Author Archives: Sam

While most of the readers of this blog won’t care about this, Charlie and I got to meet one of our heroes last Saturday. In doing so, we got to hang out with one of the greatest group of people we’ve ever met. On Saturday, Adam Curry from the No Agenda podcast came into town to kick off his Hot Pockets 2008 tour across America.

When I heard on the show that Adam and Micky would be starting in Fredericksburg, I almost ran off the road. The tour is starting in MY town? Holy crap! I told friends, family, and coworkers as soon as I could. NO AGENDA IS COMING TO FREDERICKSBURG!

Today at work, I was searching the web for a semi-reasonable regular expression that I could use to validate email addresses. I say “semi-reasonable” because an RFC 822 compliant regular expression would be quite long. What led to the search was a user with a single-quote (‘) in their address. Damn the Irish.

Anyways, the point of this post is that in looking for a solution, I came across the concept of address tags:

Some mail services allow a user to append a tag to his email address (e.g., joeuser+tag@example.com). The text of tag may be used to apply filtering and to create single-use addresses.

Dear O’Reilly,

I want so many of your books. I don’t know what it is. I get a sudden rush when I see those cuddly animals. I even get a little turned on when I see those colored spines. I realize that I could never read a tiny fraction of your books in my lifetime. It doesn’t matter. I want to hold them in my arms as I fall asleep.

Recently, it has come to my attention that you are holding a contest where one lucky SOB can win his wishlist of precious O’Reilly titles. When I found out, I got so excited that I canceled dinner plans with my wife so that I could start putting together a list.