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About Me

PBX I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.

Book

Python Web Development with Django I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.

Colophon

Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

Spam Report

At least 70644 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

6 posts tagged "ebay"

Why Tucows bought Kiko
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
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4 comments

Trying to send eBay a message?
Friday, May 26th, 2006
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3 comments

Stupid eBay tricks
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
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Selling beat-up stuff on eBay
Sunday, January 8th, 2006
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eBay, fraud, filtering, and Web 2.0
Friday, November 4th, 2005
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85 comments

Is eBay doing all it can to fight phishing?
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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3 comments

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