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Presto, We Have No Gallery!

Fedora / Linux stuff: For those users of my package set, you can now use yum-presto to grab deltarpms of my packages for Fedora 10 and 11. This should make your life easier – I know my upstream link isn’t always fast so the less traffic over it the

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Scale and speed and spam

Obligatory Laugh-and-head-shake digression: I’ve been fighting email spam for 12 years plus, and I still see stupid spammers – pardon the tautology – indiscriminately junkmailing abuse@ role addresses. Idiots. Why not just offer crack to a cop? With that thought out of the way… Mike McGrath’

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Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top.

Techie Happenings: I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking – it’s config is a little too different to the python

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Can sanity prevail? Here's hoping.

Christian lobby upset about Australian government backtracking on Internet Censorship I’ve one word to say about this: good. The whole sorry mess that is the Australian net censorship debate has become an international embarrassment. It is not or will be feasible technically (something the august members of SAGE-AU

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Spamford: Clue resistance writ large.

I was a NANAE (news.admin.net-abuse.email, the Usenet anti-spam frontline) regular back when Sanford Wallace decided – with great fanfare and all manner of self-aggrandisement – to cease email / usenet spamming. $DEITY knows how many cyberpromo-sourced spam messages IÂ got back in the (pre-DNSBL pre-Bayes pre-anything-but-procmail-filters) day. Those

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Offline, again.

Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending. I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode (a fairly large ISP here in Australia) as they provide a decent service

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Mike takes on social networking sites; declares a draw

I’ve historically been loathe to take on social networking sites, knowing from past experience both as a user and administrator the pitfalls and headaches they can be. Plus, some people using them are just plain fucking weird and/or gratuitously offensive because they think they’re anonymous

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I'm so bored I could listen to Yes.

It’s Saturday, I’ve got a sore throat and I’m on call. Not particularly happy at the moment but things could be worse. In pushing out a couple of small updates to the site tonight I remembered that a “bzr merge” will of

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Random Post #2042007

Cool: Tina Wallmann has won Zoo Weekly’s Beach Girl Comp 2007 Congratulations! I’m not normally a Zoo Weekly reader but I’ll pick up this one (I hope they’re better to you than they were Lara Bingle) Mercedes Corby is suing Today Tonight

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New site design - it's here!

It’s arrived! In case you’ve missed the rest of the site, I’ve pushed the staging branch to the world in it’s black and green(ish) glory. It may not to be to all tastes but at least it’s better than

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New site coming.

I’ve currently got a new site design in my internal staging environment, so the old 1990’s style of page you’re currently seeing on my site should be … better. I’ll be making good use of the Gallery2 software I installed previously, as