{"id":12970,"date":"2008-07-03T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/07\/03\/bring_it_on_down.html"},"modified":"2008-07-03T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:51:01","slug":"bring_it_on_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/07\/03\/bring_it_on_down.html","title":{"rendered":"Bring it on down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHokay, trying out the new and improved treo web site posting thing. My approach to any new content posting system\/content management system is to obfuscate as much as possible *what* CMS is in use. Certain obvious changes substantially reduce my risk of being hit by a driveby drone or bot. This new CMS is pretty widely used and pretty simplistic, and both of those qualities make it harder for me to obfuscate.<\/p>\n<p>It appears I can now use dollar signs. The previous software ignored all strings after a dollar sign, evidently mistaking it for a variable. So if I wanted to tell you that I bought something for $100 I had to say it cost me 100 bucks or 100 dollars. Otherwise it would look like I bought something for .<\/p>\n<p>I also can now include links (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorabji.com\/\">snorabji<\/a>) and <strong>HTML<\/strong>, though that&#8217;s unlikely to happen much.<\/p>\n<p>The URL is changed to reflect how I won&#8217;t have this stodgy Treo forever. Whatever device is next can post to this space.<\/p>\n<p>I can not get the procmail rules to work, whereby anything sent to the e-mail account would get automagically fed into the web site. So I set a cron to scoop up anything in the mailbox every 10 minutes. Nothing urgent is being written here, but it will be cool to know that when I send an e-mail to this place it will immediately blast up to this web page.<\/p>\n<p>See I just invoked a revealing use of directional language.  Why is a web page &#8220;up&#8221; from an e-mail box? Well, in this case, the e-mail box is designated a receiving area, a \/tmp space through which stuff passes on its way to this. &#8220;This&#8221; is this web page you are reading, though as I type this &#8220;this&#8221; is *this* and not some metaphysical substance that will materialize at a future point.<\/p>\n<p>Alls I&#8217;m saying is, I key in to people&#8217;s use of UP and DOWN in their allusions to reality. It is something I noticed at corporate. Talk of &#8220;higher-ups&#8221; was common enough, but what about reference to &#8220;the people upstairs&#8221; and &#8220;send it up to the boss&#8221;  when &#8220;the people&#8221; and &#8220;the boss&#8221; were physically located on lower floors of the building?<\/p>\n<p>I noticed these things.<\/p>\n<p>I am in a bar full of hot babes but here I am at a table by myself pecking away at this ridiculous keyboard. Babe magnet! Bring it on down to the babe magnet.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hokay, trying out the new and improved treo web site posting thing. My approach to any new content posting system\/content management system is to obfuscate as much as possible *what* CMS is in use. Certain obvious changes substantially reduce my risk of being hit by a driveby drone or bot. 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