Jodi: I get to speak these long coveted words:

|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.

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

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.

|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.

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

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.

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

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...