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Burningbird Weblogging

A start over

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As with Chris this weblog could go dark around the 4th of November if I can’t get everything moved and set up at a new host quickly enough. I still don’t have a new host yet and a few I have chatted with aren’t necessarily comfortable hosting a “cheap” site that has […]

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Connecting Weblogging

Can anybody hear me?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Anil Dash wrote about the battles he’s had with depression and encouraged other webloggers to discuss their own battles. Pretty gutsy thing to do, and smart — making good and healthy use of the increased exposure he received after his recent difficulties with the Little Green Football cartel. Dorothea responded about her own fights with […]

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Technology Weblogging

Comment spam quick fix

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Sam Ruby and Phil Ringnalda had good advice — don’t spend a lot of time on developing a solution to fixing the comment spam problem. Whatever I can do within the form, it’s a relatively simple matter for a spammer to read any form value and duplicate it in his spam blast. I […]

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Technology Weblogging

Comment spam problem continued

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In regards to the comment spam problem mentioned earlier, one idea kicked around was checking the http_referer to make sure that the comment post came from the same server as the form. We talked about the possibility of empty http_referers — not all browsers send a referrer and proxy servers […]

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Political

Vote as if your life is dependent on it

In some ways, I don’t think there’s ever been a US election in this country that has more far reaching implications than the one next week. If the Republicans gain control of the Senate next week, and maintain control of the House, they’ll have full control of the Senate, the House, and the Executive Branch […]