February 2007
Monthly Archive
Ooh! A generous Nigerian is looking to give me money!
Posted by Greg on 12 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: fun, planetosl, spam
Found this little gem in my logs today:
Date: Feb 12 07:05:33 AM
Visitor: MSIE 6.0 Windows 2000 1024×768 Nigeria (83.229.91.135)
Page: Propeller-heads Unite! » 2007 » January
Referrer: www.google.com.ng/search?hl=en&q=email address january 2007 update by name and address&btnG=Search&meta=
Wanna bet he’s looking to reach me about depositing a large sum of money in my bank account? All I need to do is give him my account number. Such a generous and conscientious chap.
Sysadmin quote of the week: RBL hell
Posted by Greg on 02 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: RBL, fun, sysadmin
A sysadmin friend of mine said this on IRC today (sanitized to protect the innocent):
I had to whitelist our own domain so we could send mail to each other
Ouch.
Bad users. No spamming for you!
Jyte.com
Posted by Greg on 01 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: OpenID, fun, planetosl
Jyte.com is a remarkably simple, yet interesting new site (just opened up this week!) that leverages the concept of an online identity, credibility via a web of trust-type mechanism, and claims that can be agreed or disagreed, and discussion about aforesaid claims - all tied up with OpenID identity/authentication.
Jyte is just one example of how disaggregation of authentification and identity from the actual tools can be useful. OpenID (and Jyte, for that matter) are based on open protocols and interfaces that can be worked into existing or new tools. Jyte claims can be embedded in blogs or web pages or course activities. Jyet “cred” is available for other systems to use and/or display. Jyte group membership might be used by other applications like discussion groups or online courses to customize content or control access. Private or members-only claims and group moderator membership management tools are coming, so an educator could use groups to organize students into teams for a group project that uses Zoomr.com (another OpenID-enabled tool) photo sharing and hooks into a LiveJournal blog (another OpenID-enabled tool) … or … sheesh, I don’t know. There are so many possibilities that more creative people than I can dream up - and Jyte is only one example of an OpenID-enabled application. OpenID is a new and rapidly-growing protocol that is seeing explosive growth in fascinating and novel new online applications.
Plus, it’s fun. I don’t quite know why, but I’m finding Jyte strangely addictive. And quite funny on occasion:
Descartes would have a field day with that one! And, no, I have no idea who Oscar J Carlton IV is … never met ‘em!
