KODAK: Taken On The Road-American Mile Markers – Matt Frondorf hooks up a 35mm camera w/ a wide-angle and drives across the country taking a picture a mile via an electronic trigger hooked up to his odometer (changing rolls ever 36 miles of course). The work itself is pretty neat and of course, he’s gotten some publicity and sponsorship out of it.

It’s been a crazy week. Long hours, lots of stuff piling on the todo list. Some catchup: I noticed that John Dowdell linked me on his new blog on Flash MX entitled JD on MX. It’ll be nice to get some punditry from a different perspective.

In an effort to answer, “who writes random($foo)?”, I’m typing up a little more recent about page. My current idea is to move all my old crap which is lying around either in tarballs on a backup drive or in variations of /old/, /old/old/ and /reallyold/ path structures and get them organized on the currently dormant leonardlin.com. This is my latest Wile E. Coyote plan for organizing my online crap. We’ll see how that works.

Apache 2.0 has gone gold. Well, at least now I know what I’m going to do tonight. (Hmm, I’m not joking. I think that’s a bad thing but I’m not sure.)

A recent thread on webdesign-l discussing X-Mailer values strayed onto spam filtering by X-Mailer. Steve came up with a regexp that that matches 8.8.32 strings (which looks to generate no false positives – pure spam).

If I loosen up the match thusly:

/w{6,8}.w{6,8}.w{16,}/

I get 27 of 94653: 0.028525% and 144 of 6329: 2.275241% for non-spam

and spam, respectively. And if I actually pay attention to the files

in which I’m finding these X-Mailers, I discover that every last one

of them is either on SPAM-L or in a spam message I forwarded to an

abuse address. Voila. It’s a definite 100% spam signature. Cool.

:0

* ^X-Mailer:.*w{6,8}.w{6,8}.w{16,}

> /dev/null

I got around to putting up some pictures from my trip to Taiwan last August. Here’s one for your geek moment of zen.

It looks like the Towers of Light have gone up. I hadn’t been keeping up, but out of all the various proposals, I did like this one the best.

Wow, looks like some people have taken chromeless windows to the next level at the Groninger Museum.

This one russian host has been hitting the Star Guitar Video that I have on my server over and over again. Now, it’s not that bad bandwidth-wise, as it’s transferred about 350MB, but it’s just the way that it’s been going on that’s annoying. Over 25,000 hits and counting. Removing the file didn’t stop the host. I got so annoyed tonight that I put a block in my htacces and xinetd.conf files. I probably should have done that earlier. At least I don’t have this crap polluting my logs anymore (76% of the hits so far in April were from Russia. Coinciding with the same percentage of hits from a FlashGet user agent, of course). Grrr. Well, hopefully it’s solved now.

Antares makes a rackmount and a software plugin that will do real-time vocal pitch correction. So that’s what all those pop-punk bands who sell out do to magically harmonize these days. Thank you NASA. (Pro Tools can do pitch correction, but not realtime)

Bug 134765 – Geeks getting catty.