Archive for November, 2006

The cold snap meant I accumulated faves of tropical places even faster over the last couple of weeks. Some other cool photos in there, too. But mostly tropical stuff. »

Registration for Northern Voice 2007 just opened up. The speaker list and schedule hasn't been announced yet, but if it's anything like the first two NV events, it's going to be absofrigging great. I'm not sure how I'm getting there yet, but I'll be there. I may have bandages on my back where my... »

I was just messing around with smart albums in iPhoto, and found that I can create albums based on camera model. So, I created a set of smart albums showing all photos taken with each of the 3 digital cameras I've owned. I then created additional smart albums to show just photos taken with... »

Spam is the scourge of the internets. It clogs Internet Tubes all over the globe, overloading the trucks that take internets around the world. And it is directly caused by Google's PageRank and Adsense systems. They (as well as others, but primarily Google - take a look at any spam farm, and you'll see prominent... »

I just checked in on weblogs.ucalgary.ca, and was greeted by a wonderful surprise. Justin Trudeau was on campus on Friday November 24, and the full audio of his talk was posted to weblogs.ucalgary.ca as a podcast. I've grabbed the file, and have listened to the first couple of minutes, but this should be a... »

After switching from BadBehavior+Spam.module back to Akismet, I assumed I'd be in for a bit of an onslaught of spam. I was braced for impact. I can't believe the sheer volume of sustained attempted spam comments that are constantly being flung against this blog, 24/7 now. It's peaked at several attempts per second, which... »

OK. Even I am getting sick of the incessant "spam blocking update" posts, but I figure if it helps even one other person put the brakes on the attempts of the evil spamroaches, it's worth it.So, here's the latest. I got frustrated with the number of spamments that snuck through the combo of Bad... »

I had been running an out of date version of Bad Behavior on my blog because the Drupal module requires BB 1.2.4 - but I think the evil spambots were getting around that old version. So, I just took a stab at updating my copy of bad-behavior.module to work with the latest and greatest Bad... »

I'm seriously considering moving my blog to Drupal 5 Beta 1. It seems stable enough, and the performance (especially with Aggressive Caching) blows Drupal 4.7.4 out of the water. That's becoming a pretty serious factor for me, as the insane onslaught of comment spam just keeps bringing my server to its knees (I'm looking... »

I was just checking in, and on my Sitemeter stats page, saw an interesting recent visitor:Visit from the Bat Cave I didn't realize Batman had moved the Cave so far from Gotham City. But, in another score for Drupal, the Dark Knight is researching how to move from Wordpress to Drupal. »