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Photomatt @ CNET

10/28/2004 – 9:53 am

WordPress Ãœbermensch Matt Mullenweg has accepted a job at CNET Networks. Getting a job with a big-time tech media company would be cool enough on its own. But part of Matt’s paid duties will be to continue working on WordPress. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in JobHunt, WordPress, Work | Also tagged Web, WordPress | Comments (1)

Tips for Travelling in the South

8/19/2004 – 12:58 pm

This is one of the funniest (and truest) things I’ve seen in a while: Tips for Travelling in the South (via monokinetic).

13) Donâ€™t ridicule our Southern manners. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Fun, The South | Comments (8)

Greetings, spammers!

7/5/2004 – 10:38 am

Early this morning, a spammer flooded this site with around 20+ comment spams. Thanks to MooKitty’s Spam Words Plugin, I was able to delete them all quickly, and ensure that the spammer will not be able to attempt spamming me again with any of the porn links he used in this morning’s attack.

The spammer’s attack was interesting. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, WordPress | Also tagged Google, plugin, Spam, this-site, WordPress | Comments (1)

Mark Pilgrim Switches

5/15/2004 – 10:54 am

In additon to the mention on Slashdot, there was another big event for WordPress yesterday: Mark Pilgrim switched. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, WordPress | Also tagged Web, WordPress | Comments (3)

Pingomatic!

4/19/2004 – 5:08 pm

Announcing… Ping-o-matic!

Now, my Blog Service Pinger has its own domain name. Together with Matt Mullenweg, I’ll be adding new features to the pinger over time. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Tech | Also tagged pingomatic, Programming, Web | Comments (10)

94% Dixie

2/24/2004 – 2:11 pm

I just took the Yankee or Dixie quiz. It correctly deduced that I am 94% Dixie.

By Dougal | Posted in Fun, The South | Comments (5)

Drippy Haybath!

1/30/2004 – 12:00 am

“You say it’s your birthday? It’s my birthday, too!”

Happy Birthday to me! When I was two years old, I sat in front of the television as man took his first steps on the moon. I’ll leave the math to you.

When I was in college, our friend Martin took a “Happy Birthday” banner made of colorful cardboard letters, and rearranged it to read “Drippy Haybath”. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Also tagged WordPress | Comments (8)

Joe Job

12/5/2003 – 1:51 pm

Some spammer out there is doing a joe job on my domain, and I’ve been getting a steady trickle of email bounces from servers at AOL and Yahoo. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Personal | Also tagged Spam, yahoo | Comments (1)

Friggin Fraudsters

11/20/2003 – 10:10 am

I have gotten several spams recently, both in my personal email and at my work address, from someone trying to scam PayPal accounts. The text of the message looks like this: