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I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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Archive for January 27th, 2004

Some SpamAssassin rules I’m using to combat the MyDoom email virus:

January 27th, 2004

Some SpamAssassin rules I’m using to combat the MyDoom email virus: (not
foolproof by any means)


rawbody DS_MYDOOM_ENCODING /charset="Windows-1252″/
rawbody DS_MYDOOM_ATTACH_1 /filename="(message|file|text)\.zip"/
rawbody DS_MYDOOM_ATTACH_2 /filename=”.*\.(pif|scr)"/
rawbody DS_MYDOOM_BASE64_1
/^TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA\/\/8AALgAA
AAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/
rawbody DS_MYDOOM_BASE64_2
/^UEsDBAoAAAAAAKYJPDDKJx+eAFg
AAABYAAAKAAAAcmVhZG1lLnNjck1akAADAAAABAAAAP\/\/AAC4/
 
score DS_MYDOOM_ENCODING 2.0
score DS_MYDOOM_ATTACH_1 3.0
score DS_MYDOOM_ATTACH_2 4.0
score DS_MYDOOM_BASE64_1 3.0
score DS_MYDOOM_BASE64_2 3.0

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Lime Diet Coke introduced.

January 27th, 2004


Lime
Diet Coke introduced.

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Random Web snarfage, now that my broadband is back:

January 27th, 2004



Random Web snarfage, now that my broadband is back: turning
web porn surfers into a distributed fuzzy logic computer; why ikea
and starbucks don’t suck; folklore
from the early days of the Macintosh project; DeCSS haiku
revealed.

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* dsandler has a couple of painters fix some stuff in his house <dsandler> They asked what I did, and I said, “You ever seen…

January 27th, 2004

* dsandler has a couple of painters fix some stuff in his house

<dsandler> They asked what I did, and I said, “You ever seen one of these? Palm handhelds? Palm Pilots?” (holding one up)

<dsandler> “Uh, no, not really.”

<dsandler> So, you know, we still have more potential customers out there.

<dsandler> :)

<Nash> When they finally catch on to it, they’re gonna realize they want a PDA that’s a cell phone … so they don’t have to carry both.

<dsandler> I should have mentioned that.

<dsandler> If I had a smartphone I would definitely have demonstrated it :)

<daveb> When I went back to the back woods of NY, nobody knew what that little computer I had was.

<daveb> The breadbasket of america is still too worried about bread to notice.

<dsandler> Let them eat Palms.

* dsandler . o O ( that was both allegorical and grotesque )

<ctate> hee hee

<ctate> dsadeler

<ctate> (or, less obscurely, the Marquis dsandler)

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You probably already know this, but edmunds.com paid one of their reporters to sell cars for three months.

January 27th, 2004


You probably already know this, but edmunds.com paid one of their reporters to sell cars for three months.
Undercover. The report is a fascinating tell-all about the truths and
lies, the tricks and techniques, the day-to-day reality of car sales. If
you have ever bought a car, or ever plan to, or have ever sold a car …
you must read it.

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