Throwaway Email Addresses

Mailinator seems a nice service for disposable email addresses. Use an @mailinator.com email address, and view the received emails on the web. Note that there is no privacy for received email.

I’ve used a service like this in the past. It can be useful for situations where you need a single email from someone and don’t want your real address being harvested.


Spam This, Please

John McDonnell says he wants to get as much spam as possible to the email address . I’m assisting by putting it on a web page. Feel free to do the same.

All email sent there will by dumped to http://microb.us/info.php.


Rusalka

C.J. Cherryh is a very good author. She writes very believable characters, and those in Rusalka are no exception. Each has his own reasons for his actions, and no one completely understands the others. In other words, standard Cherryh. :) I quite enjoyed the book, and the words describing the climax, especially, echoed in my head when I read them.

I’d certainly recommend this one to others for reading.


Website Code

Just as reference for later perusal:

  • In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement:  nice description of a technique for adding images to a website without the <img> tag and with better underlying content for image-incapable browsers.  Requires CSS.
  • css Zen Garden: looks like this has some nice examples of CSS use.  Linked from the above article.
  • Web design postcards: Collection of little snippets of tips and such for web design.  Need to go and read through them.

Princess Prince

Princess Prince is a very amusing shoujo manga. In the kingdom of Gemstone, the king is father to twins: a princess and a prince. Prince Matthew is every inch the bishounen and all the girls adore him. Princess Lori is actually Prince Lawrence, but has been raised as a girl due to a prophecy made at the twins’ birth.

Princess Lori and another girl have fallen for each other, but she doesn’t know the Princess’s true nature. And Brandon Walsh, a thief sent to the kingdom, has decided that Prince Matthew is really a girl and has fallen for him.

Naturally, many complications develop, and the book is a very entertaining read.