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16-digit credit card numbers
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Skype and SSL
A year ago, I ran into a problem with Skype squatting on port 80, which I had long forgotten about. Today, I ran into one with Skype squatting on port 443.
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A picture is worth a thousand words
See what Thunderbird 1.5 RC 1's spelling checker flags as misspelled words.
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%TIME% stamping
I'm a command-line dinosaur. Vim (Vi IMproved) is my favorite text editor. And I write quite a few little batch files.
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XML Scripts -- for the theatre
For the last three years, I've been involved with The Wild Geese Players of Seattle, an amateur group that does readings of Irish literature, particularly the works of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats. Our big event every year is Bloomsday, June 16th, commemorating Joyce's Ulysses, which takes place on June 16th, 1904. It's a tale of a Jewish everyman, Leopold Bloom, wandering through Dublin one day, and of the young writer (and Joyce's alter ego), Stephen Dedalus. We're working our way through the book, reading a chapter or two each year. In this, our eighth year, we'll be reading Chapter 11, "Sirens" at the Brechemin Auditorium in the School of Music at the University of Washington, on Thursday 16th and Saturday 18th. Congressman Jim McDermott will be reading the part of Bloom on the Saturday.
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Printf tricks
It may be old-fashioned, but I still find
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dasBlog vs. Community Server
I've set up a new personal blog at www.georgevreilly.com/blog. I'll be posting non-technical stuff there and I'll be cross-posting on technical matters to Weblogs @ ASP.net. Here's how I ended up running dasBlog on the new blog.