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Comment Spam

Dave — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:18:43 +0000

I’m trying out a new plugin for wordpress to help with comment spam. If anyone has problems commenting please send an email to dave AT droyer DOT org.

Thanks…

PS: The plugin I’m trying out is WordPress HashCash.

What Is RSS

Dave — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:44:55 +0000

I’m addicted to my news reader. I’d be lost without it. If you haven’t yet discovered the wonder that is a news reader and RSS sindication, the US Army War College has a greate primer titled “What is RSS?“.

Excerpt:

What if you were given a tool that would monitor the flow of new information on your favorite web sites and let you know what is new on each site? Sound too good to be true? Not if you use RSS!

MovableType 3

Dave — Thu, 13 May 2004 15:10:42 +0000

There seems to be quite a chorus out there of people not too happy about the “licensing changes for Movable Type 3″:http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archives/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml. “Technorati has a good list of discussions about the new licensing changes.”:http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sixapart.com%2Fcorner%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2Fits_about_time.shtml

Personally, I would have no problem shelling out $70 for a non-comercial license as long as it did not restrict the number of authors/blogs, like the 2.x versions did. I use MovableType for my personal blog and I host blogs for a few friends too.

If I was going to do a straight upgrade (no future expansion) I’d be looking to shell out $150 for the same number of users/blogs that I have now.

Several people (”The Loony Bin, for one”:http://www.lunenburg.org/wade/archives/000541.php) have also noted that there is a limit not just on the number of users, but on the number of CPU’s the computer has (limit of one). Well, the computer running this site just happens to have 2 CPU’s so I don’t know what license I would need…even if I were ready to grab one. (Update: The single CPU clause can be found in the click-through license you have to agree to before you can download the free version. See “here”:https://secure.sixapart.com/t/store?__mode=confirm).

Update: One thought…I have no problem with “Six Apart” wanting to make money. As I said above, without the user/blog limits I would probably have already gone and purchased a copy. I guess I could also install separate copies of the free version for the friend’s I host for. That’s a lot of extra maintenance and work, but it could be done.

I use MT for links and a blogroll and a couple other pieces that aren’t meant for public consumption. One of the nice pieces of MovableType was that you could create additional blogs as you see fit to cover additional pieces of functionality for your site.

It just seems that this is a step backward in the licensing. By moving to MT3 you are losing functionality that was in 2.x unless you have a very large bucket of money.

An Illustrated Guide to MT Templates

Dave — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:18:09 +0000

“mediatinker.com”:http://www.mediatinker.com has a great artcle describing the “details behind MovableType templates”:http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/007806.html.

Create a Photolog using MovableType

Dave — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 15:37:16 +0000

Here’s something for you “Jane”:http://www.droyer.org/~jane/blog/.

Here’s a real good description of “creating how to create a photolog using MovableType”:http://www.moonpost.com/jeremy/photolog5steps.html.

BayesianFiltering for MovableType

Dave — Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:25:26 +0000

I don’t get too mayn comments in my blog. I’m not doing this to entertain people…mostly just for my own amusement! Anyway, I can’t stand SPAM. lately I’ve been seeing more and more spam comments so I decided to implement James Seng’s “Bayesian filter for MT”:http://james.seng.cc/archives/000152.html. This Rocks! “I’m already a big fan of Bayesian filters for email”:http://www.droyer.org/~dave/archives/000309.php and this sounds like a good application for it as well.

Button Maker

Dave — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 07:28:18 +0000

I found the small buttons on the right at several different websites. I was just poking around at “Mandarin Design”:http://www.mandarindesign.com/blogger.html and I found this great link. It’s an “automatic button maker”:http://kalsey.com/tools/buttonmaker/!

Google’s PageRank is dead

Dave — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:31:32 +0000

Jeremy Zawodny has an interesting article about how “the prevalence of Blogs has affected google’s PageRank so profoundly”:http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html. It will be interesting to see if google really is trying to ’solve’ this ‘problem’, as talked about in the article.

Moving from Live Journal to Movable Type

Dave — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:31:56 +0000

“Scriptygoddess”:http://www.scriptygoddess.com has an article about how to “move all your Live Journal content to Movable Type”:http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/004229.php.

Blog: Baghdad Burning

Dave — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:01:11 +0000

Here’s an interesting blog I ran across. “Bagdad Burning”:http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ is a blog by a female Iraqi. She has a very good command of the english language. Interesting reading.

(Link from “BoingBoing”:http://www.boingboing.net)