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Kantor on One-time Emails

Jan

5

2004

One-Time-Use E-Mail Addresses – You sign up with a address company (e.g., “NoSpam.com”) that you give your real address to. When you need to provide a valid e-mail address on a site, you click a button and NoSpam would instantly generate an address — maybe “x43gti@akantor.nospam.com.” Ugly? Yeah. But who cares? You could specify how ...

New Years Resolutions

Jan

4

2004

Many people have this year have said that they don’t seem to have New Year’s resolutions. “What’s the point if I’m not going to stick with them?” Don’t you feel excessively cynical saying something like that? It seems like the value of resolutions isn’t the success in following them, but the commitment to the process ...

Criminals Trip Up

Jan

2

2004

“(extlink)By hook or by crook, criminals get tripped up”:http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/107302654923390.xml?starledger?ncolhal – It’s been another bad year for dimwitted criminals throughout the world. They attempted some audacious capers only to be caught through their own stupidity. Jail isn’t good enough for them. Judges should assign them to insane asylums for their own safety. [the “(extlink)Star Ledger”:http://www.nj.com/starledger ]

New CSS Site Design

Jan

2

2004

The frontpage has been redone into a new design using CSS to position the sidebars. There’s a few bugs to work out (particularly in Internet Explorer) but hopefully they’ll get worked out in a few days and then I’ll extend the design to the rest of the site.

NAFTA Effects

Dec

30

2003

A decade later, a tempered vision of NAFTA – Industrial space that was once hotter than a jalapeño pepper is cooling as companies that flocked to Mexico in the 1990s are looking to China, Honduras, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere for lower wages and better all-around conditions. Overall, the number of jobs in Mexico’s so-called maquiladora ...