Those of you who know me, know that I don’t follow sports. I’m interested, in at least a theoretical way, with playing sports, but not really with sitting down and watching them. Somehow, I find it hard to feel the empathy and irrational sense of empowerment that comes with a very special brand of obsessive-compulsive […]
For folks who have the good fortune of being able to go to the Oreilly’s Mac OS X Conference, but haven’t signed up yet, I have a 30% off discount code for you, courtesy of the Inside Mac Radio show. First you have to be an Apple employee, or an Apple Developer connection member (if you’re not you can sign up here— the Online membership is free!) and then use this code in the discount area of your registration: macosx04ae
Enjoy!
I found out this morning that Christopher Reeve died last night. Not only was he Superman, but an inspiration to me. He was one of the few people that didn’t give up. When life dealt him a spinal cord injury, paralyzing him, he didn’t just fade away— he became an outspoken proponent for research into repairing spinal cord injuries, and an opponent of President Bush’s shortsighted severe limitations on stem cell research which, if allowed, could have someday allowed Reeves and many others to walk again. I don’t believe in the afterlife, so it’s hard for me to feel comforted that he’s anywhere other than in the ground. A great man is gone from this earth, and it’s up to us to see that it wasn’t in vain. May he rest in peace.
A series of posters detailing different aspects of the original Macintosh, and just what made it so revolutionary.
So, my PowerBook (just recently saved from disfigurement by the fine folks at MBS) being named FireBook, and my recently acquired portable hard drive being named FireWalkWithMe, I decided to create a custom icon for it. With a little help from GIS and IconBuilder, I came up with this quick and dirty Laura Palmer icon. Feel free to download and share the love.
So, I got a series of emails yesterday that seem at once like the recent Paypal spoof crap and also perhaps legit, if only because they don’t include the usual link “click here to verify your account, and enter your information on our fraudulent website.” One of them said that I may have been in […]
Just in the past few days, I’ve been seeing a new form of comment spam coming through, and making it past my spam filters. Instead of using the words that they know I will probably have on my block list, I instead get a string of HTML codes like:
internetcasinos
…which ends up giving me "internet casinos", which my filter would normally detect.
It seem the simplest solution is just to put the string &# into my filter list, which should catch these letter substitutions — but once I add that, I get all sorts of errors from the WordPress code that runs the spam filter, because it doesn’t like the #. Anyone else have any suggestions?
Update:
With the help of WPBlacklist, I seem to have stemmed the tide. Thanks, Farook.org, and the rest of the WP community!