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Administrivia

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004

Unregistered comments have been turned off on this thing because I receive maybe four comments a year that are legit and everything else is blogspam that MT-Blacklist notifies me about, annoyingly.
I may just leave things in this state and keep the current content archived.

MT-Blacklist Bug (sorry, Scott!)

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

The MT-Blacklist plugin that saves me from spam flagged two of Scott’s comments because they were on older entries. I clicked the “de-spam” link in the notification email, checked the box, and.. it.. deleted them. It thinks that “un-marking as spam” means “Deleting”. honk honk bug. Sorry!

In Praise of Moving Parts

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004

I grew up in the Transistor Age. When I was a child in the 1970s, the great selling point for any electrical device was that it had no moving parts. The salesman would rattle off a series of bullet points and then pause for effect and intone “and this baby has No Moving Parts. Nothing [...]

Starting up again: blogspam

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

I’m using this thing again and preparing to do some real work with it. Blog spam is out of control, so I required TypeKey registration. If anyone has a better idea, or a reason why TypeKey is horribly evil and must be destroyed, let me know by email or by registering with TypeKey and commenting [...]

I am miffed.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003

I wish to update my BLAWG with the remote XML-RPC client. But, none of them work for me. I get mysterious, cryptic XML errors instead. My logs show my nothing of value, just a “200 OK” in my web log, and a spew of incomprehensible XML in my client window.
I guess I can’t be cool [...]

This has not been a recording.

Friday, June 27th, 2003

You know those phone calls you get, where there’s an awkward silence at first and then you hear a click and a call-center person says “Hello, make I speak to [mangled version of your name]“? That’s a call from a predictive dialing system.