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Gra at middle~path has created a new section in the Perth Blogs wiki that aggregates all the feeds from the blogs. So, you can now see it in HTML, or add it to your news reader as RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0.
If you’re a Perth Blogger and haven’t been over to the wiki yet, make your way over to add yourself.
What’s the deal with SpamSaver? It seems to be moving itself up the Blogdex ranks without such as a mention in anyones blog entries. Usually this means that they are using comment spam to elevate their standings. I’d normally write this type of activity off, because it has become so common place, except that the idea they are expounding seems so probable.
Now you can fight back against their robots!
All you have to do is link to this page so that whenever a spammer’s robot scans your page, they will be sucked into this one. To link to this page, just use this simple code.
E-mail collecting robots will be sent in an infinite loop and will get dynamically generated fake e-mail addresses, adding enormous quantities of bogus data to the databases of the spammers, thus polluting those files so badly that they become essentially useless. They will have to clean out their databases or will receive a LOT of returned email 
Within their page they link to randomly generated sites, just like http://www1082922021642.anandteck.com/. These pages contain a collection of what appear to be the randomly generated email addresses. The domains themselves are interesting. Visiting http://www.anandteck.com/ gives you a completely legitimate site. All the domains I investigated are owned by Interlink out of Rio de Janeiro, which itself has a link to SpamPoison at the bottom of the page.
So it seems entirely possible this is a legitimate exercise. If it is, I wish them the best of luck. I’d like nothing more than to cause spammers a large headache with a vast amount of bounced mail. How effective it will truly be, because lets face it, how much of a problem will this cause a spammer, is yet to be seen.
Karen Cheng has a beautiful blog. We should vote for her at next years Bloggies.
Ponderance has the scoop from Variety that Warner Brothers is planning to adapt William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition for the big screen. It’s a fun book with great characters and feel, so it has fantastic potential for being a good movie.
Last night, at the Perth Weblogger Meetup, Bret started a discussion on ways to promote Perth Blogs. Gra suggested a wiki.
In true blogger fashion, within 24 hours he’s got one up and running. So please, if you’re a blogger in Perth, swing over to the Perth Blogs wiki and add yourself and any other relevant useful information.
If you’re wondering what the hell a wiki is, check out the meaning of wiki at the Wikipedia.
Radio Free Blogistan linked to Randompixel which is a site based on a fantastic idea.
The page suggests that over the next ten weeks we’ll get to see the photos from ten cameras that were released into the wild in 2000. Emily, the first camera, is already available. It’s worth a read just for the humour. Maybe it just appeals to me.
Java Desktop will soon have its first update released. eWeek has more details, Sun’s Second Java Desktop System Slated for May Release, and an interesting tidbit about Solaris support in update two.
For those of you who aren’t aware, JDS is an alternative to Windows. It’s a desktop system for PCs that encorporates GNOME desktop environment, StarOffice productivity suite, Mozilla browser, Evolution e-mail and calendar client, Java 2 Standard Edition, and a Linux operating system. All significantly cheaper than a copy of Windows.
It’s also the product that Robert X. Cringely claims is over (Java Desktop Dead?).
Tonight we had Perth’s second Weblogger Meetup. Given it’s only the second, can I say that the usual crowd showed up? Clockwise, starting top left, Gra (middle~path), Mark (Twisted Hamster) and Bret (Not The West). New to the fold is John (We might as well dance) and his wife.
It was again a great night, with a good variety talked about. We’re all looking forward to more people joining, so the intent is to have the next one in the city rather than at Little Creatures in Fremantle. Anyone that’s been holding back from coming because they aren’t sure, or are shy, please give the next one a go. The whole crowd is very laid back and easy going.
Ace’s Hardware has an article about Sun’s next generation CPU code named Niagara. Niagara: A Torrent of Threads has the main concepts behind the design, with a good few assumptions, so please don’t assume that I’m endorsing Ace’s accuracy. Having said that, it’s worth a read if your interested to know where server side CPU technology is headed, and why I say people like Robert X. Cringely don’t understand just how much innovation Sun does.
Scobleizer points to the latest Gillmor interview with Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s Schwartz on JDS, DRM, Auto-Update. In it Schwartz emphasises the different ways that companies can add value to open source not by just providing code, and among some other interesting tidbits he talks about IBM and HP.
A key to understanding the Sun/Microsoft agreement is his statement that “a deeply held belief that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that interoperability between Sun and Microsoft grows the overall market for both of our products rather than advantages one company versus another.”
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