Posted on Wed, Jan. 22, 2003 Julia Keller: Chicago Tribune Halftime. Your football team is behind – way, way behind – and there’s a feeling in the locker room of heavy, clotted gloom. Everyone slouches on the floor against lockers and benches. Doom-induced lethargy pervades the place. Even the towels are too limp to swat […]
Keynote Address to Growing Australia Online Annual Conference of Netalert 2002 Tuesday 3 December 2002 Delivered by: Chris Pearce MP Federal Member for Aston Secretary, Government Policy Committee on Communications, IT and the Arts I’d like to use this opportunity to talk about some big-picture issues. Indeed, that is what this conference is all about-the […]
Nigerian Scam Letters, or 419’s, appear in e-mail boxes all over the world. They appear on fax machines, and are delivered by the postman. They offer opportunity, adventure, travel, and lots and lots of money. These popular schemes are called “Nigerian” because that is where they originated, namely in the former capitol city of Lagos. […]
by Daniel Brandt August 2002 By 1998, the dot-com gold rush was in full swing. Web search engines had been around since 1995, and had been immediately touted by high-tech pundits (and Forbes magazine) as one more element in the magical mix that would make us all rich. Such innovations meant nothing less than the […]
Dear Lord, Every single evening As I’m lying here in bed, This tiny little Prayer Keeps running through my head. God bless all my family Wherever they may be, Keep them warm and safe from harm For they’re so close to me. And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could do, […]
10th October 2002 From a knowledgeable Netfriend: The Bugbear virus doing the rounds this past week or so carries its own mailing protocol. It picks a mail address from the infected computer’s address list, and part of a message from them, and then sends itself to everyone in the mailing list. The ‘from’ in the […]
(EP News) November 7, 2002 A Scandinavian Christian group is translating parts of Scripture in the most up-to-date language of young Norwegians: condensed text messages for cell phones. “We hope to inspire increased Bible use, so this is a way in with young people,” said Anders Torvill Bjorvand of Oslo’s GospelSpeak Internet site. Nearly every […]
Dear News Group Poster, Recently, I did an email scan in the news group where you do you posting. (This is where I got you email address from.) I wanted to do a study on how many people use a fake email address. The results are as fallows. I scanned in 1426 unique email address. […]
RECENT (June 2002) REPORT ON U.S. USE OF INTERNET FOR RELIGION 28 million Americans have used the Internet to get religious and spiritual information and connect with others on their faith journeys. We call them “Religion Surfers”. 25% of Internet users have gotten religious or spiritual information online at one point or another. This is […]
USING THE WEB FOR ADVOCACY There are several groups which are the concern of John Mark Ministries – pastors and expastors (John Mark Ministries website), pastors’ wives (priscillasfriends.org website), persecuted Christians (newsgroups and the JMM website), and advocacy for one of my clients who’s been ‘taken to the cleaners’ by a couple of governments in […]