OK, I’ve been “on the ‘net” since 1994 and I’ve seen many, many strange things. Nowadays, I don’t get surprised that often. Today I stumbled upon this site: Crying While Eating. I have one question. No, I don’t. I have many questions, but the first one is: Why? Google often helps me when I’m at a loss, but this time I only found a reference to a movie called “On again - Off again”. The review talks about “…and Bert Wheeler’s re-creation of his classic “crying while eating” vaudeville routine.“. I don’t feel particularly enlightened yet.
RSS feeds, or “feeds” for short, is currently very hot. It took me a while to get hooked, but the last year or so, I’ve been following about 10 feeds. It’s an excellent way of being lazy. You don’t need to visit a bunch of websites every day to see if they have been updated. You can sit comfortably in your chair and just wait for them to update and instantly get notified. OK, maybe not instantly but atleast within the hour or something like that. Now to my dilemma…
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Once upon a time, spam was something delivered in a can. Nowadays, it comes in all flavors directly delivered to your mailbox. Get a bigger/longer penis, buy cheap meds, get a university diploma etc. And lets not forget all the nice letters from Nigeria. I read somewhere that spam already constitutes over 50% of all email traffic on the internet. That’s just wrong. On my own mailserver I’ve used SpamAssassin since day 1. It’s a really nice server-side filter for guessing which emails are spam and tagging them accordingly. It’s then up to your email client or some other filter to do whatever’s appropriate. However, this still requires your email server to do alot of processing. Enter a “new” technique for stopping spam at the door - Greylisting!
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I’ve been using keyword searches in Firefox since it was introduced. I love it! I use it for Google, IMDB etc. There’s a problem though. If you need more than one search term, Firefox separates them with “%20″ instead of the more correct use of a plus (+) sign. This breaks some searches, for example Allmusic and Wikipedia. Today I discovered that there’s a bug entry for this in Firefox’s bug tracker and it’s called “Bug #247645: spaces should be encoded as plus signs in keyword search”. It was opened June 19 2004, so I guess it’s not high priority over at Firefox HQ. Hopefully they’ll get around to it in Firefox 1.1 or something. I could grab the code, fix this myself and the recompile the whole thing. This is definately something I would have done 7 years ago, but now I’m just too lazy. ;)
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Computing | dempa | 
Friday 20 May 2005 16:17 | 
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