Posted in web on January 10th, 2008 No Comments »
This is, I must say, very clever. In my latest round of inbound spam, I’ve noticed that some senders have begun sending valid links to http://google.com/ in their messages. The technique they’re using is to obfuscate a target URL inside a Google “I’m feeling lucky” query: this means that the domain near the left of [...]
Posted in web on August 11th, 2007 5 Comments »
I’ve had an account on del.icio.us for several years, but I only started using it heavily perhaps a year ago. While it’s a wonderful site in many respects, I’ve been surprised and disappointed by what’s happened since Yahoo acquired the company: nothing at all.
Clearly, Yahoo has had no idea what to do with their acquisition: [...]
Posted in haskell, web on January 31st, 2007 3 Comments »
Even though I wrote my Haskell blog helper
tool
purely for my own use, I don’t want to store hard-coded strings in it,
lest my username and password escape into the wild.
This suggests that I need a small config file of some kind. I’m going
to walk through the parser I wrote for this config file, not as [...]
Posted in haskell, web on January 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
Since I started using WordPress to host my blog, I’ve generally been
fairly pleased with it. Its killer feature has to be Akismet, the
built-in spam filter. Akismet has so far killed over 18,000 spam
comments for me, or roughly 300 per day in the two months since I
switched from Blosxom to WordPress. Perhaps one [...]
Posted in open source, web on December 14th, 2006 1 Comment »
If you use IRC to collaborate on a software project, chances are you’ve come across pastebin.com, a site where you can post snippets of code, program output, patches, and the like, and then give out the URL of the snippet to other people in the channel you’re working in. A similar site is paste.lisp.org, which [...]