Notes from a curious life.

A Plan for Spam: ” (This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the new spamproof web-based mail reader we’re building to exercise Arc. An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.) I Particulary liked this comment As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the […]

The story of Brent Townshend who is going to collect over $55m for the patent that increased modem speeds from 36K to 56K. One patent that proved very worthwhile. Wonder what is bill for legal costs came to? InfoWorld: Analog Devices settles lawsuit over modem technology: December 02, 2003: By : Telecommunications: “lawsuit over modem […]

Wow this is just amazing set myself with a photo weblog herePhlog – geofonesit just took a few minutes. I can now post there direct from my treo.

Lovely story here about Neil Bush (Dubyas younger brother) as detailed in his divorce. Just love how he was to be paid $2million from a Chinese semiconductor company. In questioning by his exs lawyer Brown. You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?” asked Brown. “That’s correct,” Bush, 48, responded in the March […]

Here is reply from ICSTIS regarding complaints about SMS spam:- Dear Sir or Madam Unsolicited text message marketing I am writing in response to your complaint about unsolicited text messaging. ICSTIS supervises both the content and advertising for premium rate services. ICSTIS develops and applies a Code of Practice to the companies which operate premium […]