Last week I started looking through my “page not found” (404) errors. It’s been interesting to say the least, with nearly 800 bad requests since then, most of which have been various attacks in trying to mislead people. I address most of these attacks or probes by re-routing the request to a robot block system […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Publishing Your Blog on Kindle: The Agreement
While looking through the agreement for publishing your blog on a Kindle, I found the Terms of Service include 3,994 words. It’s 11 pages when I copy and paste the text into a new text document in OpenOffice. Reading through the document, it actually looks like that Amazon will create a new feed to be […]
Comment Policy
The comment policy on most of my blogs is: use a real name (first and last names), and if you include a link to a web site, the web site shouldn’t be pure advertising drivel. Something like “Jones Travel Blog” or “Something Tips and Tricks” would not be approved, as those sites are just wanting […]
Google Wave
Google set up an email list for people who want to know more about the Google Wave system. The Google Wave team asks for something interesting (Haikus, sonnets and ASCII art all accepted). Here’s my haiku: What is Google Wave? Is it email? IM? Both? Is it the future? There’s also a video of the […]
Moving Away From Google Feedburner
I’ve decided to move away from Google Feedburner. I’ve deactivated my FeedSmith plugin, and have submitted changes to the domain name system. I am so glad that I used the MyBrand option when I set up my feeds. So my Feedburner feed which was http://feeds.planetmike.com/planetmikedotcom now refers browsers and feed readers to http://www.planetmike.com/feed/ I set […]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.6.5
I’ve just upgraded all of my blogs to WordPress 2.6.5. I also upgraded some plugins that were a little out of date. Everything seems to be running along nicely.
WordPress Theme Directory After Four Months
Last summer, WordPress opened their brand new Theme Directory with a whole bunch of themes. Three themes to be exact (Dum-Dum, Tarski, and Monotone I believe), with less than 1,000 downloads the first day. Four months later, after a lot of steady work by designers from around the world, the directory hosts 680 themes, with […]
Odd Comment Spam Attempts
Starting on November 10th at 10:29am (EST), running through this morning at 6:30am, I have received dozens of comment spam attempts across most of my WordPress blogs. They all followed the same basic format: Deneen Carrillo | aejqtb@lobhyi.com | IP: 94.102.60.151 5wj9j1bdvd74zbcv A real looking name, an obviously fake email address (usually with a non-existent […]
iWork ’08 Demo Requires Your Email Address
I’ve been loading up my new iMac, and loving it. I also downloaded the iWork ’08 demo. You can’t run the demo unless you give Apple an email address. Wow, bizarre. Even if you uncheck the “keep me informed” box you still have to enter an email address. Mailinator comes in handy again.
Sometimes a Comment Is Simply a Comment
Comment spammers are definitely getting trickier, as noticed by Mark Ghosh in his article Comment Spam with more Kung Fu?. I’m starting to notice that the comment spammers are now starting to simply copy and paste an existing comment and submit as their own comment. My guidelines for identifying comment spam that doesn’t get caught […]