Dropsafe

if anyone reading this really, really understands trackback and it’s application in blogging, i’d be grateful if they could please drop me a line. i think i have got the general gist of it – some means, supported by the blog software, of annotating the fact that someone is referencing your articles… …but i would…

it’s taken a bit of perl hackery, but they are there it’ll be a day or two before i prettify them to fit with everything else

well, i am not entirely happy with blosxom, not least for the amount of time that it takes to learn how to spell the name. chiefly my issues are with the fast-and-loose approach it takes to virtual URL pathnames – mixing and matching real filenames with virtual directory names in an apparently arbitrary manner. that…

[www.livejournal.com] – which takes the feed from dropsafe.

well, let’s see how this is going. this is meant to be a replacement for my old, now purged livejournal at [www.livejournal.com] ; at some juncture i shall be reposting some of those old articles here, once I have actually worked-out how blosxom works to any great extent. other things to do: get a comments…

la la la don’t you just love it. test url: [www.google.com] foo

[thud] [tap tap tap] anyone out there? [screech, feedback, thud]

i am practicing out-staring my cats. i am beating them better than 90% of the time, nowadays.

every so often, [www.ntk.net] publishes a string of interesting application-oriented keywords that let you drill into something that google is indexed, that perhaps the owners should not have permitted to be available on the web. here’s another contribution to the art, inspired by the text of a spam mail that i received this morning: [www.google.com]

The screenshots [www4.ncsu.edu] are hilarious… [www.securityfocus.com] A Raleigh, North Carolina cable news channel shut down a Web application designed to allow local schools and businesses to report weather-related closings last week, after a handful of puckish university students discovered they could use it to add textual graffiti to the station’s newscast. Before the system was…

[theregister.co.uk] The perils of Googling By Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus Posted: 10/03/2004 at 10:27 GMT Google is in many ways most dangerous website on the Internet for thousands of individuals and organisations; Most computers users still have no idea that they may be revealing far more to the world than they would want. …cites Crack further…

i have the michelin 1:200,000 road atlas of france. being of a boy-scout turn of mind, i decided to measure the grid to get a grip on the overall scale of the atlas; grid lines are spaced at 65mm (+/- 0.5mm measurement error) which yields the bizzare spacing of 13km on the ground. 13 kilometers.…