LIVEdigitally

Spam is one of my favorite foods, although mother doesn’t approve. I eat Spam and eggs, with rice, in sandwiches, and with green eggs and ham, Spam I am. I also hate spam. The email kind of spam give me nausea and diarrhea of the inbox. Spam emails that is.

Where did they get my email address? No, I don’t want cheap software, pharmaceuticals, a larger male member, or a cheap wristwatch as a novelty. I just want the emails that are from people I know to occupy my inbox.

It looks like Spam (food) started in US, and now spam (those darned emails) are coming from Asia. Americans are trying to correlate some sort of anti-spam effort, but it seems tough to get rid of. And let’s mention that spam is more than the above mentioned marketing emails. Spam is heavily related to phishing and hacking.

The spam thing is getting out of hand if you ask me. A good name is being dragged through the dirt, stepped on, spit, chopped, chewed and spit out. Find out more of what’s going on with this Asian-spam at businessweek.com.

I guess I’m on a mobile kick lately. Writing about Mr. Jain’s commuting vlog (below) made me remember this piece of news I meant to get up yesterday. The peeps at Make:Blog posted a nice do-it-yourself (DIY) guide to turning your PowerBook into a WiFi access point, in this case using Verizon’s EVDO wireless access card (What’s EVDO, you ask? It’s a new type of wireless broadband that uses cellular telephone networks, letting you get online without keeping you tethered to a wireless hotspot). Since Verizon recently released Mac-compatible drivers for their EVDO cards, no real hacking is involved, making this little project even easier.

No World of Warcraft in the car, people (Hands at 10 and 2! C’mon!), but Skype seems like a viable alternative, doesn’t it? I still can’t get around the inherent irony associated with using a cellular phone network to connect to the internet and make VOIP calls, but hey, whatever does it for you.

This is awesome – Ravi Jain set a camera up in his car and records his 30-minute drive to and from work each day; from that footage and has decided to turn the video into a show to be posted every Friday, dubbed DriveTime. Jain lives in the Boston suburb of Jamaica Plain and commutes to nearby Allston (those familiar with Boston can check his route map here). This got my brain immediately thinking: I live nearby…I think Mr. Jain needs a weekly tech segment! Maybe I’ll send him an e-mail to see if we can work something out. Any thoughts, dear readers?