Daily Archive for November 21st, 2006

Games for kids (and you)

I read about this on the Office Tips and Hints Blog

SchoolHistory.co.uk - online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes and links.

In particular, as it mentions, the site has a games section with over 200 topics cover over 6,000 questions. Although the site is based in the UK, the questions would be appropriate for people around the world. Check it out!

101 Fabulous Freebies

Regular reader Pat send in a link to a list from PC World magazine with links to 101 software/Internet freebies. There are links to freeware utilties, web-based email, fun web sites, and more. Check it out!

‘Tis the season to send spam

From TechRepublic:

In addition to plenty of turkey, a record amount of spam will be served up this holiday season.

Mass e-mailers traditionally bump up their activity as the year winds down. But this year, the amount of junk messages could be unprecedented, companies that make spam-busting tools say. And senders of unsolicited ads are already celebrating the close of the harvest season and the approach of Christmas.

“Just as legitimate vendors began stocking their shelves with holiday decor and gifts before Halloween, spammers started sending spam messages tailored to the holiday gift-giving season earlier this year,” said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management at Barracuda Networks, a Mountain View, Calif., maker of security appliances.

In October, 63 billion junk messages were sent daily, on average, compared with 31 billion a year ago, according to data from IronPort Systems.

The race to create a ’smart’ Google

From Fortune (via CNN/Money):

Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer’s heaven.