Did they read it?
Wouldn't you like to see if email you send actually gets read? You can, provided you send it to someone that never messes with their mail client settings.
Did they read it? claims to be able to not only see if your email was viewed, but also record the duration of time the message was viewed as well as the location of the viewer.
I heard of this a few weeks ago. It didn't impress me. Spammers have been including 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent GIF images hotlinked to a server to see if you viewed their "Grow UR P3N1S... \\//!AGR4 CHEEEP!" emails. This guy lets you do the same. (didn't you always want to be like a spammer?) The Today show seemed impressed, and just had a feature on the service. Slashdot users however, were not impressed (from Sunday, 23 May).
So, here's what you do: Turn off "inline images" in outlook express, or just switch to Mozilla Thunderbird and turn off images in received email. If you use webmail like Yahoo!, you can turn inline images off as well. You should also turn of JavaScript and VBScript in your mail reader, too.
Note that images as an attachment are not a threat. They could still be something from rotten.com, so viewer beware.
Some good news.
I'm working on the website. I think it'll get a decent overhaul this weekend. I've been busy getting back into the swing of things at work, and I've been looking for apartments with Kate.
Starbucks is evil. (Willamette Week, Portland) To a lesser degree, Super Wawa's are.
Oops, I graduated.
I now have a Bachelor of Arts in Geography. It'd be much more exciting if I was done school, though. It's more realistic to think that I'm halfway done, and that this has been the easy part. I must devote myself to my classwork in order to succeed and get my masters. I'm looking forward to it. I really love Geography, at least the social-human end of it, and I think I'll have fun at Rutgers working on Planning.
Here's some planning oriented local news for you. I bring you, the rebirth of Camden County:
All from the Philadelphia Inquirer, all from last week. If you are asked to sign in, use philly@cheesesteak.com, password philly.
