It’s too easy to quote one of the well known sentences of Bill Gates, like:
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.
BBC News (24 January 2004)
and make fun of him, because everyone has skeletons in their closet; so I would like to spread a new meme: quote one of your worst predictions and shout your meal culpa mea culpa loudly . :)
One of my favourite is:
Are you telling me that he left a telco to join a startup that sells music on the Internet? That’s insane: it won’t work!
Me - approximately 1999
Tag two friends (it doesn’t matter if they come from meatspace or not, because you won’t find more than two people ready to publicly write about their own mistakes): I chose to tag Andreas and Marco… but everyone else can join this chain and ping me back, though. :)
I suppose that you do not write your email on webpages but if you have to deal with people that do want to, you have to find some trick to protect them.
I’ve found a good list of techniques to achieve this task but when you can’t use anything like CSS, images or JavaScript it’s harder so I’ve written a small PHP script that uses two techniques:
- writing everything (text and email) directly in hexadecimal;
- putting, between each character of the text, a (X)HTML comment with random content (’@’ or ‘>’ as suggested).
In other words, calling
$email = 'carlo@some.where';
$testo = 'text to show';
echo oemail($email);
would show something like the source of this file.
The result is not enough to save your life but it can be a decent method, though.
You can download it here.
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After two weeks of training, I’m glad to announce that yesterday Dr. Kawashima stated that my brain is one year younger than my real age… and I’m still not seduced by non-free-software. :)
Update (2007-09-28): four years younger. :)
Quando un ebreo piemontese, il Capitano Segre, ordinò alla sua batteria di cannoni di aprire il fuoco, i cattolici liberali l’Unità d’Italia l’avevano praticamente già fatta. Dopo il fascismo, per troppi anni a ricordare Porta Pia restarono solo radicali, massoni e pochi altri. Da qualche tempo, infine, l’ex-comunista Grillini vorrebbe giustamente che tornasse festa nazionale: in tre righe ho citato quasi tutti… perché quindi dovrebbe continuare a non esserla? Buon XX Settembre a tutti!
Come richiesto da Stefano - che ora mi deve come minimo un pingback :) - ho attivato gli hackergotchi sul planet di ILS: chi vuole può mandarmi il proprio (un PNG di 65 pixel di larghezza e 85 di altezza… o comunque con almeno una di queste dimensioni). Per creare il mio ho seguito questo filmato: ho scelto di risparmiarvi la mia faccia per quella di una creatura più simpatica. :)
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
Top ten Italian songs of all times
It is rather hard to draft such a list… anyhow this one is a good candidate (even though it contains twelve songs because I wasn’t able to discard two of them).
- 4 Marzo 1943 - Lucio Dalla
- Albachiara - Vasco Rossi
- Azzurro - Adriano Celentano
- Caruso - Lucio Dalla
- Emozioni - Lucio Battisti
- Gloria - Umberto Tozzi
- La canzone del sole - Lucio Battisti
- Nel blu dipinto di blu - Domenico Modugno
- Questo piccolo grande amore - Claudio Baglioni
- Strada facendo - Claudio Baglioni
- Ti amo - Umberto Tozzi
- Vita spericolata - Vasco Rossi
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I noticed that three things that Italians love most can be written in English with words beginning with F:
football, food and family
There is of course another prominent F-word but it is not English at all (no, I’m not talking about Ferrari). :)
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Un quotidiano (locale?), descrivendo un accampamento abusivo, ipotizza
(…) una soffiata arrivata dagli ambienti dei sinti, nomadi stanziali che nulla hanno a che fare (…)
Dopo i nomadi stanziali, resto in attesa di un pezzo sulle vergini ninfomani…
What is a poser?
An old definition is
Someone who talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk
There could be many reasons for being a poser, with the most common being
- the walk is over your head;
- you are too cowardly or lazy to walk the walk.
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for
category theory dummies
So please, don’t go querying around silly things because Category theory is definitely not a poser affair.
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I’m not a fan of safe_mode and open_basedir (even before talking to Zeev Suraski when I learnt that it will be removed in PHP 6). Surprisingly, sometimes an easy to find set of safe_mode related bugs, viewed by thousands of eyes, survives for ages. I’ve just sent this trivial patch for the upcoming Joomla 1.5.