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.
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.
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.
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
At least 67589 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.
Summer Spam
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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1 comment
SPF-enabled spam domains
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
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tips
1 comment
Email servers: how not to do it
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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rants
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2 comments
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
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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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the well
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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
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Spam stats
Sunday, August 14th, 2005
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Branching and merging in real life
7 comments
Summer Spam
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SPF-enabled spam domains
1 comment
Chess via iPod
2 comments
Aesthetics and computation
2 comments
Brett Spurrier
Software for determining image similarity?
24 days ago
nizamfarooq
eBay, fraud, filtering, and Web 2.0
60 days ago
Derek
World's ugliest Django app
91 days ago
sagar
Sort tables with sorttable.js
110 days ago
Paintball Kolbudy
Summer Spam
117 days ago
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by Paul Bissex
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