The WP Monster ID Plugin automatically generates a unique “monster” for each commenter on your blog, based either on their email address or IP address. This means it’s persistent: it’s the same for every comment they post, on any blog they post on. Cute!
If you have a popular vBulletin forum, you’ll find this thread on stopping sendmessage.php spam useful. I’d looked for it before, but somehow I missed the exact setting.
It’s mildly distressing that I read the Bible much more closely when I’m doing it for a class than when I’m reading it for myself. Maybe I’m seeing new insights because I’m reading a different translation, so the same worn-out stories don’t look the same anymore. But I’m really being struck by what I’m reading…Continue Reading…
OK, I’ve figured it out. I looked through a lot of trash and ended up with two really simple programs: Juice for downloading podcasts to your computer, and Shuffler for transferring from computer to MP3 player, assuming your MP3 player works like mine does (that is, it creates a drive letter, which is pretty typical)….Continue Reading…
You’d think that with all the talk about the podcasting (or netcasting) revolution, someone would’ve made it easy by now– and with any MP3 player. Well, it’s not true. You can do it with an iPod and iTunes easily enough, but for other MP3 players, the market is extremely fragmented. I started off looking for…Continue Reading…
Looks like a Get Smart film is scheduled to start shooting in March 2007 to be released in 2008. I hope it’s really awesome. I loved the TV series, but most of the people I talk with haven’t ever heard of it. It was a really funny series, and this looks like it could be…Continue Reading…