The Week in Comics -- 20081029 (+ 1 day)
I bought quite a few comics this week. It's getting to be a problem.
__DC__
CHECKMATE #31
DC UNIVERSE: DECISIONS #4 (OF 4)
FINAL CRISIS: RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #26
THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #47
REIGN IN HELL #4
SUPERMAN #681
SUPERMAN/BATMAN #53
TEEN TITANS #64
TRINITY #22
__MARVEL__
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #575
AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #18
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #19
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #122
NOVA #18
SECRET INVASION: THOR #3
THOR #11
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #3
X-FORCE #8
__DARK HORSE__
HELLBOY: IN THE CHAPEL OF MOLOCH #1
AOL has a lot of nerve
We've got a spam feedback loop with AOL to try and help get email delivered there. They've decided that since they are a huge source of junk they need to hold the rest of us to a higher standard. So when a user gets email in their inbox that they don't want (regardless of whether it's something they signed up for or not) they click the "Junk" button and we get an "abuse report" from AOL about it.
Well, I've been seeing a decent amount of junk mail getting returned to us that has been forwarded from local accounts to someone's AOL inbox. Keep in mind, this is not email that's rejected by a junk filter, it's email that AOL's anti-spam didn't catch either. So shame on us for not having a system that's somehow magically smarter.
I've written one webpage using Perl
...and I've already managed to make a webpage that's vulnerable to an injection attack. Woo!
I need to learn how to scrub HTML tags. Checking whether something is in a valid format isn't that useful when your page still prints everything it's passed.
Maybe I should just admit defeat and use PowerShell
I had to preserve this for posterity:
perl.exe -ne "if ( m/^([\S|-]*?\.[a-z]{2,5})/i ) { print qq{$1 } } elsif (m/^D_Description ([a-z]{2,4}[0-9]{2,4})/i ) { print qq{$1\n} } else { print qq{\n} }" c:\noas.txt | egrep -v "^$" | gawk "{print $2 \" \" $1}" | sort
Good heavens is that an ugly command sequence. At least it works, I suppose.
I need a break from the weekend
I spent this weekend helping people get settled into their new homes. My back is telling me that I'm going to be paying for this in the morning.

