Archive for May, 2007
Comments have returned
Apparently I really have won the war. After only 48 hours of having comments turned off, I got the following message in my inbox:
Hello
About thishttp://www.communityguy.com/index.cfm/id/Lost_the_battle_won_t_lose_th
We are remove your domain from our spambase. You can switch commentson. Our guys will not spam you anymore.
Sorry for inconvenience
Sincerely yours, [removed Russian name]
I have to say that I’m impressed. [...]
links for 2007-05-17
PvPonline.com - Comic for May 16
I love the PVP web comic - artist Scott Kurtz is a great guy with mad comic skillz. Yesterday’s strip was one of the best in a while. What happens when you break up with World of Warcraft? Scott fills us in.
(tags: comics gaming)
links for 2007-05-14
Microsoft claims software like Linux violates its patents - May 28, 2007
“We live in a world where we honor, and support the honoring of, intellectual property”… said the CEO of one of the most aggressive businesses in modern history.
(tags: microsoft opensource)
Fodors.com > Focus on Photography
It’s that time again, summer is nearly here and vacations are [...]
links for 2007-05-13
Big in Japan: Asterisk+Ruby=
It’s funny days around our offices…sadly we were laughing to hard to ask if Mike was OK. We’re such bastards.
(tags: humor)
Lost the battle, won’t lose the war
OK, fine. I’m throwing in the towel, at least temporarily. The manual spammers have won this battle, hopefully they won’t win the war too.
In the last week, I’ve gotten about 100 manual comment spam posts. These are blog comments that are posted by a real person, probably overseas working for a tiny amount of money, [...]
links for 2007-05-12
scandalMap - Bush Admin scandals goes interactive
Interesting Flash visualization of the scandals that the Bush Admin has been involved with. It’s even Web 2.0-compliant… it has tags.
(tags: politics flash)
Upcoming Movies
I could (and have) spend hours on the Apple movie trailers site. I love trailers - even bad movies look like they’re movie of the year in 30 seconds.
Here’s a few of the movies I’m looking forward to:
Bourne Ultimatum (with this one, I have a calendar filled with red X marks counting down to [...]
links for 2007-05-11
556 Mini-Griptilian
My Dad bought me a really cool new knife. This thing is razor sharp and REALLY smooth to operate with one hand. Thanks Dad!!
(tags: tools gadgets)
Twitter / deltaairlines
Wow, interesting. Delta Airlines is getting it’s Tweet on. It has a highly personal feel to it. This may actually be a btter solution for companies than [...]
Common Internet Morality?
If you haven’t noticed the rush of comments here on the blog lately, let me apologize on behalf of the spammers. That’s right, despite my image captcha verification I’m still getting comment spam.
How, you ask, can an automated tool figure out the text that’s in the captcha image? They can’t. Instead, these are real [...]
links for 2007-05-06
Little Red Barn on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Perhaps the best photo I’ve seen to date on Flickr. Wow.
(tags: photography flickr)
