Essays and everything else

Every post since January 2000, newest first. The early ones are short.

November 5, 2003

Stopping spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy
“The Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP) Server project aims to create an open source platform-independent SMTP Proxy server which implements whitelists and Bayesian filtering to rid the …
November 5, 2003

Google is no sure thing
Quotes from an article in The Economist about Google’s ability to sustain its market-share.
November 4, 2003

Tomacco Plant
LOL! This happens to be based on one of my favorite Simpson’s Episodes, but apparently a fan has created a real-life Tomacco Plant! There’s a link to a KPTV News Report and a …
November 4, 2003

Enterprises Want Search
Cathleen Moore’s article in InfoWorld this week regarding the necessity of a Enterprise Search strategy should be considered “stating the obvious”.
November 3, 2003

Latest about Longhorn
John Carroll over at ZDNet has posted, IMHO one of the best overviews of Longhorn to date coming off of last weeks PDC.
November 1, 2003

IT on a Budget
I was reminded of this great special report in InfoWorld about IT on the cheap via Lockergnome
October 31, 2003

Microsoft pursuit of Google revealed
I was in meetings all morning. So, I missed this report earlier, but Dave just alerted me to the Microsoft and Google news.
October 30, 2003

Doh! The cruller is no more!
“Walk into any local Dunkin’ Donuts and you can purchase a caramel-swirl latte or sourdough bagel, a pumpkin muffin or powdered Munchkin. You can get a jelly stick, chocolate …
October 30, 2003

Your Mom is so versatile you can now have her in RSS
Yes, indeed it’s true yourmom.com now has her very own set of RSS feeds!
October 29, 2003

JavaScript: Search word hit-highlighting
“searchhi JavaScript library is a way of automatically highlighting words on a page when that page was reached by a search engine. In essence, if you search, for example, Google …