clearing out some old messages i've kept hanging around in my inbox:

• this article from webmonkey about the cross-site scripting problem is a good overview of why to be very careful in displaying what users send you on the web.
• here's a good resource about character encodings.
• not only is plan 9 a cool operating system from the original unix guys, but there's a wealth of interesting things in the various papers about the system.
• once upon a time, dean gaudet wrote an email to the apache development listtitled: “HTTP + XML + SCP = HTTP/ng”. interesting ideas. apache 2 is way more boring than this.