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 because it [...]
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. [...] For a brief period on 19 March, [...]
