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dnorman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:23:02 +0000

I just nuked 223 comments that had been pushed into Akismet purgatory. Damn you, spamass roaches. My blog is not a dumping ground for your link garbage. Even the ones that were obviously manually written by a genuine Human Being - if you use a product name as your own, you’re a spammer. I have a zero tolerance policy. If it even remotely smells of spam, it gets nuked.

dnorman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:59:29 +0000

twitter’s down for maintenance, and the collective productivity of the edublogosphere shoots through the stratosphere for an hour…

dnorman — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:31:35 +0000

I’m finding myself pleasantly surprised by how much I love my photographs lately. Not in a self-congratulatory narcissistic way, but in a “holy fracking shyte! I can’t believe that I took that shot!” I’m definitely having fun with photography, and need to find more time to play

back from camp

dnorman — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:08:52 +0000

It rained almost nonstop the entire time we were at camp. The kids all had fun, though, and that’s all that matters…

offline

dnorman — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:33:40 +0000

dropping offline now, likely until Sunday evening. Heading out to the year-end camping trip with the Beavers, in an area forecast for solid rain the whole time… hoping the evil spammers don’t infest my blogs while I’m gone…

dnorman — Sat, 03 May 2008 15:00:34 +0000

had to disable “allow notifications from other blogs (trackbacks and pingbacks)” because of the sheer volume of trackback spam that was getting through Akismet. Thanks for escalating the arms race, frackers.

dnorman — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:42:06 +0000

New books purchased today: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (to read with Evan), John Szarkowski’s The Photographer’s Eye, and Frank Warren’s compilation Post Secret. Looking forward to reading every page of each book.

dnorman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:59 +0000

still struggling to find a way to properly represent a complex hierarchical taxonomy along with paired year data in Drupal, to do something like allowing a contributor to specify that someone received a UBC: Bachelor’s Degree: Bachelor’s of Science: Zoology in 1998 - in such a way that I could use the UBC, Bachelor’s, BSc, and Zoology levels of the hierarchy, as well as the year. It’s not just a simple Taxonomy vocabulary because the year pairing throws it off… It’s not just a simple CCK field, because it needs to be more flexible…

dnorman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:09:52 +0000

AsideShop should be able to provide some almost-Drupal functionality in WordPress. Without the content types stored in the database, and just at the presentation layer, but still this could be very cool for building websites where you want to display different bits of content in different ways. Could have different templates for podcasts, videos, presentations, blog entries, etc… Interesting…

dnorman — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:51 +0000

but, can asides be posted without having to enter anything the Title field? asides aren’t big enough to need titles… Update: YES! No title necessary! It’ll use the post ID in the slug, and looks like it works just fine. Rock.