Instructional comments
I realize that Akismet can’t catch all the spam comments in a blog, and my wine club site gets hit pretty hard with spam comments (over 110,000 since I moved it to WordPress), but how could any filter think that a comment entitled “instructional blow job” is not spam?
Posts of links
Some time ago, I started running an automated script each night that posted my del.icio.us links to my business blog. However, most of the things that I link to seem to be more related to this blog, so I’m now directing those posts here, in the Links category. By some weird coincidence (or not), the [...]
Blogging from Ubuntu
Finally got my Ubuntu installation done yesterday, and I’m just trying out the Blog Entry Poster to create this post offline then post. I don’t think that I’m going to use this blog writer very often: doesn’t support categories, which means that I have to go in and edit each post after publication to set [...]
Don’t piss off a blogger
I got someone fired today, and I’m not quite sure how I feel about that. He was republishing the full feed from my business blog on his blog, and although he was leaving a link back to my original post, he followed it with “posted by <his name>“. Some of my regular readers had even [...]
What’s in my sidebar?
I’ve had a couple of questions about how I create the sidebar to this blog, so thought that I’d document it here for posterity. First of all, I use the sidebar widgets WordPress plugin from Automattic, and a widget-friendly theme. After doing this for one blog, I would never again use a theme that didn’t [...]
WordPress 2.1.1 security hole
If you recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1, you might have a version of the code with a big security hole. WP recommends upgrading immediately to 2.1.2.
BPM blogging notoriety
I totally blew my blogging wad this week: 15,000 words in four days, which is some sort of record for me. With the exception of the previous post here about the Salton Sea that I did right after the flight to San Diego, all of it was for the Gartner Business Process Management (BPM) summit [...]
Outage earlier this week
Okay, that sucked — you may have noticed that this blog has been down since late Sunday night, or showed my corporate website instead of the blog. I’m constantly amazed at the ways that domain registrars and hosting providers can screw things up; there’s always some new frustration. I’m documenting the whole story here for posterity [...]
LibraryThing
Check out the new widget in my sidebar, just below the photos, called “What I’m Reading”. It’s generated from LibraryThing, where I can enter in books that I have in my library — using some very easy search tools that check Amazon and a number of other sources, so that I can just enter the [...]
On the move again
After just moving my wine club‘s hosting from Netfirms to 8i a couple of weeks ago, I find myself moving once again, to GoDaddy. I have this blog hosted at GoDaddy, plus a few other domains and small sites, and I know that it works for WordPress and my other needs. Unfortunately, although the performance [...]
