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Entries from November 2004

Character sets and spam

November 30th, 2004 · Comments Off

So how do I tell SpamAssassin that every email I receive that’s in a Kanji, Hebrew, or Cyrillic character set is definitely spam?

Update: there’s an actual answer to this question. The answer is here.

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Problems for Nikon

November 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

About 8 or 9 years ago, I started to get a bit more serious about taking pictures. I had gone on a business trip to China, and I didn’t own a camera. I realized there was a lot of cool stuff I wanted to have pictures of, and I went to one of those electronics [...]

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Thanksgiving

November 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

I hope everyone had a fun Thanksgiving. I was busy eating turkey, hanging around the apartment, and playing too much World of Warcraft. Between the holidays, fatigue from the election season, and starting a new job a couple of months ago, things are a bit hectic around here. I imagine I’ll regain my stride soon [...]

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PHP design patterns

November 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off

I’m doing more PHP programming than I’d like these days, and I’m wondering what people consider to be well-designed PHP applications? I’d like to look at some open source PHP code that illustrates what people consider to be the state of the art in PHP application architecture, just so I can get an idea of [...]

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Something to think about

November 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

The Economist has an article this week that says that one of the big reasons that President Bush was reelected is that the Republicans are the party that offers a hopeful vision of the future to Americans. My temptation is to dismiss this article, but I need to think about it before I do.

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Laying off current events

November 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off

So as you know, since the election, I’ve been laying off current events for therepeutic reasons. I haven’t paid attention at all to the fact that President Bush nominated a rationalizer of torture as Attorney General, and an incompetent toady as Secretary of State. I’ve ignored the proposed tax plan that will eliminate the tax [...]

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Learning .NET

November 21st, 2004 · Comments Off

You know what will turn you into a .NET developer when you’re a Java developer? Developing a web service that is going to be used by customers who program on .NET. They need code samples, and you need to test interop, and next thing you know you’re bugging your manager to buy you the [...]

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Cleaning up your feeds

November 19th, 2004 · Comments Off

Jeff Veen has reorganized his feeds into folders in order to make them more manageable. I find this interesting because I’ve recently done the same thing. It takes me forever to get through my feeds if I read them all one at a time, and Bloglines screws up occasionally if I try to read them [...]

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Tivo explains

November 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

In a good PR move, a Tivo employee has explained what’s going on with the news from yesterday.

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Who we are

November 18th, 2004 · Comments Off

Stan Taylor has been coming up with some liberal accoutrements that get at the heart of things. Examples include this Compassionate Liberal bumper sticker, and this I am the Cultural Elite gear.

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