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Technology Weblogging

Comment and trackback spamming

The discussion continues on comment spamming and a couple of people have taken my initial quick fix and expanded on it nicely. Jennifer from Scripty Goddess has taken to solution into the MT tmpl files, adding the hidden field to processing.tmpl. Brad Choate came up with a fairly complex solution that, while not keeping a determined spammer out, would force the […]

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Diversity Technology Weblogging

Links at twenty paces

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Christine staged a Blog Debate, during which Ciscley commented about guys being reluctant to move to Moveable Type because it’s popular. She wrote: I think (I *know* in my personal blogging circle and I’m generalizing from there) that most of the people that are uncomfortable with the popularity of MT are guys. It’s like […]

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Just Shelley

Itty bitty living space

It’s not often that one can room with an ex-husband and manage to remain best friends. It just goes to show that though I may be firey, difficult, opinionated and hard to live with online, I’m a soft, loveable, easy going charmer offline. Well, no, not really, but it was a nice try. Anyway, the […]

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Burningbird

Change is good

If change is good, then I’m heading into truly grand times. Effective now, the domains yasd.com, dynamicearth.com, p2psmoke.org, and burningbird.net (and several others) have been merged into the primary domain of burningbird.net. I’ll be using Movable Type to manage the content for all, but instead of creating a ‘weblog’ for each domain, I’m creating one for each sub-directory: Articles, Distributed […]

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Burningbird

Dueling nameservers

The nameserver change has finally propagated throughout the universe of the Internet and you should all have access to this page on the new server. Additionally, you should be seeing HTML pages rather than PHP pages for the individual entries and category archive pages. In the next few weeks, Burningbird, and all my other web […]