I just paid to get email from a spammer!
I got spam earlier today, sent to the address keith dash adword at stattenfield.org except that you replace the dash with ‘-’ and the at with ‘@’, like you’d expect. I don’t want to put the address in my blog because I don’t want spammers to harvest it. That email address appears, as near as I can tell, on exactly one webpage in the world – http://www.stattenfield.org/random-characters.html where, again, random-characters.html is something else that I’m not going to put here because I don’t want anything else linked there. The only thing that links to the page with that email address on it is the ad I buy on Google in their AdWords program for my name ( go search for “Keith Stattenfield” on...
My friend won second place at the California State Fair
Specifically, in the “Non-refrigerated pastries” division. Who knew there even was a “non-refrigerated pastries” division? http://www.bigfun.org/fair/pdfs/competitions/ca_kitchen/pie_pastry_confection_results.pdf on page 6, “Peter Bickford”, San Jose, California. The pity is that now we’ll never get him to shut up.
How I find out I’ve been awarded a patent
I’ve applied for a couple patents, and two of them have actually been granted. For the one a couple days ago, a friend of mine at a conference told me that I’d been awarded a patent the same day it was granted, because he’d read an analysis-type article about it on someone’s blog: Next Wave: Apple granted a patent for an Apple NC system For the earlier patent, and also for this one, I got a USPS notification of my patent two days later. No, not from the Patent Office; not from Apple either. In fact, I don’t think I heard from Apple that my patent had been granted for about four months, when I got a notification that the $500 patent bonus would be on my next paycheck. No, I got a piece of mail offering to sell me a plaque...
The Vast stattenfield web empire!
It’s vitally important to have a lot of domain names, because then you can put up a bunch of different Web 2.0 sites on them and get the IPO money and retire rich, rich, rich! So, for reference, here’s the Stattenfield Web Empire: keithexplains.com — My access tv show. I keep plugging it, but nobody ever watches. SmartButEvil.com — Just like Magneto. Smart, but evil. Redirects to keithexplains.com • weasel2weasel.com — In the vein of B2B, B2C, C2C, P2P, etc. This site is aimed at helping the many weasels in the world ( sales weasels, marketing weasels, politician weasels ) to all work together so they’ll quit bothering the rest of us. lorettaisfinallygraduating.com — Because, actually, she did graduate. Earlier this...
There’s must be a lot of wrong-atude in wikipedia
So, I was the lead engineer for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 9.1. That meant that I have a pretty good idea about what we tried to do engineering-wise for Mac OS 9, because in a lot of ways I was one of the folks deciding what to do. A couple weeks ago, I was surfing and eventually ended up on the Mac OS 9 page at wikipedia, and noticed a couple errors. One was the statement “Still, Mac OS 9 did not include features common to modern operating systems, such as protected memory (which allegedly was implemented in beta versions of Mac OS 9.1, but pulled at Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ command” … Now, that’s a good story. It’s got a villian and everything. And, there’s certainly a bit of truth in it — there certainly were some...