Technology is changing how people interact with government forever, says a prominent homeland security consultant.
Most of you, my loyal readers, don't actually realize I have, at last count, four blogs where I cover various topics. If you're looking for something new and interesting to read, check these out:
After much yelling, screaming, gnashing of teeth, and maybe a bit of bribery, I finally managed to get myself an account on wordpress.com.This means, among other things, I can finally keep all my WordPress-related ramblings separate from my main blog here, as well as provide a solution for people wanting to subscribe solely to Bad Behavior announcements.
Are you a Google AdSense publisher? Do you worry about accidentally clicking on your own ads and being thrown out of the program? I have a solution for you.
Forbes magazine has named WordPress Best of the Web in its Blog Tools category, saying that version 1.5 puts it squarely ahead of Movable Type.
Anyone with a blog has noticed that trackback spam is on the rise. The usual PPC spammers have figured out how to send trackbacks and bypass many blogs' spam filters. But there's a new kind of trackback spam out there.
Unlike other proposals for encrypting syndicated feeds, this article on encrypting RSS using Bloglines, Greasemonkey and Blowfish actually works today. It allows you to freely intermix encrypted and non-encrypted content in the same feed or the same item within the feed.
Howie at The Jawa Report goes off on some blog commenters who got a little out of hand the other day. I noted that the thread was accumulating comments left and right. We were picking up new readers. All our statements and comments were being read not only by regulars here but also potential new readers [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has added a section on labor law to its Legal Guide for Bloggers.
It appears that Technorati is somehow confusing the tags of my posts, and in many cases the tags for one post get associated with the previous post.
For quite a while now I have been interested in VoIP and the effect it is having and will continue to have on telecommunications and society at large. But I have a little problem keeping up with VoIP news: I have so many newsfeeds in my feed reader now that I can barely keep up [...]
This is a quick hack that lets the WordPress built-in search facility search posts and pages. By default, WordPress searches only posts. It was created against WordPress 1.5.1.2, but should work with previous versions if applied in the right place. Download the patch here. If you can’t patch for some reason, you can apply the changes [...]
Now that nofollow is everywhere, it's time to take a good hard look at it. Google's nofollow initiative has not resulted in a reduction of link spam, but instead has had much more insidious effects on the Internet.
I was just about to go to bed, when this person logged in to IRC and started asking… No, that’s not right. Started whining… Ostensibly, he wanted to enter into some sort of business arrangement with WordPress, to send him sales leads. But we found out he had no product and a serious need for therapy. A [...]
If you're a regular visitor you've probably noticed the nice login form in the sidebar, which if you happen to login, will show your user name and user controls. It should work with most themes with little or no tweaking. Enjoy!
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been spending much time away from news sources, computers, and the usual suspects, and actually trying to get out of the house once in a while and see actual human beings in person. So I haven’t written too much. While I was out, some comment spammers decided to try [...]
As an occasional reader of Slashdot I recently noticed some links on their pages in red-on-black and blinking. This is a little bit I threw in my Firefox userChrome.css to expose any hyperlink which has been tagged with rel=”nofollow”. If you somehow haven’t heard of nofollow, this is how it works: You add it in to [...]
Not long ago, the WordPress team released version 1.5 of their semantic personal publishing platform (that's a fancy name for blog). I have been a fan of WordPress since the first time I laid eyes on it, and have occasionally contributed a patch here, a plugin there, and today, I'm contributing criticism and code. Originally I was going to write here about some of the last minute changes that went into the 1.5 release, exactly how they were broken, and why it's a bad thing to introduce new features less than 24 hours before you ship a product. But that's whining, and I figured it would be better to actually do something about it.
The latest release of the WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin includes the #1 most requested feature (and in fact, so far the only requested feature). Is it actually working?
I'm pleased to announce version 0.3 of the WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin. Based on reports that it actually works, I've changed its status from "pre-alpha" to "alpha." In addition, the following improvements are in this new version:
I hate spam. I really hate spam. And I hate comment spam on my site. A few of you noticed about 764 of them yesterday morning when you visited here. I thought I was fairly well protected against comment spam, but the spammers are getting smarter. So I decided to raise the stakes a bit. Introducing the WordPress SpamAssassin plugin.
Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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