight, Tiger’s new search feature. The files I store on my Powerbook are fairly well organized in a hierarchy of folders. Three main categories (personal, CDT, and IEF). Inside of each are sub-categories (web site name, support, misc., movies, audio, etc…). One annoying thing about Sotlight is that it automatically searches within files for whatever you are searching for. You can’t *only* search for a filename.

What might be useful would be the ability to search for Eudora messages. Spotlight seems to index the entire Eudora mailbox, instead of each message separately. So I have had to exclude my Eudora mailboxes from Spotlight, otherwise Spotlight is constantly (I live in Eudora) indexing my mailboxes.

Email from ourtreat.com has now been blocked. They have no public web site.

I have blocked email spam from nowheredirect.com. They have no web site, see ya. Or more accurately, won’t see ya.

Email from enflyer.com “the email marketing experts” has been blocked from my mail server.

I had a bunch of files I needed to rename sequentially. They were chapters from a book I’m HTMLing, so I wanted the names to be part1-chapter1.shtml, part1-chapter2.shtml, etc… up to part1-chapter13.shtml. By duplicating the file in the finder I got 13 files, but they all had an extra “copy” in the filename. Automator let me drag the files into Automator, then Automator renamed the files for me. Two minutes of experimenting with the options, then Wham! it was done. And the next time it’ll only take a few seconds since I know which options to use. Very cool. I think Automator (once it works all the way) will save me tons of time, and definitely is an improvement to my work flow. And definitely is worth the $129 price of Tiger.

Does anyone know where MySQL Administrator for OS went to? It used to be at the MySQL Administrator Downloads page, but now it’s gone.