This week’s Loose Wire column is about Wikipedia: Wouldn’t it be great if there was a place on the Internet where educated folk pooled their knowledge for nothing, conscientiously building up a huge, orderly and free database on subjects as varied as wind gradients and the yellow-wattled lapwing? Actually, it’s already happened. It’s an on-line… Read More »
The problem with spam filters that work on the server level is that you end up missing literary gems. I was pretty excited when I found out a few weeks back that spammers were using literary works in their subject fields. I wrote a few weeks back in the Far Eastern Economic Review (sorry, subscription only;… Read More »
For those readers of The Wall Street Journal Europe: I’m afraid the column is no longer running in the WSJE because of a policy of standardizing some pages so they mirror the U.S. edition. For those readers of the column there, I’m sorry. I enjoyed receiving emails from readers in Europe and had hoped to… Read More »
Further to my column this week about protecting your computer in the Far Eastern Economic Review, (subscription required), here as promised is the full email from Brian Johnson of Centerbeam. It’s an excellent primer. Jeremy, thanks for the invitation to send you something about protecting computers viruses, worms and other exploits. I?I’ve spent some… Read More »
Loose Wire — Frustrated Writers, Take Note: This Palm-powered, plain-vanilla, word-producing machine has none of the bells and whistles of other computers and won’t break your back or the bank — meaning more time for haiku By Jeremy Wagstaff from the 26 June 2003 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review (c) 2003, Dow Jones… Read More »