I raised the white flag today. I thought I had turned comments off in moveable type (v 2.6x) and deleted all the old spam. But today — just 2.5 days after cleaning up the mess — there were another 556 spam turdlettes on the site. I don’t have time for this. I haven’t gotten the […]
People warned me. But did I listen? NOooooooo. I’ve been away from blogging for a while. When I came back, some 10,000 spam messages stained my comments. I have no time to deal with it except to delete all existing comments and turn comments off. Deleting comments the easy way required logging into mySQL. mysql> […]
This is a rework of a previous speech. I delivered this talk for today’s Early Risers Toastmasters club speech contest. I changed the middle by replacing the work context with a general life context. My evaluator pointed out one area of needed improvement: I should relate the closing to my own life. I agree with […]
This is a must read. Title is ‘The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story’ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html I tried to use CUPS from my Mac. Crikey! I don’t know HOW it happened but I can now print to my laser printer over ethernet. Of course, it has one of those [not supported on OS X] ethernet […]
A pig and a chicken are walking down the road when they come upon a church where a revival is going on. {gesture towards audience} Any of you been to a revival? It’s been a while for me. Let me tell you, a revival is MOVING. Pig and chicken were moved, overcome by the spirit. […]