BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. After a couple of test trackbacks yesterday, I knew that today most likely we would start seeing trackback spam, and so it has proved. I would suggest that people turn off trackback capability if they’re concerned about receiving spam, until safeguards are put on this other rather huge, gaping hole […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doug points to a post by Broad at Bat who discusses a recent dinner with friends and one couple’s behavior to each other. Specifically, she focuses on the wife, Sandy’s, behavior to her husband, Mark. Later, Mark was telling us a story – nothing rude or anything, just something that happened earlier in the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was at the pharmacy today and stopped by the mint and gum section to pick up some cinnamon Altoids. I like all the mint flavors, but cinnamon is my favorite. They were out of cinnamon, but did have some new flavors I hadn’t seen before, including a line of […]
Ed Cone shined his journalistic light on Karl Martino and Philly Future in a nice question and answer interview. Philly Future is the Philadelphia equivalent of The St. Louis Bloggers, and then some–that aggregator is a nice option. Perhaps we need a Planet St. Lous. I liked Karl’s advice for integration between alternative media, such as local weekly newspapers, and webloggers: […]
I finished up the base functionality for the OsCommerce application, including replacing the category implementation. OsCommerce is one of the more used applications for store fronts, and is open source to boot. However, the code is obtuse and cumbersome, and not especially well documented; you change the code in one spot, you end up breaking […]