20100401 Scons-fusion

– So have you heard about Scons? – Oh yeah, it’s that food thingie, isn’t it? – Food thingie? What food thingie? – Yeah! Like this? – Oh nooo, those are scones! I meant the Python thingie! – Aaah, I see!

20090724 Nigerian scams go further

This time they have been really creative. What an amazing story to start the day! The interesting technical detail is that it seems they are using the site of a certain Bonnie Langford (Wikipedia says she’s an actress and entertainer) to propel their spam into the UK, as I see by looking at the headers: [...]

20090113 How to recruit curious people, the automattic way

I was doing some feeds processing and needed to check their HTTP headers. Oh the surprise when I saw this line among the headers returned by blogs from wordpress.com: X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header. They aren’t the first ones to find prospective [...]

20081218 eBay scams

Everything began with this scam, which I received several times. I kept copies just for the sake of observing what would follow. Since you know, once s(c|p)ammers get your e-mail address, the rubbish stream won’t stop flowing: The missing ‘Sony Vaio PCG-VGX Brand New’ Hi again, i have no laptop from you by now if [...]

20081202 The BBC accidentally reveals some source code

… in this recipe (scroll to the bottom), and here’s the question: Which programming language are they using in that piece of code? My vote goes for Perl, because… It’s a well-known, public fact that they use Perl. In fact I have even heard someone complained the version of Perl they use is so old [...]