Category archives for “net stuff”
Google automats the one-line bio
Google knows me pretty well, and speaks in complete sentences.
A new phishing exploit
Using a bank’s website against itself. Tricky.
Getting with the program
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Delicious
Complete this phrase
Google knows.
Writing tools for the web
No easy solution
Pseudo-consensual link-farming
This, I think, is a new one.
I have received a piece of spam (sent via an insecure host in Ukraine) that appears to be an innocuous request by one blogger to exchange links with other blogs. The problem is that the sender is nobody I’ve ever heard of, and the blogs aren’t particularly on the [...]
Ten years on the web
Macworld SF always makes me think back to my introduction to the Web
Table layout for non-tables
displaying divs as cells.
Communications vs Telephony
Modern communications is a multi-layered thing. Old-fashioned telephony has only one layer. Regulations are based on the latter, need to recognize the former.
Tim Bray on spam
Tim Bray comes up with a plan for spam that is similar to my previous idea–paying to send e-mail–but doesn’t require any architectural changes to the Internet.
His idea can be taken a step further: once you’ve established friendly communications with someone, you could set up your mail filters to accept unpaid e-mail from that person.
