AOl is now allowing their email users to disable the ads that are attached in the footer of their outgoing email messages. Simply sign into your account. Then click on “settings” and then the “compose” option. Select “message footer” and you’ll see this: “The message footer appears below each email that you send and allows […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Two Ideas for Mitigating Future WordPress Vulnerabilities
This weekend there has been a plethora of news stories about pre-2.8.4 versions of WordPress being hacked (Lorelle, Matt or the Guardian). The official way to protect yourself is to install an upgraded version of the system. My first suggestion: The administrators of a WordPress blog should be sent an email once a new release […]
Easy Way to Watch Your Web Server Log
Based on an idea from John Graham-Cumming regarding watching his log files with single characters, I have written a brief perl program that prints a single character based on the status code logged to my apache log file. Simply change the file in the second line to the apache access log file you’d like to […]
DoFollow Rapist
Be on the lookout for a “seo” rapist. This guy (his blog doesn’t deserve a link) is writing a new custom search engine of only blogs that don’t nofollow. His spider hits your site, then within seconds every URL in your sitemap is hit, leading to high bandwidth and server resource usage. I recommend blocking […]
Making Dokuwiki Easier: Add ?do=edit to URLs
I use Dokuwiki for one of my site’s wiki systems. And I’ve removed many of the admin functions from the templates, since I’m the only one who can edit the site. I created a javascript bookmark that adds the ?do=edit to the url so I can easily make changes to the page. javascript:location.href=decodeURIComponent(window.location.pathname)+’?do=edit’
Using 301 vs. RewriteRule
A few weeks ago, I wrote out a series of steps aimed at Fighting Bots Via Their Bad Requests. After watching my logs since then, I’ve noticed I made an incredibly stupid mistake. Bad bots do not follow 301 redirects! What does that mean? If a regular browser encounters a web page, image, or document […]
Cancelled the Washington Post
This week my wife and I looked at the online options for the weekly tv listings, something the Washington Post suggested we do since they wanted to stop including the TV Week magazine with the Sunday edition. The online option is fairly useful. And since we only watch a handful of shows regularly, it’s not […]
The Incredible Shrinking Washington Post
I currently subscribe to the Washington Post, Sundays only. Three years ago I could read through the entire paper in a couple hours. Now, with the dropping of a few sections (TV Week), and combining sections together (Book World, Editorials, Business section), and reducing the amount of original writing available in the printed paper, I […]
FaceBook Username
Facebook has allowed you to set up a username for your account. So you can now see my Facebook pages at http://facebook.com/planetmike.
Facebook, Meet 2009. 2009, Meet Facebook.
I agree with Kevin Burton’s thoughts at Facebook Pages are Just Blogs. I just wish I had written out the part about Facebook lacking RSS or other feeds first. I hate Monday mornings when I load up Facebook and have to hit the silly “Older Posts” button a bunch of times to catch up with […]