Security?

We've all heard of "security through obscurity" but have you ever heard of "security through letterhead"? One of my favorite sites (http://worsethanfailure.com/) has a nice mock conversation between a consultant and a domain registrar regarding a domain name transfer. If you've ever wondered how hard it would be for someone to swipe your domain from you the answer is probably not very hard.

The Colbert Effect

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200710u/colbert-campaign

This is an interesting analysis of the effect Colbert might have on the South Carolina presidential primary. My favorite quote comes from page 2:

"I can’t point to anything other than truthiness, but I believe the 'drunken college student' demographic is being overlooked."

Cube-De-Sac

This could have been good for the Cube-De-Sac...better than that mirror I had mounted on top of my monitor.

Ok, that's three posts in a row for me...Someone else needs to step up.

sql injection

Pretty good, but this is still my favorite:

New Signature

I came up with a new email signature. I can't believe I never thought of it before.

p@rick

And for those who know me as 'pat':

p@

Awesome...and it saves a keystroke to boot.

Spam Tagging Etiquette

If I get added to a mailing list after buying something, I'll try to unsub. If that doesn't work do you mark it as SPAM? Is it worth contacting somebody? Complaining?

Feels very passive.

Java Web Technologies Renaissance

It's a ruthless cycle. You create something so much cooler than anything out there. It makes people go wow, I never knew you could do that!

It's inevitable that somebody and probably a few somebodies will come along and make it relatively easy for mere mortals to do and the next thing you know M$ has a wizard that let's you click to build.

The good thing is that lazy people like me can benefit from the mini revolution in different ways to build integrated AJAX enabled web applications with just reading level Javascript skills. There's the obvious GWT, but also Wicket seems like a brand new way but maybe old feeling way to write web applications without feeling like you are writing web applications.

Why now all of a sudden the outburst of creativity? Is it all inspired by RoR?

Your Travel Dossier

Apparently everybody who flies now has a dossier. You can get a copy of your own. I saw a link to a link on boingboing. Try it and see what you get. It's ironic and perhaps telling that you have to snail mail the request and that some poor schmuck has to photocopy it and mail it back to you?

The samples they show seem to be the complete GDS PNR that a business travel agent might create. Knowing what I know it seems like it's your travel agent's fault that all the data is in there.