June 2004

What if a lot of the spam that is distributed around the world today aren't really efforts to sell something? What if the real reason behind a lot of these annoying messages is to enable communication between various shady groups and organizations, without letting anyone know? What if what you really see, when you look at one of these incomprehensible letters, is actually a secret code of foul and dreadful intent, sent out in masses in the hopes that at least one will reach a desired destination? Never thought about that, did you?

Have been using SubEthaEdit for a few days now. What a marvelous piece of software! In combination with GNOME's beautiful Bitstream Vera fonts it's just wonderful (thanks Peter).

Tim Bray praises Test Driven Development (and rightly so). He also has a page about Genx, a library for generating well-formed, canonical XML. Looks quite interesting.

Found my way to MatrixSSL today, an Open Source Embedded SSL implementation. I hope reading the code will give me a better understanding of how SSL works. From their list of specifications: Clean, heavily commented code in portable C. I don't believe heavily commented code is such a great idea really (heavily sounds so... in your face, doesn't it?), but if their code is as clear as their information about it, it sure will be worth a look.