Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

Habeas, an company who sells copyrighted x-header tags, known as “Habeas Warrant Mark” to companies who abide by their rules regarding spam, in return for avoiding spam filters (yes copyrights actually can benefit the internet community). It has a rather large backing from email providers and spam filters. Habeas has recently been under [...]

I always wanted WiFi for my Sony Clie T665C (Palm OS 4). I emailed SanDisk out of curiosity, and here was my reply:

Hello,
Thank you for contacting SanDisk Technical Support. We do not have Palm support and do not know when we will. There are business issues with Palm Source that are preventing us from [...]

I’ve been off, but what have I accomplished?

Patch for Mozilla Bug 94787.
Learned a bit of Javascript, and some XUL (hopefully more Mozilla work soon).

Some updates to blog templates/atom feed/other blog stuff.
Patch for SpamAssassin Bug 2889.
Installed Mantis Bug Tracking system for MacVillage.net.
Benderupdates some stats hourly to this webserver.
Remastered master HTML template for MacVillage.net, cutting several KB [...]

Some of the names on this list remind me of the “sissy names” George Carlin made fun of back when he taped Complaints and Grievances for HBO (great show, I was there). Guys named Todd.
According to Babynames.com, the top 20 baby names:
Top 20 boys names:

Aidan/Aiden/Aden
Jaden/Jayden
Caden/Kaden
Ethan
Caleb
Dylan
Jacob
Jordan
Logan
Hayden
Connor
Ryan
Morgan
Cameron
Andrew
Joshua
Noah
Matthew
Addison
Ashton

Top 20 girls’ names

Madison
Emma
Abigail
Riley
Chloe
Hannah
Alexis
Isabella
Mackenzie
Taylor
Olivia
Hailey
Paige
Emily
Grace
Ava
Aaliyah
Alyssa
Faith
Brianna

Quite some time ago, I started the Securita project, to implement a word filter, capable of providing adequate protection to those who wish to employ such technology.
Not much has happened in that project.
I believe, with Firebird approaching 1.0 sooner than people think (it’s not that far off), now is the time to seriously [...]

This is absolutely wonderful.
One of the better pranks I’ve heard of in recent times. Creative fun. And I love the picture of that book.

Stephen Lynch needs some help:
Comedy Central is having their 2nd annual Standup Showdown. All this month, you can vote for your favorite comedian’s episode of “Comedy Central Presents…” The winner gets their special rebroadcast. Thanks to you, I came in first last year, and I’d like to again this year so maybe [...]

I gave you the best hour of my life!
Ok, it wasn’t that bad.
Symantec, apparently deployed a new version of Live Update today, and it apparently wasn’t well tested. After days of serious virus catches, it updated, and live updated, doesn’t function. I uninstall, reinstall, uninstall again, clear registry out a bit, [...]

The Fourth Annual Weblog Awards are going on.
I won’t put a shameless plug here, but remember who informed you about the awards going on.

If you haven’t checked out the Apple video of Virginia Tech’s “Big Mac“, you should do so NOW!
The datacenter pics made me salivate. Yummy. I wouldn’t mind having just 1. Forget about 1,100!