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diff --git a/_posts/2007-01-02-hope-for-new-year.md b/_posts/2007-01-02-hope-for-new-year.md
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 I greatly enjoy *Edge*’s annual question, posed to a variety of top minds (skewing heavily academic). [This year’s](http://edge.org/q2007/q07_index.html) – what are you optimistic about? – is no exception. Of the many answers, brilliant and tedious alike, two in conjunction stood out for me as reasons to be hopeful about the future.
 
 The first [response](http://edge.org/q2007/q07_3.html#enriquez) that really spoke to me was from Juan Enriquez, CEO, scholar, and author. Enriquez argues that a networked global economy will break down poverty, discrimination, and similar ills. A strong excerpt:

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 [Ciao Bella](http://www.ciaobellagelato.com/) brand gelato has become a fixture of our freezer over the last several months. I am here to recommend it whole-heartedly, unsponsored and unabashed.
 
 We first tried their coconut, which has more of a sorbet texture than one would expect of gelato. It’s become our mainstay desert. Their green tea with white chocolate is also a good bet, though the green tea would stand alone just as well. Hazelnut is a bit gritty.

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 The New York Times has an interesting [article](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03google.html) today about Google’s hiring practices. In a nutshell, Google is beginning to account for applicant traits beyond raw academic performance: unique experiences and accomplishments, personality quirks, working habits. Beyond that, Google is attempting to evaluate the success of potential hires algorithmically. It sounds like a sort of [eHarmony](http://www.eharmony.com) for the workforce, and decidedly more granular than their renowned low-pass filter for grades and test scores.
 
 Ever since it became every computer science graduate’s dream to work at Google, friends and family have asked me why I wasn’t interested in the search giant. My answer was that I didn’t think I was what Google was looking for. I did not perform well across the board academically in high school and college; my grades in math, particularly, were quite poor for someone with a facility in programming. Beyond that, I don’t test well (outside of humanities subjects, anyway). I don’t enjoy the sort of brain teasers and obscure trivia challenges that Google’s interview process is infamous for. My brain seems to be wired to function optimally only when solving real-world problems; contrived scenarios leave me slack-jawed. So I’d shake my head when people asked why I wasn’t hustling to work there: “I’m not their type of geek.”

diff --git a/_posts/2007-01-03-knowing-where-i-stand.md b/_posts/2007-01-03-knowing-where-i-stand.md
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 Kineda’s [Are You an A-List Blogebrity?](http://www.kineda.com/are-you-an-a-list-bloglebrity/) widget will size you up and tear you down. In my case, the results were wholly unsurprising:
 
 > [![C-List Blogger](http://www.kineda.com/bloglebrity/clist.png "C-List Blogger")](http://www.kineda.com/are-you-an-a-list-bloglebrity/)

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 Steve Dekorte [writes about](http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=item&#38;id=2403) atheism versus agnosticism:
 
 > “I personally don’t like the word agnostic because we don’t use similar words to make distinctions about certainty when it comes to matters outside of religion – so using a special word for uncertainty on matters of religion seems to grant it some special status which I don’t feel it deserves. After all, many people who are religious have doubts, but do they call themselves agnostics?”

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 Got Macworld fever? You can [follow Macworld at Twitter](http://twitter.com/macworld) and, if youre so inclined, contribute to the stream of updates. The early posts were mostly Im excited! and I hope they announce this thing! but it looks like its turning into something useful.
 Know a site thats doing good Macworld coverage? Drop a comment.
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 June.
 
 It’s a ways away, but not too long to wait for someone to finally fix mobile phones and get convergence devices right.

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 So the [iPhone](http://www.apple.com/iphone/) is probably going to be [closed to third-party applications](http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/09/iphone-will-not-allow-user-installable-applications/). p. Thats not good. [Merlin Mann talks about why](http://www.43folders.com/2007/01/11/osx-app-developers-iphone/:bq).
 
 There’s the potential here for some serious George Jetson shit and it would be a pity not to capitalize on that as early as possible.

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 When I was doing my [talk on Rails security](http://static.al3x.net/securing_rails.pdf) at RailsConf Europe I joked about delivering a magical plugin, `acts_as_impenetrable`, that solved all of your security needs. There’s still no magic bullet for security, but I’d like to contribute a smidge of code that brings us a step closer.
 
 Rails has the ability to mitigate [cross-site scripting attacks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) in the form of its [ActionView::Helpers::TextHelpers\#sanitize](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#M000516) method. This method won’t catch every clever XSS out there, but it sure helps. Sadly, `sanitize` is unavailable by default from your models and controllers; the expected usage pattern is that you’ll handle sanitization in your view, ex: `<%= sanitize(`story.title) \>@ or `<%=h `story.body\>@.

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 It’s been nice to see that there’s some interest in Acts As Sanitized.
 
 [John Nunemaker](http://addictedtonew.com/) referred me to the [White List](http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/) plugin by [Rick Olsen](http://techno-weenie.net/), which seeks to solve a similar problem but for views, not models. Rick himself then mentioned that the `sanitize` method passes only a fraction of the test cases that he’s adapted from Rsnake’s [XSS Cheat Sheet](http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html), something I’m well aware of.

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 In order of viewing.
 
 [Children of Men](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/) is not a science fiction film. It’s not about the future, and its not about what life on earth would be like if the human species went sterile. Its a film about war, and about right now. The metaphor of a world without children that is, a world without a future is devastating. I found it hard to watch and harder to look away.

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 I’ve got a full-blown [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/) addiction. There are plenty of ways to get my fix throughout the day: RSS, IM, SMS, [Twitterriffc](http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific), or just looking at the dang site itself.
 
 But I’m also addicted to [Growl](http://growl.info/), the global notification system for Mac OS X (that Apple *should* be shipping with Leopard, cough). Throughout the day I have all sorts of data pouring across the bottom of my screen thanks to Growl, from incoming emails to IM status messages to completed downloads. Twitter updates would fit right in!

diff --git a/_posts/2007-01-22-attending-sxsw-interactive-2007_22.md b/_posts/2007-01-22-attending-sxsw-interactive-2007_22.md
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 I just nailed down my [flight](http://www.aa.com/), [hotel](http://www.wyndham.com/hotels/AUSWC/main.wnt), and registration for [South by Southwest Interactive 2007](http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/) (SXSWi). I’ll be there Saturday through Tuesday, strictly for the Interactive portion of the conference.
 
 SXSWi has come recommended to me for some time, but the wishy-washy content of many of the panels and keynotes never sold me. Over the years I’ve realized that what everyone says about conferences is true: its not about the content, its about the conversations between talks.

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 James Duncan Davidson [made a point](http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2007/01/more_on_java_an.html) fairly similar to mine about the iPhone being closed to developers, albeit with a Java twist:
 
 > “So, you might not have Java in your iPhone. And you might not have an SDK, but you’ll certainly be able to run the all the best Java applications out there on your iPhone, as well as all the other great Web 2.0 applications, thanks to Safari.”

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 I just registered for [RailsConf 2007](http://conferences.oreillynet.com/rails/) after some internal debate about whether or not to attend.
 
 Ultimately, my decision was, as with [SXSWi](http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/), a social one. There are tons of interesting people in the Rails community attending that I’ve corresponded with, or read, or used code from. The opportunity to chat, kick around ideas, and buy much-deserved drinks is just too good to pass up.

diff --git a/_posts/2007-02-03-delicious-poll_03.md b/_posts/2007-02-03-delicious-poll_03.md
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 I’ve had a couple of requests to *not* include my daily [del.icio.us links](http://del.icio.us/al3x) in this blog’s feed.
 
 Would you prefer links or no links? Please vote via comment.
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 We’ll be in Portland from Thursday morning through Sunday evening. If you have any favorite must-see spots, do leave a comment.
 
 Everyone seems to love Portland. I’m hoping it lives up to the hype.
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 My participation in the show us your gems meme, which I first spotted on [Robby on Rails](http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/02/12/gems-gone-wild).
 
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 The site I announced a while back, [Peeramour](http://www.peeramour.com/), is now live and accepting testers.
 
 I wanted to have the whole thing up and running on the 14th, but I also want to do the proper launch right. The testing phase wont last forever, just long enough to get feedback from a group of motivated early adopters.

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 For previous travelogues on this site, I’ve broken up my experiences by day. Thats worked well for some trips, but I don’t think it would make for an interesting impression of Portland (besides, I was [Twittering](http://twitter.com/al3x) much of the trip from the chronological junkies). There was a fair deal of overlap in our activities from day to day, so instead Im grouping our experiences by topic.
 
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 We’ll be in San Francisco from Sunday the 18th to Sunday the 25th. It’s a business trip for me and a vacation for T. We’re staying downtown, near [MoMA](http://www.sfmoma.org/).
 
 If you’re in the Yay Area you’d like to hang out, let me know. We should be free in the evenings. I’m going to try to revisit old haunts and explore some new ones.
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 An [LG VX8600](http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/lg/vx8600.html), he replied. The tech said its had the lowest complaints of the past 3 months.

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 I’m happy to announce that today is my first official day as a full-time [Obvious](http://obvious.com/) employee.
 
 If you’re a frequent visitor to the [About Us](http://twitter.com/help/aboutus) page on [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/), you’ll notice that I’ve been on there for a while. That’s because I’ve been doing contract work on Twitter since earlier this year.

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 The information floodgates surrounding [SXSW](http://www.sxsw.com/) seem to have finally opened. Posts are frequently on [SXSW Baby](http://www.sxswbaby.com/) and every other blogger in my feed reader is mentioning their travel plans for Austin. Its exciting, no doubt.
 
 Probably the weakest information resource surrounding SXSW is the official site itself. Given that the interactive portion of the conference plays host to some of the worlds top designers and information architects, you’d think they could put together a calendar of panels thats remotely readable. The disjointed offerings in the [SXSW Toolbox](http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/) are little help. The [registrant directory](http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/reg_directory/) looks so broken and user-hostile in Safari that I popped over to Firefox just to double-check that it wasn’t a rendering issue. No, it isn’t. It just looks like My First Rails App. Yikes.

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 The logistics are basically fine. Even the wi-fi works most of the time. The conference center is somewhat confusing to navigate, but justifies/makes up for it in sheer immenseness. Even the most crowded talks have still had comfortable standing room.

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 Despite the positive comments on my poll a while back about whether on not to leave [my del.icio.us links](http://del.icio.us/al3x) in this blog’s feed, I’ve decided to remove them. Too many irked friends.
 
 My suggestion: [add me to your network](http://del.icio.us/help/network) on del.icio.us and subscribe to a combined feed for all your friends. I started doing this a couple weeks back. It’s handy.

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 We pack our stuff (books and household items; all the furniture is being given away) into a shipping container over the preceding weekend. Then we get on a plane, cat stowed in cargo, and go. There’s an apartment waiting for us in [Hayes Valley](http://www.sfgate.com/traveler/guide/sf/neighborhoods/hayesvalley.shtml). We might actually be crazy enough to drive to the local Ikea across the Bay Bridge that same afternoon. If we don’t, we won’t have any furniture. Our stuff arrives a while later.

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 1.  Install [PithHelmet](http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php) if necessary.

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 I’m flying from San Francisco to Portland at 0640 in the bloody morning on Friday, with the aim of being checked in to my hotel and at the conference by sometime during the opening keynote.
 
 Thenceforth, you’ll find the schedule of talks I’m attending at [MyConfPlan](http://myconfplan.com/conferences/RailsConf2007/users/al3x). Supposedly, my colleague from Twitter and I are giving a talk on Sunday at 10:45AM, but as of yet we’re not on the schedule. There’s no shortage of good sessions, though.

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 A lot of internet time has passed since the oft-referenced [interview](http://www.radicalbehavior.com/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne/) I did with Josh Kenzer back in March. We’ve learned a lot since then, but the most important lesson was that we’re not building a web application, we’re building a communications service for which the web is just another endpoint. Ruby has turned out to be a great language for building a communications service. With some work and coaxing, Rails has scaled up to keep pace with the demands on that service.

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 Since moving to the Bay Area several months ago, I’ve been asked by East Coast geeks what I think of the place. There is, at least for webby folks, the sense that it’s just a matter of time before you do a stretch in San Francisco. The sheer density of companies and projects is just too strong a pull.
 
 Despite having spent several months here this time around plus a couple months when I lived here in 2005, I still don’t feel like I have an accurate sense of all of San Francisco’s neighborhoods. I can navigate through some parts of the city, but far more of it is either hazy might-have-seens or pure mystery to me. I won’t, then, try to hold forth on geographic generalities and which neighborhood can beat up which other neighborhood’s dad. I lived in Hayes Valley when I first moved here because it’s charming and has a good comic book store. I now live in SOMA because it’s two blocks from my office and depopulated enough to be unobjectionable. I’m nothing approaching an authority.