Avenue Media said DirectRevenue's tactics have caused it to lose about 1 million customers--about half its installed base--and as much as $10,000 a day in revenue.

Interesting how they refer to the victims who've unwittingly downloaded their spyware as "customers."

Anyone know how to outsmart an internet form that insists on adding a backslash in front of an apostrophe?

What sort of form? Does it add the backslash when you type the apostrophe? Or when the form reloads after you've entered stuff?

If it's the latter... then it's a bug in the display of the page you're on, but whatever you entered should be OK.

Databases such as MySQL will add a backslash to "escape" an apostrophe to avoid confusion with the apostrophes that are used to delineate the beginning and end of a field. (Otherwise, if you enter "Bob's Drive In" it would be stored as 'Bob's Drive In' and the software would think it should just be 'Bob') When the saved data is presented to the user the backslash should be stripped out by the code of the page you're on, but it's still stored with the backslash.

eta: but if you have to resubmit the form, you should still take the backslash out.

eta2: gotta run....

It is the latter. Okay, I'll submit it as is.

Free Tivos

waaah! i want one. why can't they be doing that here?

NYT comparison between iPod Mini and its competitors. [link]

The gist? iPod Mini is more expensive and has less capacity, but the overall user experience is far better. OK, that's not really news, but I posted this in case someone was considering an iPod Mini alternative....

iPod has some of the most viral marketing.

Does anyone know how I can find a list of sites blocked by NetNanny? Apparently they've started blocking provocateuse.com.

iPod has some of the most viral marketing.

So I'm a viral marketer. Cool!

ita, see here. [link]

Ironically, that page is blocked by Websense. What's it say?