So, looks like some Mozilla guys are getting into blogging. Hopefully Dave Winer is right and we do get some wizzy stuff. I’ll be happy if I can get Bug 58850 fixed before it 1.0 (no DHTML text replacement’s in textareas until the ranging gets fixed; here’s a test I wrote back in Dec 2000), although maybe Bug 97284 could magically be completed…

Until then, MSIE folk can gloat (while not dealing with rampant ActiveX controls :P):

Free Software Song – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF)

In the spirit of the Free Software Song, I suppose:

♫ Free your code, the rest will follow

With many eyes, all bugs are shallow ♪

Actually, I just posted that because I liked those Unicode music symbols. Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources is a pretty cool page. It includes all kinds of test pages as well as an atomz search that while not ideal, does work.

I was doing some followup, and although the original article @ Extremetech reported that FFD LCD screens would be going into production in this quarter, it looks like it’ll be 2003 before they come out.

I really like the LCD screen on my work machine, and seeing as I spend almost as much time staring at the screens at home, it’d probably be worthwhile. I’m looking at a Viewsonic, Planar, or Samsung screen. Interesting to note, if you specify your country on the Samsung site, you’re taken into a Broadvision session which makes it impossible to bookmark the pages you’re looking at. How 1999.

I got this A Conversation with Don Norman in an email this morning. Fluff, but fun stuff for design weenies. I wasn’t going to post about it, but I saw it on elegant hack. What made me do a double-take is that this interview is from April 1996. It also reminds me that I should probably take a look through the latest issue of Interactions. It’s sitting in a slowly growing pile of unread mail and periodicals in my apartment. No doubt there are probably some important items in there that I should have gotten to by now already.

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.

More Procmail fodder

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