Archive for the 'random linkage' Category

Just how cunning is eBay?

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

If you were a phisher, would you think it worth the bargain to tell eBay directly about every URL you use to phish their customers?

When the going gets weird

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

Jason Kottke, Professional Weblogger. It has to be interesting, seeing how that’s going to work out.

Snoopy bug, or not?

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Sure, I could just file the sucker and find out that way, but I’d rather have you tell me I’m being stupid than have strangers do it.

It’s an IDN thing

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Phishing with IDN homographs isn’t a Mozilla/Opera/Safari problem, it’s an IDN problem: give IE a plugin to make it not ASCII-centric, and it’s spoofed too.

To see our intarweb as others see it

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Do a few hundred interlinked sites that to me appear purely designed to drive affiliate traffic to a hotel reservation site really count as a “hobbyist guide” in other people’s picture of the internet?

Which way do the threads on the nofollow screw turn?

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Whether nofollow means a site can hoard all its PageRank, or means that using it is like pouring out PageRank on the floor, you’re screwed. The question is just which way.

MSN Search: spam like it’s 1999

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Of course I’m just bitter because it seems to hate me in any sort of ego search (I generally come out below anyone who has linked to me, and below Bloglines preview pages, and below totally unrelated things for that matter, and he may not own John Doerr but Dave owns me), but I have […]

Sivers hits the Rails

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

CDBaby’s getting a rewrite, in Ruby on Rails, and now it’s gotten my attention.

I do declare

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Sometimes, on my very best days, I can almost persuade myself that I feel the puff of air just before the wing flicks my ear.

Credit where ptuie! that was a fly!

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Release Early, Release Often, release with credit for the stuff you stole, you idiot.