Category: The Web Sucks

For sale on eBay: UN Security Council Vote On Gulf War Redux I wonder if the Chilean government will petition eBay to pull this from the site. 🙂

I wrote on Sunday about wanting to protect email addresses in the MVHS Alumni Internet Directory. I finally found some time to code it up. The mailto: links have been replaced with a web form that alumni can use to send a message. Since the website doesn’t require a login, it’s not totally spam-proof. I […]

At lunch today with Mike and David, we were talking about Google and whether the Pyra acquisition would be as successful as the Deja News acquisition. Both Mike and I had read somewhere that Google had managed to get Usenet archives going way back to the beginning, and how it’s become such a valuable historical […]

I’ve been publishing the Mountain View High School Alumni Internet Directory online since 1995. Think of it as an free version of classmates.com, but just for my high school. Since a group of us started planning our 10-year reunion, I’ve been thinking about the website more recently. I’ve had RSS feeds on the site since […]

JR Conlin has won the radwin.org favicon contest. Congratulations, JR! You’ll get your Grand Prize tomorrow at lunchtime. JR’s entry pays tribute to the orange navigation bar present throughout the site. It’s a good color. Some might call it #ffcc99, but I prefer “radwin.org orange”, much the way Ray Sun describes the hue of the […]

Hurry! The radwin.org favicon contest ends in four hours and forty-five minutes. Get those last-minute entries in and win the Grand Prize.

The radwin.org favicon contest, announced a week and a half ago, is almost over. Although we’ve already received an overwhelming number of submissions, your entry could still win. But you can only win if you submit it by 5pm tomorrow. Don’t hold back! Here is your chance to show off your artistic talent on a […]

I just upgraded from SpamAssassin 2.42 to SpamAssassin 2.44. So far so good, but then again, not much changed in the code. I don’t run spamd/spamc, so a newer ruleset is the biggest change I can see.

My good friend Scott has been bugging me for about a week now to get a favicon for radwin.org. I’m not the artist type (I still haven’t gotten past page 10 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards), so I need some help. Therefore, in good capitalist tradition, I’m going […]

Contrary to my pessimism yesterday about upgrading software, here’s a release I’m actually interested in: Version 2.6. Version 2.6 is right around the corner. Some new features and improvements included in this planned release [Movable Type News] Most of it doesn’t interest me too much, but I’d probably use Sanitize. I’ve already got an RSD […]