Category: Random Thought

I was having problems sending email via my hosting account. I sent the following question to cablevision via their live chat: Howard Greenstein: I am having trouble sending email via my paid-for hosting domain. It seems to be blocked. Is optoline blocking the outgoing SMTP email port? Cablevision: Welcome to Cablevision, Howard Greenstein! There is…

I’m at a workshop put on by GivingSpace.org, Tom Munneke’s group. Many interesting people are here, some of whom don’t even have easy URLs (Hi Iz). Anyway, one of the participants is Ethan Zohn, AKA as he freely admits, as “Ethan From Survivor.” Ethan won Survivor:Africa, as any Google search can tell you. He’s also…

Seems some spammer somewhere has hijacked my public AT howardgreenstein dot com email and is using it as the return address for spams. I’m getting huge numbers of bouncebacks. I know my PCs are not sending the mails. I assume there is absolutely nothing I can do about this. Welcome to the brave new world.

Between one of the Kerry kids saying she knows all 6’4″ of her dad (ew) and Kerry saluting and saying he’s “Reporting for Duty,” I’m not feeling the love tonight.

Caught my old friend and Technorati founder David Sifry on CNN tonight. He had only a few second to comment, and though a little nervous, I think he did amazingly well. Let’s hope they let him make some really intelligent remarks soon, as we know he’s capable of doing so. Check the Technorati Politics site…