News You Can Bruise for 2005 January 10

But, I won't absolutely insist that you treat me right. The subject of my CodeCon presentation, long a secret, has been revealed as the Ultra Gleeper, a recommendation engine for web pages. Yes, I created the thing people have been complaining about not having for nine years. And it does a pretty good job.

It still needs work, but I've got a whole month still to put off doing that work. I meant to work on it this weekend, but instead I wrote a goofy story about cannibalism. Good job, me.

This sounds like an easy way you could make some good money, if you can get used to fleecing the gullible without feeling guilty, (not, in my experience, a strength of the Richardson/Whitney bloodline, but associated more in my mind with the trickster Calls). It monetizes the skills I said during Christmas you should monetize, but is a whole lot higher margin than making collage crafts. Link via Accordion Guy.

It looks like you can't use a text file to drive a RewriteMap if the URLs you're rewriting to are longer than 1024 bytes. Is this accurate? Does anyone else consider this a blot on mod_rewrite (as though it wasn't already bespeckled with blots)? I'm using a .dbm file instead, which doesn't have this problem, but it's aggravating.