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12 apr. 2006

@web@

KittenAuth:

I for one have been waiting for a brilliant alternative to those annoying X6hyT8-style captchas that test how human you are. Sure, humans can read blurry, twisty letters, but do we really want to? No human, however, can resist a kitten photo.

Try for yourself: as a basic concept to replace captchas, it’s not as stupid as it sounds (although it requires javascript, and maybe 9x8x7 different values aren’t enough to be effective).

 

@tv@

I haven’t seen any speculation about this, but maybe I’m not reading the right blogs, as usual: is ABC preparing to show Lost and Desperate Housewives episodes for free on the web because Steve Jobs joined the Disney board, or despite that?

(Actually, come to think of it, hadn’t it been announced a while back already? Am I having déjà-vu, or is it making the headlines again for no particular reason?)

 

@computer@

It’s stupid enough that Google Talk saves logs on the server so you can access them in your Gmail account, but refuses to store messages sent to offline contacts. But what makes absolutely no sense is that I just found out those messages are actually logged: the sender gets a “(your contact) is offline”, and my client doesn’t receive the messages when I log back on, but they do appear in the Gmail history! How insane is that?

Geez, I can’t wait to have a place to install our own Jabber server.

 

@misc@

And still not much interesting material to write about or even link, and I’m still unsure whether it’s a slow news month or I’m just losing interest.

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