DeWitt Clinton

When I first started working on the new project a month or two ago, I had little more in mind than a convenient way of storing short sticky notes. As the project evolved I began to realize that there were some things that I’d like to include that would set it apart: the application should [...]

I’d like to throw out an idea that I’ll call Schrödinger’s Collaborative Spam Filter. As everyone knows, email spam is a huge problem. It costs innocent people money and wastes their time. It preys on the naïve and defenseless. It is often fraudulent and illegal. Now I’m non-violent by desire, but if I happened to [...]

Whoo. Unto.net is back in the Google index. It’s funny — you can’t miss the difference in the logs. 3 out of the last 10 referrers were all via Google. Whereas even though unto.net ranks high on Yahoo, MSN, and Ask, barely one out of 50 hits come from any of those search engines. That [...]

[Part 13 in a series of articles on a new project on the transparent development of a distributed wiki-style note taking system.] A dispatcher, in the design pattern sense, is a entity that can interpret an incoming request and relay it to an appropriate handler. For a command line application a dispatcher might parse the [...]

I just read a headline about how the iTunes Music Store is now more popular than most P2P networks. On the surface this seems like a great thing — legal online music downloads have reached a level of legitimacy that indicates a viable business model for the record industry. The RIAA has fought so hard [...]