Blocking Referer Spam (shorter version)

Excerpt: A briefer treatise on referer spam

Posted: June 14, 2005

epcostello.net site redesign

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Posted: September 04, 2004

May 1994: www.ibm.com is launched

Excerpt: Wherein the young technical writer blossoms into a Corporate Webmaster.

Posted: May 17, 2004

Blocking Referer Spam

Excerpt: innovation by the lesser cruft of the internet which relies on the blogland notion of embedding the referers to a given page in that page's content. Here's some techniques for blocking referer spam and having some fun while you're at it.]]>

Posted: May 03, 2004

Content-encoding: gzip

Excerpt: This is a posting-in-progress on my experiences with compression in PHP.

Posted: April 20, 2004

Flailing at xhtml

Excerpt: After reading this: Thought experiment [dive into mark] and playing around a bit with the W3C's Amaya, I attempted to make the blog bits of this site (the journal, comment blog, and this section) more XHTML compliant. All of the markup I control is XHTML. The problem is (not was) with the markup generated by Movable Type. I thought that I could craft clean code using...

Posted: January 22, 2004

Superbowl XXXII

Excerpt: On this day five years ago I was not at Superbowl XXXII. Instead, I was freezing my tail off in Nagano, Japan. 24 hours earlier (maybe somewhat more due to time-zone shifting) I had been in San Diego, CA, with full media access, supporting superbowl.com. Silly me, I'd even packed my passport. See, in the Fall of 1997, someone in IBM got pitched the idea of...

Posted: January 26, 2003