I was cruising the FTC site and a headline caught my eye:

FTC to Introduce New Internet Safety Icon, “Dewie The Turtle,” at Privacy2002 Conference in Cleveland

Dewie’s website (hey, their using joker.com as their registrar; good choice.) isn’t quite up yet, but I’m sure it’ll stop those evil hackers dead in their tracks! (Yes, I’m aware of what icons are for, but come on, McGruff the Crime Dog is waaay cooler than “Dewie”).


If you PLEAC they will come

I’ve been doing some hacking around with IMAPAssassin recently. It really is unfortunate that IMAP4rev1 doesn’t allow adding headers to an existing message. For most purposes, it wouldn’t matter that you just FETCH it, modify it, and APPEND it, but in this case, since messages are being read in a loop, making a new message at the end causes some extra work.

I was writing a little terminal config program to assist w/ IMAPAssassin set up, and while looking for how to not echo passwords entered interactively in Perl, I found the PLEAC – the Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook, which is basically cloning the Perl Cookbook for other languages (the Python is the most complete one [besides Perl of course] right now, at 43.57% done right now).

I’ve also had a renewed interest in looking at Mail Clients recently. I’ll probably post something up sometime when I get a chance. Hey, I think technically, I’ve finished up my 37.5 hour work week already.

Hmm, might this be what Hyatt has been working on? A polished up Chimera would be pretty sweet. Not to mention way faster. I can’t begin to explain how painful it is browsing the web (or doing just about anything else for that matter) on my 400MHz work TiBook. As an extra bonus, not only have my arrow keys been going out, but the delete key as well. Ha, lucky I never have to use those.

Some fun bits: installed Minimize in Place, also reinstalled Milk for Jaguar. Still fervently waiting for a working version of Liteswitch for 10.2. (shouldn’t this be built in to Aqua anyway?)