There is some joker wannabe hacker pretending to me and asking others for sensitive information. Here are some tell-tale signs: IMing from a misspelled version of my IM addresses, like “saxmat02”; emailing from a gmail account with my name; using bad English (more than I normally do); asking for passwords, etc. These are all things I’d never do. If you ever have any doubt that the person you’re talking to might not be me, just call me on my cell or use one of the other contact methods here.
Category Archives: Personal
NYC Valentine
In New York for Valentine’s Day.
Mathematics of Full-text
Dissecting MySQL fulltext indexing and the mathematics behind it.
Hindsights
Guy Kawasaki on hindsights, a great non-tech read for everybody.
Ping-O-Scratch
It is amazing Ping-O-Matic has handled as much traffic as it has thus far, but it really wasn’t conceived with these levels even imagined. It hasn’t had a good update since it was doing 20-30 reqs/second. Time to rip it out and start from the ground up. I’ll blog about it again when the new system is ready.
Happy New Year
Happy new year everybody!
Taken on the way to Times Square in New York City.
Northen Voices
I’ll be speaking at the Northern Voices conference in a few months. Will be my first time in Canada.
One Million Spam Blocked
Tired/Wired
Tired: Being hired by Yahoo. Wired: Being bought by Yahoo.
XFN’s Birthday
Akismet in Java
Akismet Java API, by David Czarnecki (the author of the excellent Blojsom). So cool!
Roles and Capabilities
What’s New in 2.0: Roles and Capabilities. I’m using the new bookmarklet to post this, it rocks.
Sister Moon
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun, my hunger for her explains everything I’ve done. Herbie Hancock and Sting.
Worth 200 Million
Are These People Really Worth $200 Million? What year was this written in? Anyone remember theglobe.com? 🙂
Geekstar
My business card apparently got me in this geekstar list. Geekstar is undefined in the urban dictionary.
2.0 Bingo
Web 2.0 bingo, play it on your next conference call.
Free Windows FTP
Filezilla is a great little free and open source FTP for Windows. Not-terrible UI and SFTP are all I really need.
Mezzoblue Reformats
Ward on Creativity
Ward Cunningham on the Crucible of Creativity, a good read for Codex contributors as well.