Just a Vapor

When I switched over from Movable Type to WordPress over a month ago, I did so thinking that WordPress would be better for stopping comment spam. I’m finding that there is little difference in this regard between the two. When…

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I’ve got about a dozen invitations available to get GMail accounts. If anyone wants one, let me know.

This morning I had a little setback that reminded me of a great program for the PC. On my Mac at work, I deleted a file I thought I didn’t need any more, and it turns out I did need…

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I’ve got three GMail invites. Anyone interested?

In my time as a low-key blogger, I’ve come across a plethera of terms that are unique to bloggers. I thought I’d put together a list of terms and what they mean. Bleg – To use your blog to “beg”…

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As a guy who uses Macs at work, but is a PC lover to the very core of my being, this just has to be shared. (Note: there is a little but of foul language, not a ton though.) Hat…

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A new tool to fight spam hits spammers where it counts, their servers. I may have to give this one a try, my home computer runs Sunday night through Friday afternoon every week, and is only used about 15% of…

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I’m posting this partially as a complaint, but also as a tip. I found out that an image I have on my site (that does not fall under the creative commons license I instituted) was being leached by another blog.…

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Lately I’ve been geting hammered with comment spam again. MT-Blacklist has stopped some of it, but a lot of it is getting through. I decided the only effective way to deal with it is to close comments on entries older…

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This will not only pass the time, it also gets a little addicting.

I learned of this cool site on G4TechTV’s The Screen Savers. It’s a cool way to find good deals for stuff on eBay. Fat Fingers automatically generates countless misspellings for you and provides a link to ebay with those misspellings.…

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I’ve said it before, I love MT-Blacklist. What’s become a very useful feature is that you can set it up to email you whenever someone leaves a comment. People think that if they leave spam in a really old post,…

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Do you have search engines finding things you don’t want them to find? Creating a robots.txt file will keep them from indexing folders you want to remain off of their listings. Inside the text file, put a line saying “Useragent:…

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Since I began blogging, I have learned a lot about HTML coding. I had a little training in a single computer class I had to take in college, where we did HTML somewhere between Microsoft Word and Excel. Since then…

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Anybody know how to configure Apache 1.3.26 to pass off subdomains to another machine behind a router? I had it set up once, before I actually needed it, but can’t get it to work now. I have “mydomain.com” which goes…

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