Isotropic is …
... my personal blog.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write here is simply my personal, probably ill-formed, opinion and does not represent the views, beliefs, positions, or opinions of any other person or entity.
Daily Archives: 2008-04-13
13 Apr 2008
Quick and Dirty Perl – #001
Recently a coworker requested a quick and dirty way to extract a list of successfully delivered email addresses from a qmail log file. A message had been sent to several hundred recipients at example.com. Unfortunately, one if the domain’s two MX hosts would permanently reject messages, while the other would defer some messages [...]
13 Apr 2008
The Star II
This is a followup to my previous post The Star.
The most powerful explosion ever observed may have been even more powerful than first thought. Nearly three weeks after the bright ‘gamma-ray burst’ occurred, it is still outshining its host galaxy, dumbfounding astronomers with its amazing longevity.
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For a brief period on 19 March, it was easily [...]
