Links du jour: Saturday 10/13

Submitted by Merlin on October 13, 2007 - 9:47am.

Macworld: Feature: I will be smarter about how I handle e-mail - Tips on more secure email, handily graded by “Security” and “Hassle.”
Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins - This makes so much more sense to me when explained with Venn diagrams. I want Venn diagrams for everything.
TTB #25 - 09/16/07 at The Teen Tech Buzz - In which I am interviewed by my teen pals, Aaron and Austen (each of whom are younger than several coffee mugs that I regularly use)
Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Hand-code Smart Folders - “So this hint is intended to share some info about how to modify the ‘code’ in the saved search to get what you want.” I wish I could hand-code something to make Spotlight’s UI work better for me. (Did I say that out loud?)
The Ofﬁce Collar: Mind Your Own Business - Geekologie - Maybe I spend too much time in the internet’s less savory neighborhoods, but this really has the feel of “pony play” [PNSFW] to me. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing. Ofﬁces can get pretty boring. Here, have a carrot, Ol’ Paint.
41 Reasons Why Your Blog Probably Sucks - I’d make #42 “‘Writing’ naught but Digg-y list posts whose headline starts with a numeral and is followed by a plural noun.” Heck, I’d probably go ahead and just add that one reason eight more times – I mean, you know: so you can make it a nice, round, super-useful “50.” Yes, that might help countless blogs not to “probably suck.”