Rumors about a “headless iMac” have been out for a while, but now the Mac Mini is official. This new platform comes with a G4 processor at either 1.25GHz or 1.42GHz, either 40GB or 80GB of drive space, 1 FireWire, 2 USB, DVI/VGA video, modem, 10/100Base-T ethernet, can have anywhere from 256MG to 1GB of RAM, optional 802.11b/g and Bluetooth, and OS X 10.3 with the usual slew of cool Apple apps. Starting price is … Continue reading
I’ve seen several people recently who have noticed changes in their Google PageRank. I’ve just now noticed that I seem to be one of them. I used to be at PR6, but now I’m at PR7. What does this mean in the grand scheme of things? Not much. Probably just that I’ll be targetted by even more comment spammers. But hey, PR7. Cool 🙂
Yesterday, while doing some experiments in WordPress, I apparently borked the rewrite rules for this site in a fashion that broke permalinks. It’s fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience, please resume your usual surfing.
The folks over at Ars Technica chose WordPress as their Web Application of the Year for 2004. Obviously, their staff are an intelligent lot, with good taste. And probably good looking, to boot. [via: Photomatt]
Thunderbird OPML Import/Export Aha! I was digging around some more, and thought I’d see if there was any kind of official movement on OPML import for Thunderbird. So I wandered over to the Mozilla bug tracker, and did a search for “OPML” in the “Thunderbird” project. That turned up a single hit, which was Bug #258102. Towards the bottom, were some patches from Justin. At first, I wasn’t sure how to apply them. His patch … Continue reading
Related to my previous post, there is a WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin over on IO Error. (via Photomatt). The initial version is pretty simple, connecting to the spamd server and getting a simple true/false spam verdict on a comment. But the author says that he wants to improve it to use the SA scoring system to send “maybe spam” messages to moderation.
Interesting discussion about comment spam over at Harry Fuecks’ Dynamically Typed. I’ve also been watching some discussions about a possible SpamAssassin spinoff specifically for blog comment spam. I’m hoping things will heat up more after the holidays, when everybody gets back into work mode.
There’s probably nothing I can say about the recent Indian Ocean Earthquake that hasn’t already been said by others. We first learned about it on Monday morning, nearly 36 hours after-the-fact. The devastation in the affected areas is horrifying, and our prayers go out to everyone affected. I know I’m late in mentioning this, but I just felt like it wouldn’t be right to post anything else here without first acknowledging such a widely felt … Continue reading
As suggested by a thread in the WordPress Support forums, I want to share some Thank Yous… This list is not comprehensive, I’m sure to leave out plenty of people who deserve to be included. So if you aren’t mentioned, please don’t feel slighted — it’s just my lousy memory at fault. That said, I’d just like to list some people (in no particular order) who have contributed to my enjoyment of blogging. It might … Continue reading
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