Monthly Archives: January 2003

CNET Radio goes off the air

By danieldyl | Published: January 31, 2003

CNET Radio (910 AM KNEW) went off the airwaves today. I only started listening to it back in November when I began carpooling with my brother-in-law Ron. The station, with its high-tech news and talk format, was a welcome addition to my radio dial repertoire. CNET Radio, I hardly knew you.

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Michelle Branch/Vanessa Carlton

By danieldyl | Published: January 31, 2003

I’m not the only one who confuses one for the other. This guy tries to prove Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton are one and the same person.
Delving deeper into Generation Y territory, doesn’t Avril Lavigne look like a younger, shorter (she’s 5′1″) Nicole Kidman?

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“E-Mails” or “E-Mail Messages”?

By danieldyl | Published: January 30, 2003

Why do we say “I received several e-mails today?” We don’t say “I received several mails today,” we say “I received several pieces of mail today.” Personally I prefer “e-mail messages” over “e-mails.” Where is a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style when you need one?
Update: Oh never mind, I found the proper usage [...]

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Spam at Yahoo! Mail

By danieldyl | Published: January 30, 2003

I hardly use my Yahoo! e-mail account. It’s really only there to be used as a legit addy to give away when having to register something at any given website.
Lately, the only reason I find myself visiting my Yahoo! web mail account is having to do the arduous task of weeding out spam from [...]

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Software Piracy and Bombs

By danieldyl | Published: January 28, 2003

A post over at brownpau reminded me of an article I read a couple of weeks ago on Philippine software piracy. Now if the bomb incident coincided with the U.S. trade official’s visit to Virra Mall, we would have had an international incident in our hands.
An attempt to defuse a bomb in another part [...]

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