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Echospam

For the past couple of days, I've been getting echospam. Some spammer or spammers have been forging my email address…

21 years ago

"Programming Pearls" online

Joe Mahoney, on his blog Cheerschopper, points to Jon Bentley's site for his classic book on good programming practices, Programming…

21 years ago

"Achewood" imitates life

In the last Achewood comic strip, Roast Beef not only looks like me, he's doing the sort of reading I'm…

21 years ago

All your web server statistics are belong to us

Nearly two-thirds of your base are belong to ApacheWhile doing some research in my capacity as Tucows' TC/DC (Technical Community…

21 years ago

When good programmers make bad choices for touchy-feely-smurfy reasons

Every now and again, I reserve the right to taunt a friend mercilessly. This is one of those times. My…

21 years ago

Thank you, Blogger

I'm a little late in writing this. I meant to write this before moving over to Blogware, but as they…

21 years ago

Steve Mann on the IKEA incident

Hey, I got email from Steve Mann! Cool! He wrote in response to the posting about my photography experience at…

21 years ago

"It is cloudy. You are likely to fly into a grue."

That new version of Flight Simulator must be really good, 'cause Scoble's got it on the brain. (I'll probably pick…

21 years ago

Getting pragmatic, part 1

Going as Microsoft-free as possibleWhen it comes to computer religions -- Mac OS vs. Windows vs. various Linuxen -- I…

21 years ago

Oops, better make that NEXT Thursday

The Derrick de Kerckhove-hosted, Steve Mann-attended "What is Reality?" hot tub event that I mentioned earlier is not this Thursday,…

21 years ago