(I’m in the process of migrating from WordPress back to MovableType — and catching up from being out of town for nearly two weeks last month. Content’s imported, but cross-linking is so McBroken, it’s not even funny.) Mitch found this interesting post from Business Pundit regarding The Pew Internet and American Life Project:
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Yet another WordPress security problem, and this one’s a doozy. I’m happy that they’re keeping people informed, but dang, this software takes waaaay too much of my time to maintain. What Ben said.
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Yesterday afternoon, both John and Steve reported the perma-links on my blog were serving up blank content. Steve, in his enthusiastic thoroughness, had tested this on several browsers. This pointed to something on the server-side, which was theoretically plausible since I had been doing work earlier, albeit on a completely different domain. After an hour
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Because I’ve been blessed with good vision, visiting the eye doctor hasn’t been a high priority. However, lately I’ve become more aware that the zone of focus for close objects is now approaching the limits of my arm length. Since I had a little money leftover from the pre-tax medical savings account, and my calendar
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I went almost four months without a flat tire. Then, on Friday, I had three after running over some kind of extra-terrestial poly-thorned bramble. The tire may be is unsalvagable. (Danger: Excessive data recording below the fold)
I’m conducting an experiment to answer two questions that have plagued mankind since 2005: 1) “what would happen if I switched my blog software from MovableType to WordPress?” and 2) “while we’re doing that, how about changing all of my music from an uniquely-organized hierarchy of mood-based directories and files to iTunes?” The transition to
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Mr. Frog is upset withthe party-crashers Today was a private function for patrons of the Bellevue Botanical Garden. The first clue was the abundant parking and lack of throngs of people queuing up for the hot caffeine injection. The second clue was the lights being shut down… at 7p.m. On the way out, I saw
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Today I had my first distributed, coordinated comment spam attack. This one was interesting because within a five minute time span, twenty comments were posted to three separate entries. The comments used a similarly formated message but linked to different, legitimate web sites. They were also from completely different IP addresses (list below the fold).
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