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		<title>CAPTCHAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gather 'round, boys and girls, for I am going to tell you the story of the CAPTCHAs. Once upon a time, the Internet was a wonderful place, full of intelligent people, and useful sources of information. People could have serious conversations in public forums and everything was good.

Then came things like AOL and the Freenets came along and suddenly this wonderful place started filling up with not-so-intelligent people. The useful sources of information became less useful as ads started to appearing in the middle of the conversation threads because some people thought it was acceptable to post their ads wherever they went. Some even went so far as to create programs that surfed the web and automatically posted their ads wherever they went.

The intelligent people who ran the sites didn’t like this, so they started coming up with ways to confirm that the messages being posted in conversations were being written by people and not ‘bots.

And thus the CAPTCHAs were born.

Visit my blog to read the rest of the story. :)]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2010/02/07/we-apologize-for-the-inconvenience/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=we-apologize-for-the-inconvenience</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ARGH!!!!!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I moved my blog to a new server this weekend. Because the IP address changed I had to update the DNS records for gordon.dewis.ca. Whenever you do this sort of thing, it can take a while for the new information to propagate across the Internet. The records have been out there for a while now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009: The year in review (version 2.0)</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2010/01/08/2009-the-year-in-review-version-2-0/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=2009-the-year-in-review-version-2-0</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[looking back]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a summary of 2009 for a while, but version 1.0 just did not come together the way I wanted, so I&#8217;ve abandoned it in favour of version 2.0.  Hopefully this one works out a bit better. 2009 was a busy year for me on a number of different fronts. Blogging According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Dark Side, Exmortis! (We have cookies.)</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/08/18/welcome-to-the-dark-side-exmortis-we-have-cookies/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=welcome-to-the-dark-side-exmortis-we-have-cookies</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Exmortis's Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine who has been dis&#8217;ing bloggers, and blogging in general, for years has come over to the dark side. You&#8217;ll find a link to his new blog, A Moment in Exmortis&#8217;s Mind, in the rightside column and also on my Ottawa Blogroll page. Be sure to go and harass him. Lots. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress 2.8.4</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/08/11/wordpress-2-8-4/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress-2-8-4</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 2.8.4 has been released. While most releases are important, this one is particularly important. It addresses a security vulnerability that was discovered yesterday. The vulnerability allows a very specially crafted URL could allow a malicious individual to bypass a security check to verify a user requested password reset. It only affects the first account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress 2.8.3</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/08/04/wordpress-2-8-3/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress-2-8-3</link>
		<comments>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/08/04/wordpress-2-8-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 2.8.3 has been released. It addresses a couple of things missed when a privilege escalation issue was fixed in 2.8.1. Applying the upgrade was a simple matter of a precautionary backup of the database (always backup your database when doing an upgrade just in case) and clicking the upgrade link in the administration panel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress 2.8.2</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/07/23/wordpress-2-8-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress-2-8-2</link>
		<comments>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/07/23/wordpress-2-8-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 2.8.2 was released a couple of days ago. It resolves an XSS vulnerability. Comment author URLs were not fully sanitized so they could redirect you from the admin panel to somewhere else if a malicious commenter was persistent. As usual, the upgrade was quick and painless and consisted of backing up the database and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress 2.8.1</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/07/10/wordpress-2-8-1/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=wordpress-2-8-1</link>
		<comments>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/07/10/wordpress-2-8-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress 2.8.1 has been released. The changes includes some bug fixes and tightening up of the security for the some of the administration pages for some plugins. There are a bunch of other changes, too, which you can read about on the WordPress Dev Blog. Upgrading consisted of backing up the database for good luck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-strike update</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/02/02/post-strike-update/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=post-strike-update</link>
		<comments>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/02/02/post-strike-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gordon.dewis.ca/?p=1026</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In recognition of the fact that the OC Transpo strike is over now that the ATU has ratified the agreement to go to binding arbitration I&#8217;ve removed the little anti-ATU 279 logo that&#8217;s been gracing the header picture of my blog the last few weeks. Share and Enjoy:]]></description>
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		<title>ATU 279 votes</title>
		<link>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/01/08/atu-279-votes/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=atu-279-votes</link>
		<comments>http://gordon.dewis.ca/2009/01/08/atu-279-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gordon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you know that Local 279 of the Amalgamated Transit Union is on strike. Today, they union is being forced to take the last offer from the City to the members for a vote. The union executive is strongly encouraging its members to vote &#8220;no&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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