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2004-05-19»
do I have the right to give your mail to Google?»
Lee, NTK's chief moral compass, wonders
about mail he sends that ends up with a third-party *cough Gmail
cough*. He suggests that if Google was trying to be truly not evil, it should
perhaps work on a "Disposition-Notification" header that would optionally the
original sender know what's happening to their mail.
This reminds me of mails from Boogah, who is organising Layer One, and whose .sig reads, in
part.
this email is: [x] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private
My second thought, which is playing on me a lot these days, is how openness
is viral. When one lives or works with someone who is more open or free with
their own personal information, you find yourself become less able to
maintain your own privacy. Your information is part of their information.
How can we maintain high levels of privacy - or indeed, maintain high
levels of honesty - when our associates disagree on those levels?
This isn't a new problem, of course. But something is changing. I have
friends who dive out of the way of cameras to protect their privacy when they
are with me. The time when there is somewhere to dive might end someday.
(In the meanwhile, if you send me something with X-No-Archive: in the
headers, it won't get forwarded to my Gmail account).
from a new revised Pratimoksha (Buddhist Monastic Code)»
"A revised version of the Pratimoksha (Buddhist Monastic Code) was released on
Monday March 31, 2003 in Seoul, Korea, which is one of the Mahayana Buddhist
countries of Asia. This version has been compiled by the venerable Thich Nhat
Hanh in the International Buddhist Practice Center called Plum Village in
France. Thich Nhat Hanh and his monastic delegation are currently on a
teaching tour in this country."
44. A bhikshu who has his private e-mail account with the result that he
spends an inordinate amount of time in making unnecessary communications
or communications which foster attachment commits an offence for which he
must express regret.
...
46. A bhikshu who plays electronic games including those on the computer,
commits an offence for which he must express regret.
So many new sins, so many regrets.
2004-05-18»
oversubscribers»
Let's see if this works. I'm writing a small piece for the New Scientist on
RSS, and I wanted to chat with people who read more than 400 RSS feeds daily.
So - Robert Scoble? Frank Arrigo? Jay McCarthy? George Kelly? Phil Wolff? Are
you guys really reading this, along with hundreds
of others? Would you like to talk briefly about it today? Get in touch!
gmail»
So here's what I'm doing with my gmail account: I've set the filters to
archive everything as soon as it comes in, and I'm now forwarding all my mail
to it. So it's not so much a mail reader, as google for my mail archive.
That's something I've been after for a while.
our lady of the postponement»
My favourite emails these days are the ones from a lady reporting
transmissions from the Virgin Mary who prophesies (sometimes with her son,
Jesus) really quite specifically about the dangers of flag-burning, the Unholy
Ray, and the devilish communist threat of Russia.
Do not be deceived, My children, Russia is not free. It is a cosmetic act
to delude you. Lenin and Stalin used the same tactics, My children. Why do
you not learn from your errors? For it is their plan to subdue you, once
they get the billions that they need in aid, to bring up the economy and
buy more armaments. (Our Lady, June 18, 1992).
How sneaky is that? The cc: list for the people who get this includes loads
of bishops and cardinals. Good god, think how much crank mail you must get if
you're an bishop. And how do you write a spam filter that catches this stuff,
but wouldn't give a false positive if you actually received an email from
Jesus? I hope the Christ worked out some sort of secret sign before he
ascended, because this false prophet business is just going to get
worse and worse pre-rapture. Spam; a sign of the end-times. Mail.app for Apple
discards this stuff as junk; Spamassassin isn't so sure.
As the prophecies go, I like this one:
CHASTISEMENT DELAYED
Veronica - Our Lady said that the Chastisement has been delayed
It's sort of like a rail announcement, isn't it?
I think that will be the new open threat in our house. "Your chastisement
has been ... delayed. This time."
I'm currently delaying a fair bit of chastisement myself right now. I've
been working through a lot of the Lifehacks stuff. It was all supposed to be
very anthropological and objective, but now I realise that my position as
hyper-disorganised person peering in isn't going to work out. Mainly
because I'm currently being far too disorganised to actually get this
done.
My horrible dawning realisation is that to do lifehacks stuff justice, I'm
going to have to experiment on myself.
Our Lady of the
Postponement, have mercy on me!
petit disclaimer:
My employer has enough opinions of its own, without having to have mine too.
