Yesterday I sat through a screening of the film “Helvetica” at the SXSW conference in Austin. Three weeks earlier, I attended a screening of “The Number 23.” Both films make an enlightening point of demonstrating how common — perhaps even invasive — everyday items can become. For example, I write this post while awaiting my …
Yearly Archives: 2007
Can DNSBLs Keep Spammers At Bay?
Today was an unwanted day of tinkering with and explaining spam defenses. Spam comes in many formats. The two that affect me the most are email spam and comment spam. Email Spam At the office, I have many layers of spam defenses. One of those layers are DNSBLs. DNS Stuff maintains a list of roughly …
Audi Heading Out
It’s been about six months, maybe more, since I purchased my 2005 Infiniti G35x. I love the car, which means my 1998 Audi A6 2.8 Quattro Sedan AWD has been taking up room in my driveway. After taking it to the shop for a good tuneup, I’m finally ready to let her go. She’s now …
Mixd Texts Goodbye
I received a text message today from Yahoo’s Mixd service saying their “pilot study will end on Feb 25th and that the service will no longer be available.” Bummer, for Mixd proved to be very useful last month when 20 Lambda Chi Alpha staff members were stranded in various airports in a effort to get …
The Machine is Us
I enjoyed this video, which nicely illustrates the advancements of user-generated content (Web 2.0) technologies.