Monkinetic Weblog

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.

from[#wordpress](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/wordpress)](irc://irc.freenode.net/wordpress)

[10:03am] redmonk: i'm not here to start a language war
[10:03am] redmonk: we're doing all our cororate stuff in php
[10:03am] photomatt: Too late, I already launched the missles
...
[10:03am] shade_: grab a code helmet.. incase it happens?
[10:03am] photomatt: Damn red button
...
[10:03am] shade_: oh god
[10:03am] shade_: take cover!
[10:04am] redmonk: runs, as the klaxons sound
[10:04am] shade_: screams like a girl
[10:04am] photomatt: * Halfway there, the PHP missles
run out of memory
[10:04am] redmonk: falls over laughing
[10:04am] shade_: getting back his manhood

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.

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.

Doug Bowman, designer and css guru, published yet another article dedicated to getting those of us who have not gone the "standards-compliant" route on our sites to make the leap.

In 2002-2003, Jodi and I got seriously hooked on an intelligently-written and smartly-directed crime drama on NBC called Boomtown. Somehow, aliens managed to abduct the people at NBC smart enough to air this amazing bit of cinema, b/c the show was unceremoniously bludgeoned to death after 1 season and 4 episodes.

Someone on[#wordpress](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/wordpress)](irc://irc.freenode.net/wordpress) pointed to this WordPress-powered blog from MIT's MediaLab Europe: Human Connectedness Group Blog

Joi Ito links to a post by Seth Godin who mentions the idea of "greatest hits", or weblog posts that you (as the blogger) think people should read first when coming to your site.

If you have a Powerbook G4 and your sound starts horking out, run the Apple Hardware Test (boot from the included disk, hold down Option and select "Apple Hardware Test"). It's possible that you'll get a logic board error 2ISS/1/5: 0x40. If so, call AppleCare (you did get AppleCare, right?) and they'll hook you up.

Bump: Apple announces plans to create iTunes for Motorola cell phones. As Robert says I didn't expect that. Indeed. Not sure how good an idea this is, guess we'll see.

Sun Microsystem's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has a blog. Now, I don't care a heck of a lot about what's going on at Sun, but I am enjoying hearing about life from Jonathan's POV. Largely he's using the blog to address issues that are facing Sun these days, like how they are going to monetize Java, or how to compete with "Free" software.

Jodi and I managed to pick up a few more movies of interest today at Costco, listed herewith:

Oooooh, Rands has a great justification for getting that 30" monstrosity from Apple. N.A.D.D.!

I found out a cool feature of PHP today. I'm sure that every other PHP hacker on the planet already knows this, but I didn't ;-).

On this day last year it was confirmed that I'm an idealist, a fact to which anyone who knows me would attest.

Ok, so I've been doing some thinking about this whole other Steve Ivy thing. While 0wnz0ring the top spot on Google may be fun for bloggers who enjoy messing with PageRank, it's not really fair for someone like Steve Ivy, lead coin expert at Heritage Gelleries.

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