Archive for December, 2009

UserAgent spam from msnbot

There are some visitors that insist on visiting removed pages over and over again. The Microsoft msnbot does seem to have other agendas than merely indexing websites for their search engine. This blog post is about UserAgent spam.

On Gentoo and its use-flags

Many times I can read about how people look at Gentoo and its nature of always compiling each packet at installation. Often it’s believed that Gentoo is faster because the compilation can optimize for the processor being used. That may be true, but that is not what characterizes Gentoo. In my opinion it’s the use-flags.

Fight the itch

I have been writing a (yet another) blog platform. This one using simple python and its wsgi interface. However the most interesting part, and why I did write it in the first place, is the static files generated. My goal was to have a robust platform that easily could be moved without servers and not [...]

No Touch Book for you!

As the time goes by and new devices appear the Touch Book is falling behind on the gadget scale.

Shift happens

Two interesting presentations on how our interaction is using the technology.