While looking through my web server logs, I see a fair number of web spiders that are making a very bad assumption: only the http is linked from a web page. The obvious counter example is https:. A web spider needs to only follow links that are http://. You can’t simply assume if the first […]
Archive of posts filed under the Miscellaneous category.
Never mind
Never mind.
Presidential Campaign Blogs
I was looking through the blogs for the Presidential Campaigns. It’s interesting that George Bush’s blog does not allow people to post comments, while John Kerry’s blog does allow public comments. (Ralph Nader does not have a blog.) I don’t know if the comments on Kerry’s blog are from “real” people or not, but based […]
The Electoral Vote Predictor
The Electoral Vote Predictor tracks the electoral vote state by state for the 2004 Presidential Elections. Very cool project.
Digital Photo Tips
A good list of tips for how to take better photographs (digital or film): Digital Photography Composition Tips.
Washington (DC) Apple Pi Redesign
The Washington Apple Pi is a Washington DC user group for Apple computers. They’ve posted details about their site re-design. Very interesting article.
Introduction to Cryptography
Cryptography is the process of scrambling information so that it can only be read by those people who know how to unscramble the data. For example, you can make a rule that you will shift all letters in the alphabet by three letters. So the letter “A” is represented by “D”, “B” is represented by […]