BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I think we technical folk are too clever for our own good. The more gimcracks we put into out tools, the more gimcracky things crawl through. We tweak just to tweak, and add far more moving parts to applications than are needed, or even desired. In addition to making […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The vig-rx blog virus, otherwise known as comment spammer, is using Google against us. After stealing another IP address, as expected. Weblogs being targeted are being found through a Google search. Example is here. Aren’t open web services a wonderful thing? Go ahead – all open comment MT weblogs on this […]
Normally I don’t attend festivals with lots of people about, but I made exceptions for two events this weekend: the St. Louis Air Show and the Japanese Festival. The weather was wet and stormy, but held off raining for the most part. However, it was very hot, very humid, and there was little breeze. I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. AKMA wrote a response to my recent Shinto Commandments, in addition to Joi Ito’s writing, and Jonathon Delacour’s commentary on what we discussed. AKMA is a Minister and a Professor of Theology. More than that, he is a Christian. He wrote: Among the things I stand for is the premise that the God about […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From the trackback entries I’ve received from an old comment spamming entry, I gather the spammers have been out and about recently. I received a recent comment spam myself – a shotgun message that seems to provide links to everything your kid wants to know about, but you don’t want […]