Category: General

Bot Check for WordPress

Bot Check is a great WordPress plugin that I just installed on my site. It adds a little dynamically generated image of a numeric code that the user must type in for their comment to be accepted. It took me all of 10 minutes to...

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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5

I made the switch from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Pretty easy and I noticed that some annoying bugs in 1.2 were fixed, so I don't have to waste time looking for patches. Perhaps most notably, I can post trackbacks to other...

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Search Panel

Here's an interesting little search sidebar that uses the Yahoo Web APIs. I found about it from this press release. Search Panel, the popular browser companion which lets users search as they surf, now supports Yahoo! search....

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Fixed my blog layout for IE

I noticed while posting to my blog that the layout was totally and completely broken on IE (but fine on Firefox). After some trial and error, I tracked it down to my x2vnc post, which had some wide content inside <pre>...

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Bought a TiVo for my parents

My parents' birthday (yes, that's right - parents' - they both have the same birthday) is this week and I wanted to get them something different this year. I went ahead and bought them a TiVo along with a 6 month gift...

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eCleaner

eCleaner is a freeware program that is used for cleaning up long email exchanges with lots of '>' characters in them. Here's a review from About.com. Since the author of eCleaner isn't really maintaining it anymore and his...

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