Do you have a Wordpress blog? Are you using the free Akismet plugin? Why not?
This baby stops comment spam in its filthy tracks, my friends. You need to get a (free) Wordpress API (they tell you how to do it, it’s easy), then you install the plugin…done. It works so well [...]
Archives for February 2010
I Sing the Praises of Akismet
Spinny’s Take on the Facebook “Link Love” Program
Okay, so anyone and everyone who is trying to run a business is wondering how the whole “social media” thing might help out–or should be IMNSDHO. There is, however, a big potential down side to using such media for getting exposure for your business as I see it: how do you avoid crossing [...]
Saying Good-bye to Jerry
This past Wednesday was our literal Funeral for a Friend, as we bid our final farewells. The funeral itself was, in my opinion, the best possible sort: brief and focused. I’m not a fan of ceremony for ceremony’s sake. A few of us spoke of Jerry, how we’ll remember him and what [...]
I Don’t Understand Grocery Stores
My mission today: pick up some lemonade–not just any lemonade, I was armed with a pair of specific brands from which to choose.
My arrival at the hub of all things that are wrong in the commercial world was uneventful: I scored a decent parking space, no one tried to run me over as I [...]
Internet Explorer Must Die
If you’ve done any web development more ambitious than a few text links, you have already long since run up against the problem of how Microsoft constantly fails to conform to standards. For those of you who haven’t experienced the special joy of making otherwise correctly-coded web designs work in IE, you don’t know [...]
Cancer Sucks
No shit, right? Who doesn’t know someone it’s taken?
It took a friend today, and the hurt’s still raw, and there’s nothing really to do about it but get over it. Eventually.
Jerry was a great guy. The harder you broke his balls the better he liked you for it, and he had a [...]
Jumping on the “Avatar” Bandwagon with Both Feet
So, from what I hear there’s an explosion of videos on YouTube detailing how to paint yourself blue, and to otherwise try to look like a Na’vi character. I figured that’s lame: on one hand, you ever tried washing all that shit off when you’re done? Don’t even tell me you plan to [...]
Beware of Theft via “ATM Traps”
I just heard about this today (and checked it out at Snopes), and it’s pretty bizarre. There’s a way to set an “ATM Trap” such that it captures your card, and then the thief does a bit of social engineering to get your PIN, only to recover the card a short time later and [...]
On Finding Gifts for Geeks
So, Xmas is past but if you had any hard core geeks on your gift list last year I’m betting it was a royal chore finding something “suitable” for them. Tell me, honestly: where do you think that gizmo is now?
My friends, I’m here to make your next foray into geek giftdom an experience [...]
Check out the latest at Blaine’s golf blog
He helps expose the dark underbelly of what really goes on at some “club testing” events. Tell him Spinny sent you.
The Golf Digest Hot List is a Joke (And We’re Not Laughing) at Addicted2Golf
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