phil ringnalda

I’m ready for whatever’s next, as long as it can say what TrackBack should, “if you liked that, read this” rather than what TrackBack now mostly says, “I linked to that.”

Sometimes, weblogging requires more than just a link and three words. If you really like something, why not spend a couple of sentences selling it?

Rethinking my take on nofollow: if we’re stuck with it, we might just as well warp it to our ends.

You can have my divs and style attributes when you pry them from my cold… it’ll do that? Right now? Well, hey!

A few thousand random words on nofollow, leading to a conclusion where I surprise myself and suggest that Googlebot wouldn’t do the nasty with Asa Dotzler without using a condom.

How am I supposed to write a post about the guts of nsInternetSearchService.cpp so that everyone from WWR listeners to core Mozilla hackers will both understand and not be bored senseless? I seem to have forgetten that blogging skill over my last sabbatical.

My old right-click BlogThis extension, updated for the new Extension Manager at last, and now without the abrupt cutoff of selected text.

If your server is sitting behind a reverse caching proxy, TransparentProxyIPs will let you finally record the proper IP address for people leaving comments.

mt.cfg does document TempDir as where uploaded files are temporarily stored. What it fails to mention is that it also determines whether or not your search throttle even works, on some shared hosts.

Documenting the undocumented configuration directives: OneHourMaxPings and OneDayMaxPings set a per-blog limit on how many TrackBack pings you will accept.