I’ve finally upgraded my WordPress to the newest version. There’s also a newer version of Akismet included, so hopefully when I deactivate some of my anti-spam comment features for the Blogathon on Saturday, I won’t get as much spam as I thought I might. If you see any problems with the blog, please let me […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
My first Wikipededia tweak
I just fixed a misspelling in the Wikipedia entry for M*A*S*H. Woohoo! I actually have made other changes to the Wikipedia, and created a couple entries in the past. But those were not under a username, and were simply recorded with the IP address I used at the time.
Vonage Abusing Your Friends
Vonage, the VoIP service, has a feature where their users can refer their friends to the service. If you sign up from one of those referrals, you get a free month of service; and your friend gets two free months. In March 2006, I asked one of my friends to refer me so I could […]
Using Apache to Block Image Leeches
Pronet Advertising advises you to “Protect Your Site’s Content” and they give a plug to a $200 tool that helps those poor souls using IIS as their web server. If you’re running the open source apache web server, here’s a free solution I worked out after many MySpace users starting embedding funny photos from PlanetMike.com […]
Web Designers, Tech Gurus, It’s ALA Survey-time
A List Apart is conducting a survey of web professionals. It took me less than 5 minutes to fill it out.
Top Ten Thoughts on Beginning Podcasting
Lorelle asked “What Blogs Make the Best Podcast Blogs?” I have two podcasts: ShowBizRadio.net (theatre information for the Washington DC area) and ChristmasMusic247.com. Key things I’ve learned: Pick a publishing schedule and then keep it. Bandwidth usage can increase exponentially. For some reason China loves my ShowBiz podcast. I hit 32GB of downloads in March. […]
Blocking WordPress Comment Spam
Back in January I tried renaming the wp-comments-post.php file to avoid comment spammers. That worked for about 10 hours, then they started using the new file name. So I switched back to the default filename. Like I said back then “So unless you change the comment post filename regularly, it doesn’t do much good.” Well, […]
Google sending email to webmasters?
In Better badware notifications for webmasters, Google mentions they may send email to generic addresses (like webmaster@ and admin@) to help alert webmasters that their site has “bad” stuff on it. Please don’t send alerts to “generic” addresses. Those get only spam for me. It would be great to let us webmasters to set up […]
Powered by WordPress Directory
Fitting into the “Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?” category, Powered By WordPress – PoweredbyWP.com launched recently. It’s a directory of the zillions of blogs and web sites that are operated by the WordPress CMS (Content Management System). I’ve started submitting my blogs to it, hopefully they will be approved.
Web 2.0 Explained in Under Five Minutes
A very cool video explaining how and why the Web is so important.