Took a little while off from work to do some fun programming. Got my little Netflix queue working again (inspired by this article [hey, bugmenot has a bookmarklet!]). The tag parsing is much more robust now, so it should survive a fair amount of redesigning. I shouldn’t have to touch it until 2005, when my session expires (I tried writing an autologin component, but it was failing for some reason)

• Running PHP 4 and PHP 5 Concurrently, coggeshall.org
• Making and Applying Patches: A short introduction to GNU diff and patch
• [pubcookie-users] Populate REMOTE_USER without forcing login
• HTML Parser for PHP-4 – works well
• Parsing FOAF with PHP
• Semantic Web awol from comp.ai?
• Propel: PHP Object Persistence – for PHP5
• Personal Email Networks: An Effective Anti-Spam Tool
• Mac OS X Apps for Power Users and Unix Switchers

I’ll be ‘offline’ for a while until I get caught up on deadlines. Will try to get some SXSW pics up. Also, I’m in the process of migrating to a new machine. This will be a very hectic couple of weeks.

• Dating Game Goes Proximal – hmm… (compare to what I’m doing for MSRDE)
• Lysenkoism – science, Bush administration style
• Programming Pearls, Second Edition: Generating Text (Section 15.3 of Programming Pearls)

I’m flying back to Los Angeles in a couple hours (hooray for free Wayport coupons).

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.
— Suzuki Roshi

Temporary (incomplete) SXSW XFN:

• Ryan
• Allison
• Jared
• Shaun
• Michael Buffington

Hi Anil!

Howdy from Austin. Crazy schedule action going on this year, with film and interactive to choose from, and the general schmoozing. Linkdump soon. Brenda Laurel just kicked off the conference w/ a interesting talk on transmedia and transmodal design. More when I get some more time…

Neal Krawertz (hmm, some interesting recent presentations) has recently written two pretty good summary overviews of anti-spam solutions:

• Anti-Spam Solutions and Security
• Anti-Spam Solutions and Security, Part 2

Good comments:

• Don’t forget SMTP+AUTH – SMTP+AUTH is great if you don’t have a VPN/stunnel, also interesting is the comment below about blocking entire countries/netblocks, although blocking entire ranges on one spam seems… err, asking for losing lots of mail
• Good old fashioned riddles – interesting way to keep a form-mailer from being used for spam; combine w/ honeypots/blackholers and you have something that can be used for comment spam blocking
• Re:Proof? – good points on how to aggregate IPs for blacklisting based on C/R failures
• Having experience, I can answer 1.2.1 – good points on C/R systems
• most effective – unfortunately, the most effective way is RBL blacklisting

More OS X toys (new to me):

• GeekTool – a preference pane that allows you to show logs, unix output and web images on your desktop or overlaid Now you can have your uptime easily available; Now if we could render HTML files w/ WebKit…
• SSH Tunnel Manager – a front-end so you don’t need to remember (err… or write an alias) for your tunnelling needs
• SSHKeychain – front-end for ssh-agent