Monkinetic Weblog

|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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're celebrating Sysadmin Appreciation Day here at Content Connections. :-) The tech team will be ordering pizza and perhaps watching WarGames or Tron. Suggestions for other suitably geeky movies welcome.

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Posted 2004 Jul 31 00:00

I'm working on Jodi's weblog, and want to demo Trackback for her, so this post is tracking back a funny post she made today about her "nice-boss".

Jodi has started blogging again at her newly WordPress-powered weblog. Even I'm wondering what she's talking about...

I've found some links to my content floating around the web of the form www.redmonk.net/discussion/thread.html$msgnum=2353 So I decided to route them to the same script that maps some of my other old Conversant URLs to the new site, and now the discussion-style links work after a fashion - they get 302'd to the correct url - in this case redmonk.net/archives/2003/10/30/winter-lawn-redux.