Now, when I say these are three things you have to accept, I mean you have to accept them. Because if you don’t accept them upfront, they’ll happen to you anyway. And then you’ll end up writing one of those documents that says “Oh, we launched this and we tried it, and then the users […]

Now your bus can send you an SMS when it’s about to arrive. This is so cool.
NextMuni is a recently implemented computerized system that uses GPS technology to trace the movement of Muni vehicles to predict their arrival times and post that information on line or on the electronic displays at all […]

you might as well get used to it. :-)
(right click and save-link-as for desktop wallpaper - set your desktop to black and choose Center for that fullscreen VT220 effect)

SEO (search engine optimization) and SEM (search engine marketing) purport to make sites search-engine-friendly so spiders can index your pages and find your content — fine. But often what masquerades as SEO/SEM is nothing more than unscrupulous hosers filling legitmate sites with spammy links (splinks) to fake, ad-filled websites they’ve created to harvest click-advertisement money. […]

So you want to install Trac, the rad Wiki / Ticket system / Subversion front-end / Juicer, but server administration crap really isn’t your thing? Daunted by the disgustingly long list of instructions sprayed across 20 different websites? Never fear, I’ll hold your hand. This will only hurt a little…

download SWIG (simplified wrapper and interface […]

(from DieSpammersDie on Tools to Make Tools)
The Problem
Because FeedMeLinks has a decent Google Page-Rank and a deliberately low barrier to entry, “link spammers” have discovered the site and are posting hundred of almost identical URLs to the site in order to promote other online properties. This disturbs users and dillutes the value of the site […]

history | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk ‘BEGIN {FS=”|”} {print $1}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort
from lifehacker

i am now using sxore (from sxip, of the identity 2.0 presentation fame) to moderate comment spam and verify the identity of comment posters. this is a good thing.

this post is ancient (and unfinished), so i’m just going to publish it to get it out of my drafts folder. we need to publish our findings and at that point, i’ll just trackback this to that.
Map the Flash content.
This is best done on paper or in simple diagram form on your computer. You don’t […]

Gmail-Lite is an interface around Gmail, which essentially filters out all the javascript and presents a bare-bones Gmail which will work on any browser (including Lynx, your phone, etc.)
I set up a local instance here for playing around: url censored.
Or you can install your own server: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/
Now all you need is a keyboard to type […]