miniblog.

Why don't browsers use history or Alexa rank to highlight trustworthy sites? Gmail already warns me if I haven't emailed a person/domain before. This seems like a viable heuristic against phishing sites.

As blog comments become increasingly less fashionable, I've often seen people write "email me instead". Perhaps there's a compromise between these? A website could have a comment box that emailed the author. This minimises friction for commenters, but avoids spam on the site.

I've put on my retrocomputing hat today and emailed Symbolics regarding purchasing a license for Genera. I'm hoping it's cheap.