Open letter from TWU's Toussaint to NYC Mayor Bloomberg
Posted 10:18 PM

This statement by the TWU's leader to Bloomberg is an interesting read. I agree strongly that Bloomberg is goading on the transit strike with incendiary and ridiculous language. However, I take an issue with Toussaint's comparison between a small business owner skirting government regulations to shutting down mass-transit in New York City.

As a small business owner, I've found that government regulations overwhelmingly favor large corporations - who can afford to hire full-time accountants and lawyers to fill out reams of paperwork and deal with regulators.

Governments should subsidize compliance assistance for businesses with fewer than, say, 50 employees or so. This never happens and the consequence of most government regulation and oversight is to prop up wealthy and long-established businesses and prevent innovation. (The structure of the FCC comes to mind).

Bloomberg surely doesn't try to dodge regulation now that he's been established - he can't. But as an entrepreneur, he had to. Toussaint, or his advisers, should recognize the difference.

Labels: politics

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Archived a copy of greylist domains
Posted 11:56 AM

Since monkeys.org stopped updating/hosting this list of greylistable domains, like hotmail.com, that are frequently forged, I've archived it. If anyone notices this and has a scheme for keeping it curent, or a better source, please let me know.

Labels: network security

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Server Macro Expansion for Apache
Posted 1:40 PM

This site is now hosted on memebot instead of on an old windows box in my office, and is running linux with SMX-enabled apache.

SMX stands for Server Macro Expansion, and is a simplified macro-language for rapidly building content and database-interactive websites. It's the language I wrote ZoneEdit in, as well as the language that powers Memebot.

Labels: programming

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