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a rainy day on the mountain

Filed under: links, travel — January 19, 2005

After a great visit to Vancouver (and thanks David for taking the time to meet), a few of us headed up to the 2005 Snowboard World Championships presented by Nokia, at Whister-Blackcomb. Unfortunately, the weather is terrible (ie., it’s raining, not snowing), so I’m online. Fortunately I found a few good links:

- RSS 1.1: RDF Site Summary initial draft (via inessential.com)
Wow. Just as Brent says, I had no idea a 1.1 spec was being worked on. And my initial reactions are pretty much the same — the absence of the items sequence section is wonderful, but not requiring unique ID’s is odd.

- Preventing Comment Spam
An explanation of Google’s support for the “nofollow” hyperlink attribute to remove the incentive to comment-spam for boosting PageRank. Adding the ‘rel=”nofollow”‘ attribute is certainly a simple way to do this, but it does take the backing of major search engines for it to work. Way to go Google! Keep in mind though, this doesn’t stop spammers from targeting your readers.. it just keeps their spam from affecting Google’s PageRank system.

- WEP: Dead Again, Part 1
A quick read on securityfocus about the latest in WEP cracking tools.

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