Blogging

Oops!

January 16, 2005

At the time it seemed like a good idea. A dozen or so hours ago I was working away on the new photo website for Nevada Boys State. It is a work in progress that shares web space on this server. There were a few glitches that made setting up Gallery in a sub-directory of Drupal difficult. I found a way around that and all was good to go. The Boys State photos aren't quite up yet, but everything else looked good. So I headed out to go on a horseback ride.

Oops!

There comes murphy! I didn't check to see that I didn't make a boneheaded mistake and leave my main websites down all day. Of course, having failed to check they were down. Tonight a few tweaks on the Boys State site and then a click to test and the '404 Not Found' error pops up. Head over to the error logs and sure enough nothing has been working all day.

New header graphic

January 3, 2005

In honor of rotoravi8r's blog we have a new header graphic. It is not a Blackhawk but an Air Force Pavehawk. But it is a rotorcraft none the less. This was from a picture I took in May 2004.

On a separate note, birthday wishes are in order for the Mars Rover Spirit. Although planned to live a useful 90 days, after one year the craft is still roaming the martian soil.

Nothing to say?

December 30, 2004

The topic of needing something to say in order to have a blog came up at lunch today. The answer is obviously no, you don't have to have anything to say. For New Year's treat yourself to getting started and just write about anything or nothing at all. In time it will come together, probably in a way you cannot now imagine.

Podcasting Pleas

December 29, 2004

I've taken a couple of weeks off from listening to podcasts and listened instead to a few great books. Now that I'm getting back to catching up on podcasts I have some pleas for those who are trying to make this a going concern.

  1. Don't bash the iPod - there are plenty of links and time devoted in podcasts to how terrible the iPod interface is. One of the most common complaints it the inability to fast forward and rewind. This is not an iPod problem, it is a user problem. Every day I happily fast forward and rewind through selections. It is not complicated you simply hold a button down, no need to even look at the iPod itself.

    As an aside it is interesting that the same people who complain about not getting credit will post links saying "What's wrong with iPods," instead of "The iPod is by far the best mp3 player out there. Here are some additional features I'd like."

Comment Spam Blocking with Wordpress

December 14, 2004

For the WordPress users out there there is a write up on doing spam post blocking.

I'm on the fence about Bayesian filters and content spam. The online casino folks who are spamming away the last few days use text that is not necessarily what I want to teach my filter to sort out. It would be a bit better if it matched content with the post to see if text from the Gettysburg address is appropriate to the context. The filtering of URL's and words in content spam prevention seems to be more useful so far.

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