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Wednesday, November 26, 2003
 
Various things

Things to read over the holiday. We'll be on the road to the in-laws later today, and tied to dial up for the entirety of the weekend, so don't expect there to be much around here. These links should hold you over...

Dave Kearns : Ease of use wins over security.

MT 'Mail this entry' used for spamming

Ed Foster: The 'Yes you can spam" Act of 2003

Bill Gearhart: Nine reasons NOT to use MS-Access to power a DB-driven website
-for what it's worth I agree with him, despite the fact that I use Access on this site. I use it for comments, and comments alone. I'm not using it in any sort of intensive use scenario, which is what he's talking about.

Weakness or misalingned strength?

The geography of Scotch whiskey

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Email problem

I know of at least one email that was sent to this domain last night and has yet to show up in my inbox, so there may have been others. If you emailed me last night, you might want to try again!

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Tuesday, November 25, 2003
 
Feed complaints

I was just flipping through my aggregator and read Neil's post about using a news aggregator. I'd have to say, I pretty much agree with the complaints he has. I generally find that I don't ever make it to the site to read the contents when those sites post only titles or short excerpts of entries. I mean to and sometimes, if the title or excerpt catches my interest in an overwhelming sort of way, I'll go read it, but most times I just skip it in the interest of time. Besides, if it's really THAT interesting, someone who does publish full feeds will probably point to it and talk about it and then I'll know that it's really worth reading...(This is my current method of reading slashdot, for example.)

So do us all a favor out here in aggregator land, pass us the information!

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World-Wide Media eXchange

This looks like an interesting idea.:

"a centralized index of digital photos, where photos are tagged by the geographic location where they were shot."

Noting this for future reference. (link via cheesebikini)

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Monday, November 24, 2003
 
Dreaming

I woke up this morning and realized that I had been dreaming about blogging. I'm not sure what that means but I doubt that it's good. :)

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