Archive for July, 2003

The IS department where I work just implemented anti-spam technology called Spam Assassin on our email system. It’s actually pretty cool–anything it thinks is spam gets the subject line pre-pended with a “*****SPAM*****” in front. So then you can easily set up rules in your email program that filters or even just automatically […]

The problem with the Web of course is that all the urls are in English. So when somebody who doesn’t quite speak English registers an url, they can get into trouble. Like the fine folks at PowerGen Italia, an Italian company (duh) that makes power equipment (double duh) like heavy-duty battery chargers. […]

It was bound to happen. The AOL Time Warner mega-conglomerate finally dropped the axe on their Mozilla developers. Now Mozilla truly moves out on its own, though AOL is throwing them a bone of a couple million to start the Mozilla Foundation.
Yeah, right. AOL managed to squeeze Microsoft for a sweetheart […]

The budget impasse has actually made the legislature less popular than Governor Davis. That’s kinda amazing, considering millions of Californians (including myself) signed the petition to recall Mr. Davis. Yet there we are–people think even less of the legislature than they do of the good Governor.
It’s a sad state of affairs–we voted for […]

So I originally had this blog set up to publish into a sub-directory of my site. Then I realized hey, I so rarely change the front door of the site. Why not just have my front door point right at the blog. Thus I reconfigured Blogger to publish into the front door. […]

Okay, so this is my first entry in my new Blogger-based Web log. I used to write full-time, but now as an engineer I don’t get nearly enough exercise as a writer. Well, besides writing code which isn’t nearly the same.
I’m hoping that with this new Blog I’ll be able to write more […]