Pricess Grace

DEAR FREIND.

HOW ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR FAMILY TODAY?

I AM PRINCESS GRACE, FROM BUKINA FASO WEST AFRICA ,

ONES AGAIN I SAY GOOD DAY TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,

MY DEAR THIS PROPOSAL IS ABOUT MY LATE FATHER WAILTH

IN A SECUIRITY COMPANY, MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER DIED 4YEARS EGO, ON THEAR WAY TRAVELING TO TOGO REPOLIC, MY FATHER WAS THE DIRETOR OF EMMEX COMPENY OUAGA-FASO LIMITED,

SO DEAR MY FATHER HAVE A CROSSING ACCOUNT OF ($11.4M) ELEVEEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED US DOLLARS, AM CONTANTING YOU IN THIS BUSINESS BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME ON THIS SUITAITION, BECAUSE I AM THE ONLY ONE LEFT IN MY FAMILY,

MY GOOD FRIEND ALL I NEEDED FROM YOU IS TO CONTACT MY LATE FATHER LAWYER THAT IS IN CHARGE ON THIS FUND, ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS TO CONTACT HIM, AND TELL HIM THAT YOU ARE MY RELATIVE THAT YOU WANT THE MONEY TO BE TRANSFERD INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, BUT I WILL SEND YOU THE LETTER THAT YOU WILL SEND TO HIM FOR THE FUND TO BE TRANSFER INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, I WILL DO THAT WHEN I HEAR FROM YOU SO THAT WHEN THIS FUND BE TRANSFER IN YOUR ACCOUNT I WILL COME OVER TO YOUR CONTRY TO INVEST MY OWN PART OF THE MONEY,

SO FREIND THIS IS HOW I

WANT THE MONEY TO BE SHEARD AFTER THE TRANSFER, 30% FOR YOU AND 60% FOR ME WHILE 10% WILL GOES ON EXPENSIS DURING THE TRANSFERING OF THIS FUND,

THIS IS MY ADDRESS,

PLEASE I WILL NEED YOURS URGENT FOR THIS TRANSACTION MATTERS,

MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE.

RELIGION: CHRISTIAN

PROVINCE OF ORIGINE OR STATE: BOBO-DIOULASSO BURKINA FASO .

NATIONALITY: BURKINABE.

AGE: 23

HOUSE ADDRESS: 82 ZANGOTE YENUGUA 02 BP 4587

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO .

THANKS AND GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT TO HELP ME TRANSFER THIS FUND OUT OF THIS COUNTRY,

PRINCESS GRACE.

(This is not spam. Well it is spam. But it's here on purpose.)

New Colo

After quite a long time of PHP crapping out, I finally decided to ferret out the issue.  It turns out the newer versions of chyrp want some extra libraries compiled into PHP.  Since my old hosting provider was in control of their PHP implementation, I decided to move the site over to my colo'd box that's been sitting around doing nothing.  Problem solved.  I compiled PHP the way I wanted it, and everything's good.  So welcome back!

New Year's Resolutions '09

It is with great remorse that I begin writing the traditional "First Post" of the new year. It is, of course, on the topic of resolutions and forward looking predictions for the coming year. I usually abstain from writing this post since EVERYONE ELSE has one of their own. However, I have am already well on my way to meeting my primary resolution goal. That goal is to finish at least as many projects as I start this year. Note that I'm not actually planning to finish any of the projects I start this year. That said, here is a ridiculously incomplete list of my current, in-progress projects:

• PyRSS2Twitter is a Python application that will daemonize and continually check any number of RSS feeds and post each to it's specified Twitter accounts. I've been remarkably disappointed with the existing players in this realm.
• PyPingFM is a Python Interface to the Ping.fm API. This project has been started to tie into the RSS2Twitter project as it occured to me that I or others might like to post to something other than Twitter. Rather than implementing thousands of social network API's, I figured the smart approach would be to interface with someone who already had.
• Practical Django Projects is a wonderfully written book that walks through the itterative development process for web apps that Django suits so well.
• Puzzles for Hackers is a fun book that's almost too good to finish. It provides lots of computer-related puzzles and mind games for people with an analytical mind.
• Hacking: The Art of Exploitation is a great book that can be approached from several different angles. My approach is from that of an exploit researcher. This is one thing I've needed to work on.
• Processing is an interesting looking Java based language for data visualization. It just looks cool, and I've done little more than look at the website. I'd really like to learn how to do something with it.

Now I've mentioned that I intend to finish at least as many projects and I start this year. I have actually completed one project, so I guess I get a freebie to start this year.

I have now a feature complete implementation of a Python Interface to the bit.ly URL Shortening API.