four times in two months

23 Feb 2007 – 11:38
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (2)

i upgraded my blog again last night, to help joen with some bugsquashing on Fauna RC2. after not touching my wordpress install for the better part of a year, it's odd to be updating it this many times in 2 months. I still had to do ...

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Save your contact page from spam

18 Jan 2007 – 1:59
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (1)

there are a couple of different methods for blocking email harvesting bots from your contact page. Some involve javascript and obfuscating the email address. some involve putting the address in an image. my new favorite trick involves both.
first, go get your email address turned into escaped ...

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Exposing the Lurkers

15 Jan 2007 – 3:21
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (4)

Engtech is posting everywhere about MyBlogLog making a widget for Wordpress.com blogs. I don't know that the Custom CSS upgrade is actually necessary. I hope not, background-color:teal; is really ugly, so i changed it.

Kudos to MyBlogLog. they're pulling the same trick as feedburner's feedflare, ...

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turning off akismet

9 Jan 2007 – 10:22
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (0)

my attempts at delurking aren't going very well.  nonetheless, raven's anti-spam has brought spam to a dead stop.  after commenting myself (man i'm uncool), i found this:  akismet was blocking the good comments.  not that they were hard to find in the list, since there were no spam ...

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in which it becomes clear that scoble is, in fact, a freeloader.

9 Oct 2006 – 8:01
By adam | Posted in blogging | Also tagged | Comments (1)

You're a VIP, and you're still not happy? Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Seriously, you already got a custom template, and the right to run ads on a service that no one else does, and you want more?

I mean, there are ...

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