Christian Heilmann

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Blogging gene discovered

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Or is it?.

“Webloggers are born not made,” he said. “And shouldn’t be persecuted.” The activity could be a positive, group-bonding social function such as grooming, or simply a harmless way of passing the time, such as masturbation.

Lynx users are hackers!

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser

Three cheers for that admin.

Human DNA demystified

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Scientists were wondering for a long time why only a small percentage of the human DNA does fulfil a real function. Now it has become clear: the rest are comments .

Beachwalkers

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Got an email with videos of two odd contraptions. I have no idea what these things are, but I want one.

Email spam protection idea

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

After a rather interesting discussion on how to obfuscate emails on the frontend – me pointing out that most techniques are rather inaccessible and make spam the problem of the visitor – I came up with the following idea:

What if you set up your email links by linking to a page:

The PHP page then checks the referrer page and compares it with its own host IP, gets the email from a database or other mean of storage and sends back a ‘mailto:’ header:

header('Location:mailto:'.$email);

Wouldn’t that be a quite safe solution for the problem?

  • Note: Of course a web form is the best option as it does not need an email client tool.