Delightful news!

Posted on March 29th, 2005 in funny, spam by They

Scotty Richter has filed chapter 11.

If only it would truly take.

I wonder if he’ll risk spamming after the filing takes — he wouldn’t be able to hide quickly enough next time!

New disclaimer

Posted on March 15th, 2005 in funny, say by They

Use of this advanced computing technology does not imply an endorsement of Western industrial civilization.

Privacy is important

Posted on March 12th, 2005 in awful, say, trust by They

AIM’s New Terms Of Service should give you pause.
They say that you should run gaim, and use the jabber protocol.

They are converting to wordpress

Posted on March 2nd, 2005 in new, say, sysadmin, trust by They

Since slashcode was, er, stagnating. The packages on debian (even debian-unstable) were ancient, and trying to upgrade caused a major problem with posting.

Wordpress puts out nice valid HTML, uses CSS extensively, has many fantastic plugins, and is much faster and less memory-intense. So far, they like it!

Downside? If you had an account before, it’s gone now. As are stock and zip codes. They aren’t going to be a portal anymore, but don’t worry — your information will not be sold. They still fully respect your privacy!