Everyone shouts about their winners, their great linkbaiters, their mass debaters, the posts that got the most comments, the one that crashed Digg, but I thought I’d do an end of year round up of the Bottom 5 posts on Sciencetext.com. Those posts that received the fewest hits. So coming in at #5 with What [...]

Are you a spammer? Probably not, but you might think so if you’ve checked the headers of some of your bounced emails recently. I’ve had half a dozen messages come back as undeliverable with the following error: :fail: Domain mymailserver.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (50) allowed. Message discarded. They were perfectly legitimate [...]

These days everyone and their dog is on the net, tweeting and twittering, plurking and powncing, uploading their status to Facebook and hotlinking everyone else’s images on MySpace. And, of course, sending masses of email back and forth. It’s a wonder we can cope with all these stray electrons. It’s twenty years ago in January [...]

I just got a Windows XP bluescreen of death (BSOD) on my laptop, first one ever, apart from the self-inflicted SATA enabled one after an reinstall that didn’t bring with it the SATA drivers for my SATA hard drive. So, there were three new devices connected when it crashed and forced a powerdown – my [...]