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Several people wanted to contribute to this blog, as a result, we have been working on a new project for the last few weeks, it is called usefulfor.com. It is not my personal blog any more, it is an open forum were other people will also contribute. You can also contribute

I have split my posts of this blog into three communities:

• /security: information security related content. Techniques, howtos, security advisories, etc.
• /ruby: ruby and ruby on rails related articles.
• /nothing: Any article that doesn’t fit in the previous categories goes here.

We will give more info in the site when we have it! In the mean time, you can subscribe to the site RSS feed.

By the way, this is how it looks:

good night and good luck

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miniconomics.com is an easy-to-use tool designed to manage your personal expenses that we have been developing over the last few months. The key benefits of the tool at this point in time:

• It is alive, changing every day, release early, release often. miniconomics.com is under a never ending churning process.
• It is simple, a no brainer, you have categories and you have expenses, you put expenses in your categories and miniconomics.com gives you all sorts of useful information, stats and nice shinny graphs.
• Is accessible, forget about maintaing a spreadsheet with your data in your home computer or laptop. Use an online service, use it no matter where you are, no matter when, just log in and add your expenses.
• It is as geek as a tool can be. We are still developing it and we are keen on trying all sorts of approaches. We have some cool toughts on plugins and addons that we will be developing in the future. Give us your feedback and let us know what you do you want out of the tool, chances are we will develop it!
• miniconomics.com is free, free to use, free to register, free to enjoy, free to everything

I hope you decide to give it a try (you don’t have to register for a test drive) and let us know what you think. And of course if you like it, just spread the word.

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Directly inspired by The Art of War of Sun Tzu, yesterday I found the following piece of wisdom:

After years of thinking about, writing about, and filtering messages, I’ve decided that the best strategy for me is to not filter spam, but instead to filter non-spam

The full article at Reverse Spam Filtering: “Winning Without Fighting” by Nancy McGough.

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A new puzzle, this time from Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to Better Ideas by Jams L. Adams:

One morning, exactly at sunrise, a Buddhist monk began to climb a tall mountain. A narrow path, no more than a foot or two wide, spiraled around the mountain to a glittering temple at the summit. The monk ascended at varying rates of speed, stopping many times along the way to rest and eat dried fruit he carried with him. He reached the temple shortly before sunset. After several days of fasting and meditation he began his journey back along the same path, starting at sunrise and again walking at variable speeds with many pauses along the way. His average speed descending was, of course, greater than his average climbing speed. Prove that there is a spot along the path that the monk will occupy on both trips at precisely the same time of day.

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Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Or that is what it is said in the official web site Do not forget to check API and docs. It is worth having a look, because the learning curve is really fast!

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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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