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Some suggestions for registration confirmation emails

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 27, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

As a practical matter, I think that registration confirmation emailshould have at least three characteristics:

it should always be initiated by that user; there should be none ofthe invite-your-friends features that are beloved by marketers.
( Yes, I'm completely serious about this .)
it should not have any user-entered text whatsoever. Any userentered text will be exploited by spammers ,and you don't have any need for it anyways.
it should be devoid of marketing material in general.

砂丘之女

silencemo | Sept. 26, 2009, 11:45 a.m. | Original

這是敕使河原宏1964年拍的黑白电影，改編自安部公房的小說《砂丘之女》。

小說本身充滿存在主義的色彩，電影幾乎跟足原著拍攝，整體改動不大，但拍出了沙漠的荒涼和故事的荒謬，多場畫面震撼人心，構圖優美，導演

How our 'plug in and go' laptop network DHCP portal works

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 26, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

As I mentioned in the last entry , wehave an internal subnet for laptops and other generic user machines.For various reasons, we require machines on this subnet to be registeredso that we can identify who is (theoretically) responsible for them.One of the ways that people can do this is with a 'plug in and go'registration portal; you plug in, try to go somewhere, and you windup on a simple registration web page instead.

Behind the scenes, it works like this:

你是政治冷感的人嗎？

silencemo | Sept. 25, 2009, 5:54 a.m. | Original

“雙選年”不止對政治人物是考驗，對於青少年，這一年也絕對是一場測試。

這一年我們親身見識了特首選舉是怎樣一回事，這一年我們也見證了十六個組別如何為立法會的直選議席各出奇謀，在這一年裡，這個小城的政治活動

自我檢討

silencemo | Sept. 25, 2009, 2:23 a.m. | Original

最近我這個blog是有點古怪，我必須好好檢討自己所犯下的錯誤……

錯誤之一，在facebook太濫交。通常見到對方的朋友名單內有我相熟的朋友，我就會add，可能當中有人同我有血海深仇（我話可能咋），我都照當對方係朋友，於是我在

How our DHCP registration portal redirections work

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 25, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Like other places, we have an automatic DHCP registration portal (to usethe term I've heard). In the abstract, you plug your new laptop intoour laptop network, try to visit some website, and instead wind up ona registration web page. You supply your local login and password, themachine you're using is registered as yours, and then you can go on toget Internet access.

(Some registration portals will automatically send you on to whateverwebsite you were trying to visit.