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. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. 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

I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. 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 67589 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

28 posts tagged "spam"

Summer Spam
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
spam
1 comment

SPF-enabled spam domains
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
email + spam + tips
1 comment

Email servers: how not to do it
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
email + rants + spam
2 comments

Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
akismet + blogs + django + site + spam
2 comments

I'm not spamming you
Friday, June 29th, 2007
site + spam

Comment Spam
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
blogs + site + spam

Library of 1000 scammy spams
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
fun + risks + site + spam

More unexpanded spam macros
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
fun + spam

Spam stats redux
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
site + spam

Bad news for Spamhaus?
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
spam

Spam, del.icio.us spam
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
blogs + risks + spam
4 comments

Is Akismet broken again?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
akismet + blogs + spam
2 comments

I filled up my GMail box
Monday, September 4th, 2006
google + risks + spam
2 comments

Comcast's blacklist
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
risks + spam + the well
4 comments

Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
blogs + php + site + spam
2 comments

Spot the forgery
Friday, July 21st, 2006
fun + spam

Trac spam
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
spam + tips + trac

RapidWeaver spamming vulnerability
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
os x + php + risks + spam

Figlet Captcha
Monday, December 5th, 2005
fun + python + spam

Form hijacking
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
php + risks + spam + tips
1 comment

Mining Monday: the 419
Monday, October 24th, 2005
fun + spam

More on "Splogs"
Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
blogs + spam
1 comment

Fixing Web Spam
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
blogs + spam

Google blog search
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
blogs + google + search + spam

Comment spam
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
site + spam

Fun with link farms
Monday, September 5th, 2005
fun + spam
1 comment

Unexpanded Macro Spam
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
spam

Spam stats
Sunday, August 14th, 2005
spam

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