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author of “Phishing Exposed”, general smart guy where phishing attacks are concerned. (also: Amazon does blogs now?)
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Bible annotation using Amazon’s “Mechanical Turk” HIT service; a success. However they did invite their blog readers to participate, which would have skewed results by providing willing participants
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a great post from John Gruber, pointing out the key problem with DRM — it forces vendor lock-in, and precludes interoperability, as a core design goal
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this year’s CEAS, July 27-28 2006. CEAS is reliably the best anti-spam conference; worth attending, although I won’t be this year
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‘[the book] is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It’s about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions.’ wow, missed this — sounds AWESOME
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it’s pretty hard to find decent maps of Dublin online — these are very good, although not quite Google-maps-shiny, they surpass GMaps’ quality in terms of data (via Sander Temme)