Five Acres with a View

Late summer garden

My petunias and alyssum are doing very well. I’ve been surprised at how well the alyssum has grown: the plants were tiny when I bought them.

In Filters that Fight Back,

In Filters that Fight Back, Paul Graham suggests

One intriguing idea is to literally fight back: to make filters disable spammers’ servers by automatically following all the links in each incoming email. We may be driven to this in order to achieve accurate filtering anyway. Why wait?

And the battle continues.

Web Album Generator

Web Album Generator produced albums suitable for online applications or for bunning to CD. The output files include CSS and XHTML. (via Life of a one-man IT department.)

I’ve spent the day loading the data from my Coffee and Oranges weblog archives into Movable Type. The format can be found at Coffee and Oranges. You can search both Five Acres with a View (this weblog) and Coffee and Oranges (my old weblog) using the search box on the sidebar.

Book Binding Models

Book Binding Models is a collection from the University of Iowa of various styles of book binding such as the early codex binding and monastic manuscript binding.