Apache logging directly to MySQL. Someone just asked how I log my web traffic into MySQL. The timing couldn’t be better, because the article I wrote for Linux Magazine is now on-line so I don’t need to explain it again: Getting a Handle on Traffic… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]
spam fighting gone a little too far. Entire ISP blacklisted because SNET doesn’t have an abuse@ email address.. *bad* idea.. why? The mail server I use is… [kasia in a nutshell]
You can take it with you. One of the really annoying ways that cellphone companies have managed to get away with poor customer service, dropped calls, etc is that switching carriers means getting a whole new number, which is a big hassle. But starting next year (on November 24th to be exact) the wireless carriers are going to forced by the FCC to make cellphone numbers portable. It was supposed to go into effect this month, but the carriers managed to get an extension on the deadline. Let’s hope that this is the last reprieve they get and that by this time next year we’ll all be able to carry our numbers with us. Read… [Gizmodo]
I get a shitpot full of spam every day. I recommend, and use, the SpamAssassin plugin for Outlook in order to manage all of this. It’s pretty effective.
This article addresses many of the big beefs that I have with the whole spam blacklist system – I don’t believe in blocking ISP IPs other than those sending spam simply because it doesn’t make a good business practice. I also don’t believe in some of the little dictatorial cabals out there that run some of the blacklists, such as SPEWS… If you want to do it, own up to it.
My big beef is really with spamcop. They have their own defination of spam that I happen to disagree with…. Double-Opt-In? Keep the records?
Some of the anti-spam folks are serious conspiracy theorists….
Happy Old Year
There are two babies in diapers running around in my living room, breaking things, making noise and roughhousing with one another — don’t know what to do with them, they’re making an awful racket! They are practically stark naked, like little sumo wrestlers.
One’s got on a sash from shoulder to hip that reads “2002” and the other one’s got on the same sash reading “2003.” The baby called 2002 has got to go, she just put her finger in the eye of 2003, she’s a devil, but I’ve got to calm them both down before I can send one packing
Ut-oh! Now 2002’s coming straight at me — better dodge her, but wait, the little tease — she’s giving me a big smooch and a hug. She’s nearly knocked me over, we’re rolling across the rug. She’s been one kicky kid full of energy and moxie. Taught me a lot.
Crash! There goes the lamp and — oh no — the goldfish bowl. 2003 thought it would be fun to do a flying squirrel leap on top of the two of us. . [Halley’s Comment]
ye olde weblog. Dennis reports that diarist Samuel Pepys diary from the 17th century has been converted to a weblog. Here’s the cool part, a new entry will be published each day starting January 1 2003.
It gets better, there’s an rss feed to subscribe to.
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Very trippy thought, receiving this voice from the past on a daily basis.
Wi-Fi is wild. You’d be suprised how many times each day I pull out my laptop just to look out some factoid. Now I need a tablet-pc 😉
It’s just freaking cool. The most compelling effect in Minority Report, for me, was the visualization of active paper. Last night we watched it again, and later some friends dropped by. To put this in context, I live in smalltown New Hampshire, not Silicon Valley or Silicon Alley. There is lots of dialup Internet happening here, and DSL is growing, but Wi-Fi households are rare. When a topic came up in conversation, and I flipped open the TiBook to check it out, I had an epiphany. The future really is here, albeit not evenly distributed. I didn’t mention, and I’m sure it didn’t occur to my friends, that I was connecting wirelessly to the Internet. It seemed completely natural that “the Internet” would be “in” this little box, whether or not wires were running to it. The technology is disappearing into the woodwork, as it should. It is becoming a small-i internet. … [Jon’s Radio]