Charles on… anything that comes along

The Independent magazine did a special on technology; I wrote a profile of Steve Jobs. Meh.

I’d have to say that I think Katy Guest’s piece on Living in the past (ie not using anything invented beyond 1959) is great - quite an intellectual challenge, that - and the things that people can’t live without is really interesting too.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• My review of "iCon" - the latest biography of Steve Jobs (20 May 2005; score: 67.89%)
• The dramatic news from the Apple Expo: Phil Schiller is *funny*! (31 August 2004; score: 51.93%)
• Two links just to prove that technology isn't good or bad... (11 July 2005; score: 49.9%)

Here’s what Spam Karma is telling me about how much it’s caught since I installed it on Sept 26 (that’s just over a month ago):

• Total Spam Caught: 2019 (average karma: -254.08)
• Total Comments Approved: 151 (average karma: 8.74)
• Total Comments Moderated: 17

And in that period there have been 150 real comments, and 1 (count it!) comment that slipped through - a “free iPod” site advert that was manually posted.

Hmm, 2020 spams and 150 real comments. Spam outweighs real people just as in email.

These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
• Spam: the beast is in the numbers (6 March 2006; score: 96.95%)
• Spam catcher updated, which I hope will solve problems with nice people being unable to pass comment (26 September 2005; score: 86.51%)
• Seeing too much of this already: spam with the captcha filled. By humans. (17 November 2006; score: 65.54%)