Sorry, I couldn’t resist a little alliteration today. I’ve had a flickr account for a while now, and its definitely a slick site if you’re looking for a good photo sharing site. If you’re using Kodak’s photo sharing site, switch now. I’ll be honest now, if you send a link to a kodak gallery, I’ll […]
What are some strategies for keeping track of comments you leave on other people’s blogs? Knowing when someone replies to an interesting comment encourages discussion and participation. Some feeds provide comment feeds, for the site as a whole or for individual posts, but before long you might end up with dozens of feeds in your
Version 1.1 of my my preferred javascript library, jQuery, was released today. They have a great motto – “write less, do more” and as far as I can tell, they live up to it. The release notes claim speed improvements of 10-20x for selectors over those in 1.0.4. The release includes some interesting new features
One reason why I’ve been blogging less frequently recently, is because I updated the visual design and code behind my blog and web site. The update stems from a more major update to my Dad’s webiste, which at the moment is in the "client review" stage . I won’t go into the back end details
Over at Hit & Run, they’re linking to the news that Golden State Fence, the company hired to build the fence on our border with Mexica, has pled guilty to hiring illegal immigrants. The IHT has a slightly longer story. I wonder if stories like the following amuse or depress the Onion’s writers. Federal immigration
I installed to Akismet this weekend, to deal with a new flood of comment spam that had been getting by mod_security and my other measures. It literally took me 15 minutes to install, thanks to the libraries already available for it. In my case, I used the PHP5 library from Aching Brain dot Net. So
Last week, I moved this blog, email, and other sites including Soccer Blogs, to a newer, more powerful server. The database is mauve, which Sandy tells me is the best color for a database. You should notice its a lot peppier – about 100% peppier, than the old server which was beginning to show its
I’ve had to put in a number of checks and anti-spam measurements to counteract s slew of comment and trackback spam. If you try to leave a comment and run into errors, please email me to let me know.
If you’re using Internet Explorer, or are forced to use it at work, you should seriously consider switching browsers until Microsoft deems it time to release a patch to the latest Internet Explorer security hole. This one is pretty serious as it does not require any action on the user’s part beyond visiting a compromised
Via Network-Centric Advocacy, I had a small “aha” moment, from a piece they linked to on AlterNet, Blogging While Black. To me, it resonates with why many communications folks within an organization don’t know what to make of blogging. Being the Communications Director somewhere means your supposed to be crafting , filtering, and controlling the