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Some people will do anything to get attention. One of the cases that popped up the last couple of days is where a church hands out iTunes for attending. The Church by the Glades in Florida has seminars called "i", all about "Living in a self absorbed world". Now that's fine, but I still believe that if you have no audience, apparently whatever you have to say is of no importance. The church of course can't accept this, so they try to lure you into their seminars by handing out iTunes vouchers.

The church is no fool though - they had a billboard up in january saying ""The Bare Naked Truth on Sex," and it drove 50,000 hits to their website. That might have been only pornaddicts checking the link though...

Their site is here. They seem to be, at least, innovative.
Source : Palmbeachpost

According to this article in E-Commerce Times, users only spend one third of their time online to send email. Most of the remaining 70% is consumed by reading. The only thing really interesting about the report that was created on the subject is the fact that users start to turn to the internet for information they used to gather offline.

I noticed a lot of people very close to me have no clue on how to use the internet to search for things - they don't believe they could find the info they're looking for, so they don't bother. As a result, they often come up empty handed or with the wrong information, which sometimes leads to overpaying products or services. I realized that I might be a little ahead of some.

During the same period as the explosion in online content, online messaging has seen a trend toward efficiency, according to the association. Much more communication between individual Internet users happens in the form of instant messaging (IM) now than in 2003.

Now that's something I did expect - the ways we communicate are changing, and the report shows it clearly.

LAX, LA's airport caused big trouble for 17,000 passengers last week, due to computer malfunction. What happened ? One single computer inside the customs office crashed. The networkcard of that computer caused a domino effect on other systems in it's range.

U.S. Customs officials say the card - - which allows computers to connect to a local area network - experienced a partial failure around 12:50 p.m. Saturday that had a domino effect with other computer network cards.(CBS)

After the computer came backup one day later, it experienced an outage again that lasted for 80 minutes. This time it was due to power supply failures.

It seems to me this is due to poor design. When you design your network, you should think about these scenarios, as a lot of things can easily be prevented.

The HotLan Trojan is the latest development of an industry that is apparantly worth a lot of money. Recently it was reported that the captcha system had been cracked, and aparently that has been done by the creators of the HotLan Trojan. The trojan was able to setup more than 500,000 hotmail accounts and over 40,000 gmail accounts. The technology behind it is advanced. The CAPTCHA image is sent to a server which deciphers is and sends the deciphered string back to the form where it gets filled in the right field.

A spokesperson from BitDefender Anti-Virus Lab says that gmail accounts usually get blocked within 4 days. I wonder how many accounts can be created by the trojan in 4 days though - this could become a race against time, or, as the dutch say "bringing water to the ocean". I can't help but conclude that the spam business is a very profitable business.