Monkinetic Weblog

Jodi: I get to speak these long coveted words:

Some our our good friends and family have asked how they can help out in our adoption adventure. As a service to them I've created a How To Help page and linked to it from the adorable adoption graphic in the right sidebar of this page. Ok, now everyone go look at the cute graphic...

So, Jodi and I got our first couple of packets of paperwork last night, and started filling out forms and such. This is a process that is going to involve wading through magnificent stacks of paperwork, but the reward will be worth it!

|Bill Brown|: Die Spammers! >If you are a comment spammer (or his bot representative), I wish only the most unspeakable evil on you. You are a blight on the Internet and whatever function you serve is disgusting, ignoble, and repugnant.

There's a Better Image Rotator over at A List Apart. Better, that is, than this one I posted about earlier.

This coming Sunday, Jodi and I will celebrate our 6th anniversary. It's been 6 awesome years with a woman I loved and appreciated, and have grown to respect and cherish. For most of those 6 years, Jodi and I have been trying to conceive, or TTC as it's called in the circles we find ourselves in.

Just found a nifty image rotator in this A List Apart article: Random Image Rotation.

Steven from Panic complains about how complicated it got to redesign his MovableType weblog. Several of us chimed in to promote |WordPress| -- no wonder the community is growing so quickly. :-D

I've been getting a lot of "referers" lately from an unnamed website, so I went in search of ways to block, or at least annoy, them. I found this article from Ed Costello on Blocking Referer Spam. I've implemented a variation on one of his techniques, targetted at this particular spammer. Now to see if it helps.

Sometime the hardest decisions.... aren't.

An IT guy at Jodi's company just told her that Mac networks were "insecurable". (pause for riotous laughter.) It's like she IM'd me:

Inspired by |Dunstan Orchard|'s entry on how he's presenting times in his blog posts, I've added a similar feature to monkinetic, helped along by the lovely |WordPress| plugin that phu developed.

|Dave Shea| gave his CSS Crib Sheet a permanent home. It's a great resource for things to keep in mind when building standards-compliant websites.

Steve wrote to point out that the main function in Link Linker rm_link, was conflicting with the wp-amazon plugin. I've fixed the problem and uploaded a new version.

I love having a wife who works for a construction company. Every so often |Jodi| will call me and say "hey we've got <cool construction materials> here for free if you want them". So the other day she calls and they've got some cabinetry they're getting rid of. I went over and got a cabinet with a couple drawers and doors in it, and two shelves. After acquiring a 4x8 sheet of CDX plywood, and the judicous application of Liquid Nails and threaded fasteners, I managed to construct a very servicable workbench, replacing the lower half of an old credenza I'd been using.

Link Linker is a plugin for |WordPress| 1.2.

I'm testing a new plugin I'm working on, please be patient.

|photomatt|, lead developer of |WordPress|, posted a kick-ass blog entry about how WordPress handles comment spam, his approach to it, and some of the directions WordPress is going in in that area. A good read to see the state-of-the-art on fighting The Evil that is spam.