Day: 16 September 2003
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Egobot
Try this fantastic PHP tool for extracting information from the Google search engine. Quite simplistic, but infinitely cool.
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Smart Alex
Alex, my incompetent co-worker, came up with the following gem in today's meeting when talking about a product that would aid employers in securely tracking how long their employees actually spend working:
"It's not going to have any of that... security... nonsense."
I shall have to beat him to death later.
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VeriSign Adds Wildcards To TLDs
I am outraged.
VeriSign, the company which manages the .COM and .NET domain names, has done the unthinkable. They've taken advantage of and abused their power by setting up a wildcard filter on the primary DNS, pointing to their own server - sitefinder.verisign.com.
Now for those of you who are less technically-inclined, this basically means that every …