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Comment on Spam Karma + Akismet Plugin by Leather Tools

Leather Tools — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:39:34 +0000

I love Akismet. I’ve only been using it for a month or so but I am very impressed.

Comment on Faculty Technology Days 2008 by Venkat

Venkat — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:14:22 +0000

The technology is getting better and better! Look at my view!

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Comment on WordPress Boolean Category Display? by Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:03:58 +0000

I came to this page after googling for a solution to this very issue….Chris’s suggestion “query_posts(’cat=3,4&showposts=5′)”…which I’ve been trying… is a “boolean OR” rather than a “boolean AND”….I have to try the intersection plugin.

Comment on Spore Creature Creator by dnorman

dnorman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:59:29 +0000

@Fergus it took maybe half an hour, only because I was playing around

@Bryan I’m not sure the IP is a big issue - it’s not like you can use the creatures outside the game. They likely need to clarify that they have permission to transmit the creatures as part of the service - that’s where most of the services-owning-content stuff comes from. They need to be able to store, reproduce, duplicate, and distribute the creatures as part of the service. I’d err on the side of EA-being-non-evil.

Comment on 366photos halfway mark by Fergus Mayhew

Fergus Mayhew — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:49:19 +0000

That’s just beautiful … it’d be cool to see it blown up as a poster or something similar.

It’s bit “bright” though … seems like everyone’s taking bright happy pictures. Maybe you could recruit some more miserable participants (or some goth teenagers perhaps) so you could fill in the dark areas more completely!

Comment on On autism and vaccinations by Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:29:01 +0000

Scientifically, “cause” is an absolute term. Cause = Always. Where there is no cause, there is predisposition, and influence. If vaccines “caused” autism, then all recipients of vaccines would be autistic and this isn’t so. As such, it is likely that vaccines have the potential to trigger autism in individuals with certain genetic predispositions such as poor heavy metal metabolism.

But who really knows what is going on, and what people namely scientist know about this stuff. The fact is it is getting worse, which is to bad for us and our children.

Great post by the way !

Jenny

Comment on A Month and a Half in Banff (via timelapse) by Chamonix

Chamonix — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:08:32 +0000

That is bloody amazing! Love it. Do you think you could go and do that in Chamonix please

Comment on Dvorak Keyboard Layout by Patty

Patty — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:21:03 +0000

If you ever get cts again, please don’t wear braces. I suffered severely from cts for about two years and it only makes it worse in the long run. What helped me was 100 mg of vit b6 every day and flextend. Oh yeah, and breaking my leg and being forced to walk with crutches, but I don’t recommend that.

Comment on Spore Creature Creator by Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:35:03 +0000

Yes, but. EA seems to claim IP for creatures created.

Comment on CompuSmart Sucks! by rcull

rcull — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:52:06 +0000

re: tigerdirect.ca

If you go to the US site, the products are 20 - 25% cheaper. They will not sell to Canadians through their US site. If they detect you are Canadian, they force you to the Canadian site where they rip you the extra money. I think they suck. They should offer the same deals whereever, not just to US citizens and rip of Canadians.

I WON’T EVER DEAL WITH CROOKS LIKE THEM!!!