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In the inbox today.  Notice the use of BOA actual images.  FireFox and IE did recognize this as a phishing site.  It might be good for email to start checking links against known Phishers.  It never hurts to be more preemptive.

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Yesterday and today I have seen this search come through from yahoo. "what does this quote mean "There are 10 kinds of people in this world - those who understand binary and those who don’t"" 

I am not sure why my site pulls up but its funny since who ever is running this search falls in toe the latter half of people.  If you don't know Binary 10 is two.

If you blog, you should probably read this.   50% of US adults have an eight-grade reading level.  If the article is correct that most web content is written at a 12 grade reading level, forget the Digital divide we still have a core Literacy issue that we need to address.  Although I do wonder if the medium is somewhat responsible for this.  When i read content on the web its very much word by word( this is how we are now taught to read in the US education system.) but when i read print i can speed read.  its much more difficult to read fast with comprehension on the monitor.  I think it may be the font and leading.

More interesting statistics

Correctional Education Facts

Reading Facts

Via Broker Universe

American Express has announced a new program enabling members to make monthly home mortgage payments on the American Express card. American Home Mortgage Corp. will be the first lender to offer the Express Rewards Mortgage program for eligible prime loans, AmEx said. Cardmembers with qualifying loans with American Home will pay a one-time fee of $395 to the lender for enrollment in the program at closing. American Express said its research had indicated that members "overwhelmingly cited" monthly mortgage payments as "an ideal opportunity" to use the American Express card. The company can be found online at http://www.americanexpress.com.

I quite like the idea of collecting bonus points and cash back awards off of my mortgage payment.  It is after all the largest bill most of us get every month.  Sadly for those who get mortgages to reduce credit card debt, this would be like giving enabling a heroin addict...

Brad Abrams presents a very nice post on a new feature in Orcas Beta1 .Net Client Application Services which basically allows you to use your ASP.Net Application from a client application.  I thought the idea was interesting but after watching the Microsoft Webcast It was difficult to tell how practical this will be.  It pretty constant to have a web app and smart client solution the two do kind of go hand in hand.  This should provide a nice trick for your developer bag but right now I think your solution would have to be very vanilla for it to work well(still the whole need the Internet thing).  time I am sure will tell.

hmm the bank of PayPal.  check out the full story

 4GuysFromRolla is offering a nice walk through of getting up and debugging with SQL 2005  using the Visual Studio IDE.

Debugging SQL Server 2005 Stored Procedures in Visual Studio

I found an interesting load generation tool on IIS.net defiantly worth a look

Features

• HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 capable
• Supports IPv6
• Multithreaded Support
• Supports generating stress from multiple machines
• Extensible through C plug-in DLLs
• Supports Performance Counter integration
• Measures throughput and response time
• Supports SSL requests
• NTLM Authentication request support
• Easily supports testing thousand of concurrent users

Benefits

• Very light weight (low hardware requirements)
• Extensible to handle any aspect of the HTTP request or response
• Allows remote collection of perfmon data and registry

Down Load

LINQ to XML

Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)