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February 11, 2007

A year in New York (well, 13 months actually)

I don't know why, but let's start with this:

The Westminster Web site hopes to match last year's 125 million hits from more than 125 million countries. And once again, the Empire State Building will be lit in purple and yellow to highlight the show.

Wrong wrong wrong. Hits are indivisible, integer-like, one-to-one things. No way that X hits can come from more than X places. And what's with these 125 million countries? Must've come from the Eastern Bloc countries splitting apart. And all New Yorkers know that the Empire State is always lit with white light, and they just photoshop the color in later. Duh.

February 04, 2007

Spam AI

In the future, spammers will build a profile of me from my blog, bookmarks, etc., and use that to compose relevant-seeming mail that will make it through all my spam filters. Bummer. The traditional email model of "accept anything from anybody and assume it's all of equal importance" has got to go.

Also, if I could figure out why dreamhost's mail servers only run my spam filter on some incoming mail (not even that much of it), then I'd be a happier person.