Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

Snoopy is a PHP class that automates many common web browsing functions making it easier to fetch and navigate the web using PHP. It’s pretty handy. I found an interesting bug recently and diagnosed it this afternoon.
If you navigate to a 301 or 302 redirect in a subdirectory you can get [...]

This is by far the best feature in 1.5. This capability allows Firefox to update much quicker (which means more people will keep up to date). This is not only a bandwidth saver, and a way to quickly update, but it’s a security enhancement. It makes staying secure easier and faster, which [...]

There’s a new blacklist in town.
Patch for SpamAssassin bug 2889:

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RCS file: /cvsroot/spamassassin/spamassassin/rules/20_dnsbl_tests.cf,v
retrieving revision 1.38
diff -r1.38 20_dnsbl_tests.cf
148a149,153
> # XBL is the Spamhaus Block List: http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/
> header RCVD_IN_SBL eval:check_rbl_txt(’xbl’, ‘xbl.spamhaus.org.’)
> describe RCVD_IN_SBL Received via an exploit in Spamhaus Block List
> tflags RCVD_IN_SBL net
>

Go Me! Simple enhancement, should provide better spam filtering for all.