Archive for the 'blogging tech' Category

Fun with drafts

Saturday, February 21st, 2004

Bug. Patch. Can’t use patches? That’s a shame. Incomprehensible as it can be, there are a lot of things Unix got right, and diff and patch are two huge ones. If I need to tell you how to change two lines in a file to fix something, I can either save a copy before I […]

Blacklist these two domains

Friday, February 20th, 2004

That comment? The one where you followed the link, and it looked like a weblog? Look again, at the source of the page.

An audacious comment spam hack

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

Say, Typepad hosting at wblogs.com? (No, you idiot Phil, spoofed Typepad hosting at wblogs.com) If I registered radio.wblogs.com, I could do something interesting with it, I bet.

FUD 101

Sunday, February 15th, 2004

If you don’t like something, it’s probably the fault of the CEO. The CEO of the parent corporation, even.

Previous and next in category

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

A simple plugin to do PreviousEntry and NextEntry in the same category and the current entry.

One ping’s enough, Jack

Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

Could someone who actually understands Perl and Movable Type tell me if this makes sense? Back in the early days of Trackback crapflooding, when the flood was all supposedly coming from one source URL, I got to wondering what it would take to only accept one ping from one URL to one Trackback URL. It’s […]

Throttling easterners

Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

If you run multiple blogs in more than one timezone with one installation of MT 2.66x, you (or, worse yet, your visitors) may have noticed that commenting on a blog that’s farther east will prevent you from commenting on a blog farther west from that same IP address until the local time catches up. Comment […]

A foolish consistency

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004

Best to be careful what you say, when you branch out from hating one thing to hating another.

Thinking about comment spam

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Whether or not Simon thinks it’s boring, I’m still interested in blogging about comment spam. Sue me.

A tale of two bug reports

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Report bugs quickly, and gently. Escalate your reports in a measured way. If you can’t live with the bug, quietly move to something else. Well, unless it’s Microsoft’s fault, that is.