Category Archives: Technical

Shorter URL Links

Posted on 13 Apr 2009 by Anthony Howe

Joshua Schachter has written an article about The Great Linkrot Apocalypse related to the use of URL shortening services (TinyURL.com, twhirl.nl, bit.ly, snurl.com, is.gd, digg.com, etc.). Chris Shiflett along with several others are actively discussing proposals such as A rev=”canonical” … Continue reading →

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Windows System Tools

Posted on 16 Jan 2009 by Anthony Howe

I’ve been having some trouble with my Windows XP SP3 machine the past 72 hours. Suspect either a bad update to either Windows, the anti-virus scanner, or something more sinister. @n3wjack pointed me at some of the tools he recommends … Continue reading →

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BarricadeMX 2.2

Posted on 13 Jan 2009 by Anthony Howe

Today my partners, FSL, and I announced the release of BarricadeMX 2.2, the latest version of my comprehensive anti-spam software for POSIX mail servers, in particular Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. In addition versions for Windows and Mac OS X have … Continue reading →

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Upgrade to WP 2.7

Posted on 2 Jan 2009 by Anthony Howe

Have finally updated the blog software to WordPress 2.7. Not as painful as I was anticipating. I have a theory if you anticipate the worst, things typically work first go, but you waste lots of time and energy being paranoid; … Continue reading →

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