Garden Of Blog

The Shame Of It

Marcus Del Greco — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:11:44 +0000

I failed the Robot Test.

Created by OnePlusYou

via Pun Salad, who passed the test.

WikiLeaks Followup

Marcus Del Greco — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:50:38 +0000

Looks like the silliness here is mostly over.

Support WikiLeaks

Marcus Del Greco — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:19:52 +0000

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

The Flickr Community Is Sickened At Thought Of Microsoft Ownership

Marcus Del Greco — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:07:55 +0000

…. as I am.

Here are some great images echoing the sentiment.

A New Direction for Mind Mined

Marcus Del Greco — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:56:51 +0000

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

Yet Another Cozmik Corkscrew

Marcus Del Greco — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:51:06 +0000

This one for beverages.

Happy New Year

Marcus Del Greco — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:41:46 +0000

This blog is pitiful.

Happy Birthday Jessica

Marcus Del Greco — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:21:52 +0000

The big 30. Yay!

Something That’s Never Aging

Marcus Del Greco — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:44:10 +0000

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…”

CGI::Untaint

Marcus Del Greco — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:24:54 +0000

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');