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Email address mangling in hopes of preventing spam

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Honestly, does writing an email address as “yourname AT example dot com” on a website really prevent anymore spam than writing “yourname@example.com”?  Seriously, the regular expression to parse the former isn’t all that much more difficult to write than the latter.
I would  suggest that you have to write the address in such a way that [...]

Who owns your data?

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

So, you have uploaded your photos, etc. to some site like Flickr, but who really owns that data? Do you? They are your photos, right? Maybe not according to some sites in this slashdot article…
MoveMyData.org thinks you should own your data and be able to move it anywhere you like. Check it [...]