Archive for March, 2006

Cold War music

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

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?

dear Preston: get a life

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Announcing Caesarmail for WordPress

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

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; [...]

Google, Writely and vacant buzz

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

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 [...]

(un)real

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

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 [...]

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