Yesterday, while looking at the log file of this blog, I ask myself, where do the people who spam my blog come from ? I made a little perl script that looks at the junk comments folder of Movable Type, finds the location of the spammer with Geo::IP, and displays it on a google map with HTML::GoogleMaps. Here is the map of the comment spam. In fact this is not very useful because the spam is sent from PCs infected by the virus that spammers make.…
How do you manage your ToDo list ? I’ve tried different solutions but I didn’t find the perfect tool yet. First I tried to use my emails to manage my tasks. By sending emails to yourself and using some emails client features like flags, Gmail labels, or Mail.app smart folders, you can build something like a tasks list. But a lot of features are missing: tasks hierarchy, percentage completed, deadlines, .…
I use the Marty Pauley’s MTKwiki plugin based on CGI::Kwiki since more than a year. It is a simple and useful plugin when you like to use the wiki syntax in Movable Type. But the CGI::Kwiki::Formatter output is not XHTML valid, which is a bit annoying when you try keep your blog in XHTML. Brian Ingerson rewrote completely CGI::Kwiki into Kwiki which provides a lot of improvements including the XHTML support.…
This morning, in the train, my mobile phone asked me to install caribe.sis, I hadn’t requested anything, so I said No. A chance, because it was a virus, or a worm to be more precise. Carib is a worm for mobile (for the Symbian OS only) This worm is only a proof of concept, there is no malicious payload, it only reduces the battery life. It uses Bluetooth to go from a mobile to another (this limits the speed of the propagation), and was created in the Philippines in June 2004.…
I found “Bar” (click and zoom in) via the tag weird in tagzania (Thanks Victor) Now, I’m looking for “Foo” :) More about Foo (and Bar) see RFC 3092…