Archive for January, 2009

Unbelievable Mental Lapse
Monday, January 26th, 2009

I receive a fair bit of misaddressed mail at my gmail.com addresses. Sometimes it is the result of a typo on the part of the sender. But with surprising frequency it is the result of a real person accidentally entering my email address into a web form instead of their own. I’ve seen shipping confirmations, [...]

Sampling Twitter
Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Update: I had made a mistake in gathering the samples and took this post down temporarily to fetch new data. A typo I made in one of my scripts radically under-counted the number of friends each account had. Mea culpa, and the lesson I learned is that if a number seems counter-intuitive, then it likely [...]