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Due to the increasing threat of Comment Spam, and people leaving comments in old weblog posts, I’ve installed the CloseComments plugin and set it to close threads after they fall off the front page — a seven day shelf life. Is that too early? Or too late?
A “travel” page seems to be committing wholesale bandwidth theft by hotlinking remote images wihout permission: in this case, one of my Bohol photos, among photos from several other sites. (Whether those other sites gave permission, I know not.) Gladly, one can use .htaccess and mod_rewrite to prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft. People attempting to […]
While some say Christopher Reeve’s newly shaved head makes him look like Lex Luthor, I think he’s starting to look a lot like Uncle Fester. What do you think? Update: No, not Fester! LOBOT!
I’ve fallen prey to this myself: Postmodern Christianity and The Matrix — it’s not what you get out of it so much as what you put into it. On the other hand, that’s not so different from some people’s treatment of Scripture. The Iglesia ni Cristo interpretation of Isaiah 43:5, for example. But then, that’s […]
In the “Learn Something New Every Day” Department, peppers have a Heat Scale, in which the quantity of the chemical capsaicin is measured in “Scoville Units.” That’s right: Scoville Units. And according to this gardener, some siling labuyo varieties can reach 100,000 Scoville Units. I can vouch for that, having accidentally bitten into a whole […]
Looking down from the elevator on my way up to the Old Post Office Tower in DC. Few people notice the food court and shopping mall tucked away inside the lower levels. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
Manila Airport shootout. A former air transport officer tried to take over the NAIA control tower with a team of hired gunmen. Bullets fired, people killed, and the Philippines’ long downward spiral continues. Considering that I just got my holiday tickets in the mail yesterday, this isn’t exactly the kind of news I like hearing. […]
One reason unsolicited bulk email is getting worse and worse is because of people who answer spam, whether to buy, complain, or “unsubscribe.” Replying to spam only creates more spam.
A robot floor vacuum sounds like a nice thing to have at first, and I’m sure these people agree, but what happens when they start evolving? How long before they turn against us and start harvesting our body heat for power? (via chris o’donnell)
Who else recoiled in horror at Inq7’s new front page? I completely missed the redesign, since I bookmark the “mobile” interface (which, incidentally, does not work on my mobile device, a Sony Ericsson T300 with a plodding WAP browser). The horror starts right at <table width=1000… and gets steadily worse from there: ghostly floating logos, […]