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June 2006

1-2-Google!

I don’t know why I thought this was so cool. Maybe it’s my long standing background with Spreadsheets, from when I worked at Lotus. You remember Improv, don’t you? Or maybe you don’t…

Anyway, “Google Plans to Release Spreadsheet Application” !

“Google Inc. plans Tuesday to release a Web-based spreadsheet application, in a further foray into Microsoft Corp.’s traditional turf…

… Google Spreadsheets follows Google’s March purchase of a company offering Web- based word processor Writely. The two free Web-based Google ...

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Comment spam – solved for now?

The other day I complained about comment spam on my two blogs. Comment spam is when fake comments are added to a blog post that include links to some random site. They are supposedly put there by spammers to generate traffic to their sites, as well as try to improve their site’s ratings in Google. Whether it works for them I don’t know, all I know is that it’s a pain in the butt for me.

I am now using a Movable Type plugin called HMPassphrase. It’s very simple and effective. Whenever anyone wants to post a comment they have to read instructions on the web page and type in a cer...

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Notice the new del.icio.us feature I am using?

The feature isn’t new, it’s actually pretty old. It’s also very poorly documented. But it’s new to me. I’ve configured del.icio.us to automatically create a post to my blog of all the tags I’ve submitted in the last 24 hours.

If you are a del.icio.us user, look under “settings”, “experimental”, “daily blog posting” for the setting. Then ask me or google for an explanation of what the fields mean.

Combined with the Tagging feature in BlogBridge, it allows me to post to my blog (virtually) with almost no effort. So when I am traveling (like I was the last 2 days) I can still show some semblance of activity on my blog. Very cool.

Will it make me a lazy blogger? What’s a lazy blogger anyway?

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May 2006

Help with movable type spam?

Both this blog and the BlogBridge have been getting spammed more and with both comment and trackback spam. It’s becoming a real pain. I’ve poked around my Movable Type settings looking for solutions but I am sure someone who knows MT well could tune my configuration with ease. Anyone out there want to lend a hand? Please email me!

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[GEEK] OPML Camp was a lot of fun!

OPML Camp was yesterday and today, so it’s over now. We had good attendance and some really good discussions and interesting demos. Here are some highlights:

We talked about tools, both brand new, not yet written, and existing

These tools do all kinds of interesting OPML related processing

Grazr – A really cool web page widget to view and traverse an OPML structure

OPMLSearch – Google for OPML files across the web

OPML Workstation – A library of OPML files, plus an editor to create and edit them

OPML Editor – Another tool for editing ...

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All you never wanted to know about colonoscopies

Our friend Dave Weinberger shares: “I had my first colonoscopy today. They didn’t find anything, except a piece of fruitcake I ate in 1978. But I figured if Katie Couric can show her colon on national TV to encourage people to get checked, then I should too.”

The only surprise is that this is his first colonoscopy. David, what took you so long? (I guess my second surprise is that he didn’t link to Wikipedia’s definition of Colonoscopy.)

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