The word of the day is pornocracy
The debate of the day is if pornocracy is a real word or not.
Archive of entries posted on April 2005
Pet Peeve of the day
My Pet Peeve of the day is people who take the elevator at work to travel a single floor. On my way up to the 6th floor where my office is, I had 3 people jump on and go just one floor.
Greylisting
Recently, I was asked to write an article on greylisting for a slightly non-technical audience. Through the editing process it became a much smaller article and had its focus slightly changed. I still like my original version and got permission to post it here. Actually, I hate the second paragraph, but I couldn’t figure out how I wanted to fix it.
Comments, corrections, etc, welcome.
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Greylisting: another tool in the war on spam
As anyone who uses e-mail knows, getting spam is a constant problem. In the spam arms race new technology is being created all the time. One of the newest technologies on the side of e-mail receivers is greylisting.
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Rue the day? Who talks like that?
Your Linguistic Profile: |
| 70% General American English |
| 15% Upper Midwestern |
| 10% Yankee |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 0% Dixie |
A post on Jess’s blog pointed me at this test. Its a fun bit of fluff, but it has one thing wrong with it. The question on what you call a water fountain should also include the term bubbler which is popular in Wisconsin. Although, I’m not sure where it would fit into the categories it puts your speaking style into.
Scrapbook
My firefox extention of the week is Scrapbook. It allows you to make local copies of web pages, sections of web pages, and keep them locally. This is nice for fast access when you aren’t online. The other neat feature is you can annotate those local copies with notes to yourself. It has a few other features, but those are the two I’ve used the most.
James Coates wrote about Scrapbook in his column last weekend. Its the only useful bit of information I’ve ever gotten from the column. As my friend said when I brought this up to him, “Coates’ column is like a car wreck, you can’t help but stare at it even though you don’t really want to.”
Do you have any super powers?
Having read comics for a long time and being familar with the Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)1 and Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) I never thought that stretching was all that great of a power.2 However, that all changed on Sunday night when Sarah and I watched The Incredibles.
Having watched Elastigirl in action, I have to admit that I totally underrated that power. I don’t know if it was a lack of imagination on my part or having just not read enough comics featuring the aforemented gentlemen.
I have two questions to put to you.
- What super power did you once underrate that you now think is pretty cool and what changed your mind?
- What character’s powers would you want?
I answered the first one above, so here’s my answer to the second: I’ve always been partial to wanting a Green Lantern ring. I don’t really want to have to answer to the Guardians though. (Blue little fuckers! Okay, you caught me, I just wanted to say “blue little fuckers!”) Think about it, the ring can practically do anything you can think of. Not really too bad of a power to have. You just need to remember to charge the ring. I remember to charge my cell phone, I think I could handle charging the ring.
1. R.I.P. Sue
2. Plastic Man doesn’t count as he’s really more of a shape shifter then a stretcher.
Driving that train, high on cocaine
I had an annoying runny nose today, so I took some Wal-phed, Walgreen’s Sudaphed clone. This stuff makes me nose stop running, which is good. It also had the side effect of making me feel very worried and anxious.
I felt like I’m freaking out and didn’t know why. Now I know its just the drug making me feel that way. But I’m still freaking out.