Garden Of Blog


       the notebook of marcus del greco

April 9, 2008

The Shame Of It

Filed under: dear diarrhea, geek out — Marcus Del Greco @ 9:11 pm

I failed the Robot Test.

Name That Robot
Created by OnePlusYou

via Pun Salad, who passed the test.

March 1, 2008

WikiLeaks Followup

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 12:50 pm

Looks like the silliness here is mostly over.

February 20, 2008

Support WikiLeaks

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 11:19 am

The judge took away their name, but we’ve still got their number. Support the WikiLeaks defense fund; set data free.

February 7, 2008

The Flickr Community Is Sickened At Thought Of Microsoft Ownership

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 2:07 pm

…. as I am.

Here are some great images echoing the sentiment.

January 21, 2008

A New Direction for Mind Mined

Filed under: dear diarrhea, shameless plugs — Marcus Del Greco @ 2:56 pm

If you’re stopping into our homepage at mindmined.com for the first time in awhile, you may notice things have changed a bit. Garden of Blog and CozmiKast are now part of the regular news stream.

We’re still adding to the Mind Mined archive proper, but now the mother ship is current with the latest text and audio feeds from our Web 2.0 endeavours: your editor’s personal blog, and the podcast we started back in October of 2005.

I hope you enjoy the new presentation of Mind Mined!

-Marcus

January 17, 2008

Yet Another Cozmik Corkscrew

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 9:51 pm

This one for beverages.

January 12, 2008

Happy New Year

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 12:41 am

This blog is pitiful.

November 25, 2007

Happy Birthday Jessica

Filed under: dear diarrhea — Marcus Del Greco @ 8:21 am

The big 30. Yay!

October 30, 2007

Something That’s Never Aging

Filed under: ear candy — Marcus Del Greco @ 8:44 pm

Hey Kirk… you probably don’t read this but…. let’s do this one. I’ll put it in our songbook.

It made me cry tonight. It’s so touching how George is singing to the unloved, encouraging them that ‘love comes to everyone’.

And I always thought those lines “something that’s never changing… something that’s never aging” were a pretty easy rhyme, nothing special, trite at worst. Another crappy pop song with a worn out theme. Not so, not so. George meant those. Think about it… “There in your heart…”

It also strikes me that the tune is recorded too slow on the album, as though something is on its way, but the wait is protracted. “It only takes time…”

October 19, 2007

CGI::Untaint

Filed under: geek out — Marcus Del Greco @ 4:24 pm

Perl geeks only:

I didn’t know where to save this little tidbit just-in-case, so I chose here.

CGI::Untaint is great (especially with its cool subclasses) for untainting incoming CGI params, but what if you want to use it to untaint other variables that aren’t coming in as CGI params?

Do this:

	# untaint
        # stuff the variable into a CGI param
 	$cgiobject->param( -name=> 'remote_addr', -value=> $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} );
        # create an instance of a CGI::Untaint object
 	my $untaint = CGI::Untaint->new( $cgiobject->Vars );
        # perform the untaint, in this case requiring printable characters
	my $remote_addr = $untaint->extract(-as_printable => 'remote_addr');
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