“This is now a no-win situation because someone made a huge error that could cost the election. This isn’t rocket science, it’s broadcasting.” Dvorak strikes again.
minibb Abandons GPL
The miniBB authors are moving away from the GPL. This is what we use for our support forums. Perhaps now would be a good time to release my version.
Search Patents
Does Yahoo have a patent on search ads? Reading over it looks like it covers paid inclusion, not text-ads like Google has.
Kevin on MT
Help SpamAssassin
SpamAssassin 3
I hit some bumps setting the new SpamAssassin up but now that it’s running I’m amazed. I was getting to the point again where a few spams were getting through every day, and that number seems to have been going up, but since installing 3.0 I haven’t seen a single spam in my inbox. The Bayesian identification seems a lot faster and more accurate. Because of a procmail typo this morning about a dozen emails got lost, so if you think one of those may have been you please re-send.
October
Welcome to October. I said last month that big things were happening in September, and they did. What’s killing me is I can’t talk about them yet.
Sims 2
I am now a character in a Sims game. Update: Here’s the entire category, which includes pictures.
Debate Facts
Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates, timely. Hat tip: Haughey.
Writer’s Block
Baby Zeldman
Letter to Steve
Open Letter to Steve Jobs by Aswath Rao.
Gallery: 9-29-2004
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H-Town Bloggers
Last week I went out to the H-Town blogs happy hour at Onion Creek, an excellent coffee place in the Heights. I met Elaine, Kathy, Ted, Cody, Lauren, and Kelly — all great folks. Here’s a photo of the ragtag crew.
OS X Loves Memory
Thanks to the fine people at Buffalo Technology my Powerbook is now equipped with the maximum 1.25 GB of memory. The difference is amazing, like night and day. My efforts to completely switch my everyday tasks to the Mac have been hindered by the lower screen resolution of the 12″ and the sluggish performance. The screen size has pretty much become a non-issue with some monitors I inherited and Synergy, I assumed the performance problems were due to it just having a slower processor, but all my Mac friends assured me that OS X just needed memory to breathe. They were right. I want to open every program on the system just to watch it.
Two to Go
Four million down, two to go.
Bushisms
Reader Adrian Loudermilk wrote in that he
produced a DVD of all the Bushisms you’ve heard of. Like Bush or not, I bet this is pretty funny.
Contact Spam
My contact form, which sends mail to a whitelisted address so I don’t miss any messages, is getting absolutely hammered by spambots. They’re not hitting my comments and the contact form is something I wrote from scratch, but it has received over 200 spams in the past hour. The more they do stupid stuff like this the more data I have to block them in the future.
Gallery: 9-28-2004
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Flickr and WP
Son writes in that WordPress is listed on the front page of Flickr. Though I don’t use it myself for a few reasons, Flickr constantly wows me with its features, architecture, and innovation. I’m watching the service as it evolves out of beta with interest. Also one of their developers, Cal, has been helping out with WP a bit lately.