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11 December 2005
I started maintaining a list of those email addresses that the spammers use; for sure the attacks are automated,
but sticking them up here surely helps for their accounts to be flooded with spam too. Maybe when I make 100 of them
I should email AOL .. oh wait, even better, maybe I should just write a little script to automatically send their
providers a report with the attack and the logs attached :))
27 November 2005
Are patents any good? It is interesting to see which ideas companies will try to get an inventor's piece of
paper. Sometimes these patents are ridiculously obvious or already publically available research. Nevertheless,
it gives some insight of which technologies may be used in the future and which directions they are heading to.
For instance take a look at these:
I don't think it makes much sense to try and monitor them, but I made a little comment to give a pointer to the curious ones.
19 November 2005
I added Digital Object Identifier (DOI) System support. Unfortunately,
it will take some time until I have updated the respective references with the correct DOIs on the system.
15 November 2005
Just for my record really, here are two more of these contact form attacks, trying to report their
findings to onemoreaddress@hotpop.com and
battsl1005@aol.com.
25 October 2005
I did some reference additions as I have been looking through what's new and found/fixed
a small bug on the RSS feed. Also I added some extra conversion characters to the bibtex,
but still there are more to handle, whenever I find time.
26 September 2005
There was someone trying to misuse the contact form. Quite nicely done, behind an anonymous proxy and
everything. Only he should have not bcc'ed a copy of the injected email to what I believe is he himself
at the email address Homerragtime@aol.com.
Next step is banning the proxy ips on the firewall level more proactively :)
21 September 2005
I have been correcting a lot of reference metadata. Actually there are more mistakes than I was thinking.
Thankfully I started changing some of the internal structures and it will soon be possible to do some
nice stuff. I still have to fix the ugly search engine. There have been lately a lot of, what I believe to
be, spambots visiting the system,
but I doubt they will find anything useful here.
19 July 2005
I singed up on SpreadFirefox in hope that some of those using proprietary broken browsers (cough IE
cough) will make the switch. Firefox is a free and open source web browser, so why not support it? Bare
in mind that there is no money or anything involved with this promotion, it is an effort based on
volunteers.
30 June 2005
Revamped the RSS feed output, should work much better now. The publication date of the RSS feed is
set to the time I post the entry and it does not reflect the actual publication date of the paper.
However, now the actual authors are being posted over the feed. I use Thunderbird to view this feed
and seems ok to me, so far.
12 June 2005
More bug fixing. Some administrative forms been reviewed and minor things repaired. Still some to fix.
The search engine needs a good recoding, but until then you can use Google's search engine. Best bet is
to use simple words on the local search engine, e.g. "stippling" or "cartoon". There are no advanced
features such as "stipple+rendering". The RSS has been changed so that it does not post RSS changes
when I modify entries, but only when they are added for the first time.
8 June 2005
It has been a while since I added any entries. I will try to catch up with the current conferences
and retrieve the references. I have also done a bit of profiling for the engine and I plan to get
some bugfixes done and add some new (mainly internal) features.
10 February 2005
I nailed a nasty bug, that did not allow visitors to download the free papers.
While I am at it, if you see one of your papers and you would not mind if it's directly downloadable from this
server then drop me a line! This service is totally "fee & ad-free", it is just one of my tools and I
don't mind other people using it. Also send me any suggestions that you think would make your experience
around here better.
6 January 2005
I have added some papers from
The Journal of the Society for Art and Science. It is only recently that some of their
papers are published in English and that's a pitty, because I see some nice images on the older
ones that I cannot read ... my Japanese is a little rusty, but I'm working on it!
5 January 2005
I decided to add an RSS Feed
of the latest added entries, so that you don't even have to visit the library to find whether I added things.
Just subscribe to the rss feed and get the latest references almost instantly as I add them. You will need a client to
subscribe to the feed, Firefox and Thunderbird support it pretty well, but there are a lot of other clients you can use (IE
does not support rss feeds!).