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I failed the Robot Test.

Created by OnePlusYou

via Pun Salad, who passed the test.

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');

… of Magickman, my first World of Warcraft character.

It got me.

Here’s a piece published in the Wire today about the addiction, obsession, or whatever you want to call this phenom.

Gawd that’s cool.

This is interesting. Both my wife and I blog, so I am left wondering, additionally, “among people who blog, do women or men post more often?”

In our house, the prize goes to Jessica hands down, who has posted 893 times since 8/2005. I have “only” posted here 238 times since 4/2005.

Programmers: use Subversion? Ever tried TortoiseSVN on Windows (had you the misfortune to be developing there), and dug it?

Meet SCPlugin, a Subversion integrator for the Mac OS X Finder. I’ve put the brakes on evaluating new software lately, but this I’ve got to try. Even if I do see myself doing my commits on the command line well past retirement from coding for pay.

Here is a wonderful article on the differences (or lack thereof) in human and computer reasoning. The topic is chess, but the implication, especially as phrased so eloquently at the end of the piece, is huge. I’ll reword it here with apologies to Arthur C. Clarke (whose “3rd Law” this is based on):

A sufficiently complex machine is indistinguishable from spirit.

Something for security geeks: battle of the anti-virus products.

I just took the Perl Survey. You should, too, if you use Perl.