I’ve uploaded my first Bangalore photo set to Flickr.
May 20, 2006
May 8, 2006
WikiSpam
So I’m going through all my stuff before I leave and I decide to take a look at my Useful Things Wiki, a very modest attempt on my part to share with the world various bits of helpful trivia that are, as yet, un- or nearly-un-Google-able and… While I wasn’t looking someone has decided to take a gigantic crap in the commons. Which is to say that every single page on the site has been replaced with link spam.
And these suckers are tenacious. As I started to revert the site back its natural state, someone is simultaneously re-clobbering the site with spam! Ack!
Any Wiki tips from the good folks of the Internet? I don’t want to lock down the site, because that’s completely beside the point. I’ve enabled the ApprovedUrls feature of PmWiki and put a password on the whitelist page, which will presumably make spamming the site less attractive, but this doesn’t seem to be an ideal solution.
P.S. Ironically, the only likely response to this post is… comment spam!
[UPDATE 5/21/2006] The above solutions seems to have worked. I guess there is a broken window effect with Wiki spam…
[UPDATE 5/21/2006 pt. 2] I’m still getting a trickle… It has also been useful to enable the RSS feed on the Wiki changes, so that I get notified immediately when these things happen.
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May 7, 2006
Flickr account
Here’s the first image in my new Flickr account. It’s the pile of drugs I just bought at Target so that my skin, sinuses, and gastro-intestinal tract will not fall off, rupture or explode while I’m in India. I’ll try to upload interesting pics regularly while I’m away.
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Off to India
I’m going to be spending the next few months at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore, and I’ll try to use that as an excuse to un-mothball the blog and keep people up-to-date on my cross-cultural hijinks. I’m not sure if I’m at liberty to divulge what I’ll be working on, but you might be able to figure it out yourself if you look at the projects on the Rigorous Software Engineering group page and then look at the projects I’ve worked on on my home page. Hint: it’s not Petri Nets. (Or is it? Proof of equivalence to follow.)
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Procrastiblog 