I always had this blog to write, not to run a blog. I’ve written less and less over the last couple of years and part of this is down to the overhead of maintaining wordpress. My plan is to switch to a clean, hosted solution – and Tumblr is looking like what I want. I [...]
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I’ve been neglecting things here at Magpiebrain Towers since my move to San Francisco. Blame the sunshine, a demanding new client, or just a relapse of extreme apathy. Whatever the cause, it seems that my inattention has been rewarded.
Simon sent me an email the other day, wondering where the blog had gone. I brought up [...]
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Yes, it’s another “I upgraded my blog and aint I great” post only this time it’s in the form of thanks to a couple of different parties.
First off, I decided to upgrade the blog to Movable Type 3.2. On a Sunday evening. Right before bed. After a migrane. Without backing up the database. Note to [...]
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Since I lost the use of the subscribe to post plugin (for reasons known only to the Perl gods) I’ve wanted to add some other way for people to stay tuned to changes made to interesting posts – especially to see if replies are made to comments they’ve left. The obvious solution was staring me [...]
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SpamLookup’s DNSBL Configuration
I was about to roll me sleeves up and get busy with mod_security this weekend with a view to further tackling my trackback spam issues, but luckily (for my Apache install if nothing else) Movable Type hacker extraordinaire Brad Choate has released SpamLookup to save me the effort. Where Jay Allen’s well-known MT [...]
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I’ve put an additional anti-spam measure in – comment preview is now forced. I’m having probems with the preview comment template right now (it looks very rough and ready) but I’ll put it right soon.
Once again comments seemed to be missfiring, which I only found out thanks to a helpful soul out there (thanks Shane!). [...]
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A quick post those people reading this site via JavaBlogs. You might like to know that you’ll no longer be receiving my “del.ico.us(My del.icio.us links)”:http://del.icio.us/padark links spliced in with my feed. If you still want to get them, you’ll need to subscribe to my “FeedBurner feed(magpiebrain – summary posts with del.icio.us links spliced in, RSS [...]
Updated: Fixed some typos and the table formatting
Jumping belatedly onto one of the recent blogging bandwagons (by now looking quite unsafe, with peeling paint and all those credible bloggers long since having abandoned…well, wagon) I thought I’d have a look at the browsers people use to view the site in the wake of the release [...]
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A friend of mine pointed out that under “RSS Bandit”:http://www.rssbandit.org/, links to my posts are broken. I took a look, and it seems as though it is using the @@ element from my RSS 2.0 feed as a link, rather than the more usual @@. My @@’s are fairly standard (in an MT sense), and [...]
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I’m not sure how I missed this (although I suspect a recent spring clean of my subscribed feeds is to blame) but I managed to miss the announcement that both “NetNewsWire(NetNewsWire and Bloglines)”:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/bloglines.php and “FeedDemon(FeedDemon 1.5 Beta 1 with Bloglines Integration)”:http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2004/09/ann_feeddemon_1.html are to integrate with “Bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com/. I wasn’t wowed by the original “announcement”:http://www.bloglines.com/about/pr_09282004 of the [...]
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