Interview with a link spammer | The Register - of course this could be fake, but the guys from The Register claim they conducted an interview here with a blog spammer.

IT Manager's Journal | Bitter struggle to control SCO Group parent company - cool, the SCO management is tearing itself apart in court proceedings

law blog » MONEY BACK FROM JAMBA & CO. - interesting reference and interesting discussion on the question of whether parents have to get money back from Jamba if they demand it - and their children who are not fully legally competent have taken out a subscription with Jamba.

Orange Data Mining

Another link for the number crunchers: Orange is a data mining library with Python integration and—at least judging by the screenshots—an interesting GUI.

How do you stand it?

Phil Ringnalda recounts his dream about the history of RSS, in which he finds himself in a conversation with early RSS developers discussing the technical choices and philosophical debates that shaped the format.

In the dream, Phil is asked by one of the developers: "How do you stand it?" — referring to the frustrations and complexities that came with RSS adoption and the various competing standards that emerged.

The post reflects on the tensions between simplicity and functionality, and how different visions for what RSS should be led to fragmentation in the ecosystem. Phil uses the dream narrative to explore the human and technical dimensions of this important web technology.

Note: The original source link appears to be from Phil Ringnalda's blog from 2005, discussing RSS history through a dream sequence narrative.

A series of small nice freeware tools for OS X. I particularly like the WordServices and the CalcService (a simple formula evaluator as a service).

SSH on Mobile

MidpSSH | SSH and Telnet client for MIDP / J2ME devices was recommended to me in the comments on an older post. I installed it on my phone and have to say, I'm impressed. Regardless of how silly the idea is to operate an SSH shell via a phone, it works. And with the macros, it could even be useful for some special cases.

Ok, it doesn't make a lot of sense for our server fleet - most of our servers aren't directly accessible from outside. And switching to the next server is quite annoying with mobile text input. But usually I only need access to the front servers to trigger actions from there - and where these are still missing, you could certainly set up scripts on the front servers.

US court: Guantanamo tribunals are unlawful | tagesschau.de - interesting. But whether that will impress Bush much?

WordPress Related Entries plugin

わさび » Archives » WordPress Related Entries plugin - a very nice little plugin that searches for related articles using MySQL's full-text index. Of course, this is only a fairly simple algorithm and the quality of results is nowhere near Google's level, but I installed it anyway. When you go to the detail page of a post (e.g., by clicking on the title), a list of up to 5 matching other articles is displayed.

I also expect this to give somewhat better positioning for various older posts - without having to remember to manually set a link to them every time (hey, most of the time I've forgotten about them myself!). And maybe it will also help people who come via search engines to find what they're looking for.

Besides, it's cool, and cool is good