Start here:
"1999," Prince and the Revolution
"Middle of the Road," The Pretenders
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World," Tears for Fears
"99 Red Balloons," Nena
and listen closely. We were so afraid back then.
Did I say, back then?
This is my first public WordPress plugin: Caesarmail. It's yet another email obfuscation plugin, but instead of using ASCII or hex code substitutions, it uses random-offset Caesar ciphers. When Caesarmail sees an email link that looks like this:
<a href=" mailto:someone@somewhere.com">email me</a>;
it converts it into something that looks like this:
<a href="javascript:degrease('BxvnxwneBxvnFqnAnflxv',9)">email me</a>
The offset is randomly generated with each page view; consequently, the degrease() link is never (or rarely) the same twice.
Caesarmail can be downloaded from here.
To use Caesarmail, simply:
To use Caesarmail, all you have to do is include a mailto: link in posts or comments. Caesarmail will automatically convert them for you.
You can test Caesarmail by commenting on this post with a mailto: link, or by mousing over and clicking this link (you can also contact me through that link, obviously).
This is my first plugin, and comments/criticisms/suggestions are more than welcome.
There's been a great deal of buzz lately on Google's acquisition of Writely, an interactive rich-text web-based word processor with collaborative features. Is Google building an MS Office killer? Has Google declared war on Microsoft?
It's just as likely that Google acquired Writely to integrate into Gmail or Blogger. Google has endless uses for an application like Writely, and until we have more information, there's little reason to assume that Google is building a Super Mega Perfect Web Office Suite.
Earlier today, I heard an interview with Iraqi blogger Salam Pax. It was a great interview. Right now, I'm listening to another interview with Salam Pax on BBC radio. It sounds like he's phoned in, and the interviewer is a British woman. But here's the weird thing: it's the same interview. I mean, exactly the same. Not only is she asking the same questions, not only is he giving the same answers, it's the exact same interview. Every pause, intonation, chuckle. It's as if someone took his responses and spliced them into a different radio segment. I'm not sure which one is the real one.
