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About Me

PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

Book Project

I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

Colophon

This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. 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.

Pile o'Tags

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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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

25 posts tagged "spam"

Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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I'm not spamming you
Friday, June 29th, 2007
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Comment Spam
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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Library of 1000 scammy spams
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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More unexpanded spam macros
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
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Spam stats redux
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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Bad news for Spamhaus?
Saturday, October 7th, 2006

Spam, del.icio.us spam
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
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Is Akismet broken again?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
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I filled up my GMail box
Monday, September 4th, 2006
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Comcast's blacklist
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
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Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Spot the forgery
Friday, July 21st, 2006
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Trac spam
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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RapidWeaver spamming vulnerability
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
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Figlet Captcha
Monday, December 5th, 2005
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Form hijacking
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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Mining Monday: the 419
Monday, October 24th, 2005
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More on "Splogs"
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
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Fixing Web Spam
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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Google blog search
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Comment spam
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Fun with link farms
Monday, September 5th, 2005
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Unexpanded Macro Spam
Sunday, August 21st, 2005

Spam stats
Sunday, August 14th, 2005

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