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viernes, octubre 07, 2005

Watch out for spammers here on Myspace

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There is a group of spammers here on myspace who perform the following scam to get your email address:

They set up an account with only a single picture (I haven't seen any of these spammers have more than one picture in their profile), and with very few friends.

They pretend to be in the same town you are in.

They send myspace messages to every male myspace user they can find in a given town. In the email, they tell you they want to know you and give you their email address.

You send them an email from your personal email account

Next thing you know, you're getting three or four spams a day for for-pay webcam sites and other garbage

In order to avoid this kind of spam, make sure that when someone you don't know who messages you like this, that you take a little time knowing them on myspace before emailing them (the spammers never reply to myspace messages).

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miércoles, octubre 05, 2005

On web standards

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Web standards are great.  To a point.

Web standards are helpful necause they provide a baseline for web designers--the way a web page looks when given a certain combination of HTML, Javascript, and CSS is determined by what the standards say, not the consequence of how a given web browser has been programmed.  Any web browser that renders a page differently than how the standards say the web page should be rendered can be chastized for not following the standards.

The problem is when people believe that, when designing web pages, standards are more important than how a given page renders in browsers.  Sometimes I come in contact with a naive person who think that, if one designs a web page to the standards, one will not have to perform cross-browser testing.  This, naturally, isn't true; different web browsers have different bugs which a well-designed web page needs to work around. To name just a few examples: Dillo is broken when a web page is in any character set besides 8859-1; Lynx indents the last row of a table unless the table doesn't have a <tr> tag, forcing Lynx-compatible web pages with tables to not validate; many table-based layouts will look different in "standards" mode than how older versions of Netscape render pages, forcing a NN4 compatible page to not have a DOCTYPE.

This complaint also applies to web browsers.  Occassionally, someone will design a web browser that has this silly notion that millions of web designers will suddenly revise their web pages just because some browser complains when the web page doesn't follow the letter of the standards.  Fortunatly, the majority of web pages out there do not rigidly follow standards so anyone who wants to make a useful web browser is forced to not strictly follow the standards.

The problem with strictly following standards is that this mode of thinking causes things which used to work to break.  For example, to use an example from another technical field, the GCC compiler routinely breaks old C code which used to compile fine since the code doesn't follow some new "standard" which didn't even exist when the code in question was written.  If this slavish adherence to standards existed for web pages, perfectly good web pages would constantly stop being able to render because of some new-fangled standard.

The reason for the meme among some people that standards are important for web pages is because people don't want to be in the same situtation we're in with Microsoft Word documents: A format without any document describing it, forcing people who want to make alternatives to Microsoft Word to reverse-engineer the format, which can never be done perfectly; this creates a barrier to entry for anyone who wants to make a word processor.  Even Microsoft can't fully reverse-engineer their format; newer versions of Word often times have problems reading older Word documents.

There was a time when Netscape threatened to do this; they were constantly adding new tags to HTML without referring to any standards body.   Other web browsers could not keep up.  Looking back, what Netscape did was necessary; the original web was designed to provide text-based information, which had limited appeal; Netscape transformed the web in to an easy-to-use place where people could look at compelling graphical web content.  No standards body would have been able to create innovation the way Netscape was able to.

Fortunatly, Microsoft entered the game and was able to fully reverse-engineer Netscape 3.  The resulting competition caused Netscape to give away, and finally open source their browser.  The competition also caused people to pay attention to web standards again.  While, in the early 2000s there was a threat of IE becoming the next Netscape, the emergence of Firefox and the abandoning of IE on the Mac stopped cold the harmful meme among web designers that the "standard" way a web page looks is how it looks in IE.

With a healthy diversity of web browsers out there (there are no less than three modern HTML/CSS/Javascript parsers out there), a good web designer can design based on the standards, then debug the page on various browsers.  This is the best a web designer can do; there is no fully CSS-2.1 compliant browser out there (much less a fully CSS 2.0 compliant browser; CSS 2.1 is a simplified CSS 2.0) and all modern parsers support different subsets of CSS 2.1.

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lunes, octubre 03, 2005

Bitten by a nasty Firefox bug

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I just got bitten by a nasty Firefox 1.0.7 bug.  Basically, if I'm viewing a page in one tab, then tell the browser to load a new page, and change tabs while loading the new page, the new page will show up in the currently active tab, not the tab I loaded the page in.  This is different behavior than what older 1.0.x releases of Firefox had.

To add insult to injury, if I was filling out a form (e.g. writing a blog or an email) when this happens, Firefox completely erases from memory the information I was writing before.  This information will not come back if I hit the back button; the information is gone.  I was working on a nice little blog entry about the foolishness of blindly following web standards when this happened.  Because of Firefox's bug, I lost the entire blog entry.

I think I'll start using Opera.  With Opera 8.5, the browser is free (as in free beer) without having the silly ads at the top.  Additionally, there are Linux and Windows (and Mac OS X to boot) versions of the browsers. In fact, I have already installed Opera on my Linux box to perform cross-browser testing.

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sábado, octubre 01, 2005

Blocking annoying myspace ads

It looks like they figured out a way to get around the Firefox flashblock extension to show annoying flash ads here on Myspace.  My workaround is to use the AdBlock extension to block http://delb.mspaceads.com/*, which is where all of the really annoying flash ads come from (the ones that don't stop animating and often crash Firefox).

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lunes, septiembre 26, 2005

It's the little things I miss from Mexico

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Being back in the US is like being in a faerie tale.  Walking last night was like being in a beautiful dreamland; the houses were very beautiful, as was the night sky, and the lights lighting up the houses.  I knew the walk was perfectly safe.  It was a wonderful walk.

Yet, there are some things about a similar walk in Mexico that this walk did not have.  I did not pass by one store or place that sold anything.  I would have passed by a dozen stores walking the same distance in Mexico--they do not have the hard distinction between residental and commercial areas that we have.  Many a family has a small store in their garage--a small restuarant, a cyber cafe, or what we would call a "liquor store" in the US--a place where one can buy some basic food and household supplies.  It is nice, I assure you, to have a place two minutes walking from home with TP when you run out.

Another thing I miss: Japanese Peanuts.  I'm not sure if they are really a type of peanut you can get in Japan (there is a Japanese snack, kaki-no-tani, however, that I also really like) These are peanuts with a hard casing around them; the casing is not very sweet but gives the peanuts a lot more crunch.  These things are almost universal in Mexico--any corner store will have a bag of them for 20 or 30 cents.  When I got on the bus to go back to the airport, they gave me a few small bags of Japanese Peanuts to eat.  Any large store will have a large selection of them.  When I went to the grocery store tonight to get some bread, however, I couldn't find this kind of peanuts anywhere on their shelves.  Maybe they're in an ethnic Mexican market.

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miércoles, septiembre 21, 2005

I'm safely back from Mexico

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I'm safely back from Mexico.

Yesterday was a very productive day.  I managed to get together with Adriana.  After this, I got together with Nancy and her friend Lucia for dinner.  Lucia had a present for my mother--a tablecloth and a flower. My mother really appreciated the gifts.

The next morning, I had coffee with Michelle.  Then it was time to get home.  This consited of a bus ride to Puebla's bus terminal then a bus ride to the airport then going through screening and getting on a plane to LA then going through US customs followed by going through TSA screening so that I could get on a plane to go to San Diego where my mother was waiting to pick me up.  Thanks mom for the ride home!

It was a great trip to Mexico and I hope to see everyone there again soon.

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lunes, septiembre 19, 2005

My last day in México!

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Today is my last day in México!  I`m really glad that I came down here again; my only regret is that I didn´t come down while I was a college student.  But, I plan on being back here in a year or so.

Last night, I visited my friend Angelica, who was once my teacher.  She said that I was a good student, and that I worked hard to learn Spanish.  I took her out to dinner in this sandwich shop next to the zócalo in Puebla; a lot of people were there to enjoy the shows they were having (a water show, there was a clown in the center of the zócalo, and someone dressed up like a silver statue of King Author).  We talked a lot; I then walked her home and took a bus that almost took me home; I walked the rest of the way.

Today, I will (hopefully) be seeing Adriana, who I haven´t seen for three years, and will be visiting my roomate and her friends again tonight.  Then I´m off on a plane tomorrow!

México is a very beautiful place.  I really like the people here and am glad that I was able to go.  I hope to be back soon!

- Sam

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domingo, septiembre 18, 2005

I´m back in puebla

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I´m back in Puebla.

On September 14th, I went in to Atlixco because Michelle was eager to see me again.  I hung out with her family in Atlixco´s zócalo.  The next day, I felped cook a little by grating some cheese.  In México, on the night of the 15th of September, people celebarte México´s independence.

I went with Michelle´s family, including her cousin who took care of me when I was sick, and we celebrated in Atlixco´s zócalo.  The zócalo was full of people; it was like being in a rock concert.  The mayor of the town gave a speech, and there was a lot of mariachi music being played (yes, it sounds just like the music you hear on one of those Spanish-language radio stations in California).  Finally, around midnight, they lit up the fireworks.  Since México doesn´t have lawsuit-happy lawers and lawmakers the way the US does, they were able to take more chances.  The fireworks were a lot closer, and I could see them launching the fireworks that went off in the sky.  Fireworks were being launched from every direction; on the buildings next to us and being launched from the center of the zócalo.  It was an incredible show; far better than any 4th of July I have had in the US.

Of course, it was a little more dangerous than a show in the US; in fact, a firework hit my arm.  While it was warm, it didn´t burn me.

The next morning, I left early to get together with Elizabeth, who I stayed with for about eight days last time I was in México, but who I didn´t get a chance to visit until Friday.  We had a good visit; after going to a museum with her, she helped me buy a $10 35mm camera {1} (complete with film and battery) to replace my digital camera (which finally gave up its ghost Thursday), and we had lunch together.  Then I went to CAPU, Puebla´s bus station, to get over to Fortín, where my friend Santa lives.

After some difficulty, I got to Fortín, called up Santa, and spent the night in a hotel.  This hotel cost $7 three years ago, but cost $10 this time.  Additionally, there was no Shampoo in the shower, nor was there bottled water for guests.  To add insult to injury, they played music loudly in the morning.  Thankfully, they gave me a fan which I used to mask the noise of the music.

Then Santa met me and we spent the day together.  I took about a dozen pictures (and have a dozen more to take before tomorrow afternoon, when I develop the pictures).  We walked to this power plant together (it was quite a long walk); we then went to a coffeeshop at Fortín´s zócalo and had some beverages together.  Next, we went to Codoba to see a movie together.  We ended up seeing this strange English-language movie called "birth".

This morning, I returned to Puebla, bought a bus ticket that will take me directly to Mexico City´s airport from Puebla, and then made plans to see two more friends, and hope to see another friend again before returning Tuesday.

- Sam

{1} Fixed focus at infinity 27mm lens, fixed exposure: 1/100 second, f/9.5, and flash.  The lens probably viginettes.  Like I say, a $10 camera.

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miércoles, septiembre 14, 2005

Women´s rights in México

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I was talking to my friend last night, and we were talking about work.  This young lady was telling me that, when a woman becomes pregnant, they fire her.  It gets worse.  They give women pregnancy tests when they apply for a job.  If the woman is found to be pregnant, they will not hire her.

And, oh, it gets worse.  In Cuidada Juarez (A city on the border of  Texas) hundreds, I mean hundreds of women have been raped and murdered.  What has the police done to solve this crime and make things safe for women in this city?  Pretty much nothing.  The FBI has offered to assist the authorities in this city to find the murderer.  The authorities in Cuidada Juarez have refused ouor help.  It has gotten to the point that the US congress has considered passing a bill officially comdeming the police´s incompetence in this case.

I think Mexico still has marriage-by-kidnap.  Basically, if a man kipnaps a woman he likes, her family will let him marry her.  There is hope: There are laws on the books making it illegal for an older man to have sex with a woman under 18.  I don´t think these laws have ever actually been enforced, but the presence of these laws is a step n the right direction.

There are other signs of progress.  Despite the Catholic Church´s objections, burth control is readily available in México.  You have to ask the person at the counter for condoms to get them, but they are available at any pharmacy.  There is also some awareness of women´s rights in Mexico; the excellent newspaper La Jornada reguarily discusses women´s rights.

Now, if Mexico would pass something like the family leave act, they would enter the 21st century in terms of women´s rights.

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martes, septiembre 13, 2005

Latin Dancing

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Since Michelle is gone (working for the Census down in Atlixco hopefully), I have been spending time with Michelle's roomate. The other night we visited over dinner. Last night I took her out to eat at a nice restuarant. Her lovely friend, Mari, showed up and we had a nice conversation. Since Mari had a nice Dodge Stratus car, she drove us home, then we sat and talked. Mari showed me some Latin dances.

The culture of Latin dancing is a very rich and deep one. There are a large number of different Latin dances. Mari started off by showing me Salsa. It's a pretty slow and fairly simple dance; you move left to right with a bit of a step in your dance (but be careful not to move your butt too much the way you do when dancing at a club in the US); there is also some movement with the arms and hand in time with the rythm. I can see why Salsa is popular in the US; it's simple as far as US dances go.

Then Mari showed me Cumbia, which is like Salsa. But faster. Much faster. You really need to master Salsa before being ready to dance Cumbia. Then they showed us Huapango (Mexican Dancing), which is pretty complicated; I actually did a simplified form of it when I was a kid in third grade, which I loved doing. Then they showed me Cubano dancing, which is also quite tricky.

There are even some more Latin dances which we didn't have time to go over. For example, there's Danzon (which, actually, is a pretty simple dance to do), Cha Cha, Mambo, and Merengue.

Anyway, today I'm practicing my Spanish some more and will get something to eat soon.

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