I have, however, fallen behind sufficiently on passing along notices about those posts (you see, if I write there then tell y'all here that you can catch up with me in those, it's almost like posting here) that it got my attention (wasn't I "all caught up" just days ago?) and so, here I am. In fact, I'm here with two things to point you to ... first of all is a "book feature". Of course, you see my reviews before anybody else (I post them here first, then to btripp-books, then to various Ning sites), so in theory you know what I've said already.
In this case I paired up two books about setting up on-line business, one that I'd just finished and on that I had sitting around for ages waiting for me to get to. I was pleased, actually, to have an excuse to get that one reviewed. I have now just one "waiting for review" book that's not new.
I've been meaning to do a bit of a rant in here ... and I don't know if other people are having this "problem". I get, in my non-gmail account fifty to a hundred spam messages per day. Most very similarly formatted, and "technically" conforming to the "CAN-SPAM" regulations in that they have what purports to be a mailing address (one of a handful of P.O. boxes), and an "opt out" link (neglecting, of course, the fact that I never opted in with an "account", "subscription", or "profile"). The company or companies doing this, however, have a rather nasty feint in play, as the addresses all go off to different domains ... every damn e-mail has a different domain, and requires a separate effort to "opt out". Obviously, these scumbags are grabbing domains that have expired (there's a wide array of things that look like somebody forgot to renew), and setting them up as the e-mail source for these "offers". For a while there, I was making the effort to "opt out" but it seemed that Hydra-like, for every opt-out, five more new spams would show up in its place. Makes me NUTS.
ThunderBird successfully labels all of these as spam ... I just wish it would get rid of them the way that Gmail does (of course, the catch there is that TB's filters frequently will tag something non-spam as spam, and at least with my having to manually delete these, I can catch those!). Oddly, this has just started up recently ... and I can't really point to what's causing all this stuff to make it through to my in-box ... anybody else having similar problems?