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Intelligent blog-spam?
Not long ago I received a very on-topic comment on my Weird RVRD issue explained. I started to research it, and even formulate an answer. However, I was somewhat suspicious because of the asymmetry between the username (“web development Dubai”) and the question (which was anything but web development related). So I did a little…
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The fox in the henhouse?
Some time back I ranted about ParetoLogic which was used to be known as the makers of a rogue security product (XoftSpy). Today I can rant once again about them: They’ve published a blogpost insinuating that Firefox 3.5 has a remote code execution vulnerability. I’ve tried to inquire if they notified Mozilla about the issue,…
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Tried to review RocketPost…
A reader of mine asked about my opinions about RocketPost, so I thought I’ll give it a try. Their interface seemed alright and there were some interesting features showcased in the tour. An other thing I’ve liked is that they offer a free version with no restrictions, other than the number of blogs limited to…
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Blogs I’m reading
I decided to add a blogroll to my sidebar, however a complete list would have been waaaay to long. Also, I didn’t like the idea of exporting the OPML from Google Reader and massaging it into an HTML format, because it would have meant an other thing which needed periodic updates. The solution was to…
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License your work!
This post was inspired by the “I’m a creative commoner” post of the dammit.lt blog. Disclaimer: IANAL – I Am Not A Lawyer. Why should you license your work? because it makes clear under what conditions can it be reused / quoted / etc because it is more probably that others will use it and…
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Adding a world clock to your blog
Quite some time ago I’ve written a post about how to create a clock which shows the blog author’s time zone. The intention was to make relative temporal references (like “tomorrow”, “yesterday”, “within the last hour”, etc) more relevant to readers from different timezones. While the method worked perfectly, it did require you to have…
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ScribeFire review (comparison with Windows Live Writer)
I’m constantly searching for more efficient ways to write blogposts. Currently I’m using Windows Live Writer in a VirtualBox instance running Windows 7, but I wanted to give ScribeFire a try. The short version: it had some interesting features, but on the whole it had too many negatives compared to Live Writer to be useful…
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Blogger tag plugin
I wanted to install the the Cumulus plugin for Blogger, however I realized that I have too many tags :-), so here is a static snapshot instead. Blogumulus by Roy Tanck and Amanda Fazani Update: reduced the number of tags to avoid hogging the CPU. Update: the server hosting the javascript / flash files went…
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Migrating feeds over to Google Feedburner
I migrated over the feeds from Feedburner to Google Feedburner. Everything seems to went well and hopefully there won’t be any problems. All you need is to signed into your Google Account, after which you try to sign into Feedburner and it will automatically offer to bind the Google account to your Feedburner account. Hopefully…
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Update to the Top Commenters widget
Some time ago I created a "Top Commenters" widget for Blogger using Yahoo Pipes. Unfortunately my efforts to use the resulting RSS directly failed. The problem was that Blogger was displaying older entries, even though I tried a bunch of different things to convince it that the element were new (like setting the date, adding…