When the rexblog director of hackology Patrick (Scriptalias) Ragsdale migrated this blog over to Wordpress recently, he included a plug-in called Akismet that he told me would help filter out comment and trackback spam. The plug-in is magic. It has filtered about 1,000 comment-spam attempts in the past month and has had only two false-positives. (One of which was, ironically, from one of this blogs original seven readers.)
Askismet is separate from the Wordpress feature I’ve activated that requires my approval for the first comment from someone. I’m typically pretty prompt in approving those and have let all comments through. The Akismet feature keeps spam comments from ever even showing up in that approval queue, however.
I also wanted to mention I’ve added the Snap preview feature to the rexblog so that when you hover your cursor over an out-bound link a little preview thumbnail of that site should appear. I’m merely experimenting with it, but it looks pretty helpful. Other than a credit line for Snap.com, there are no ads on the previews. (Note: if the link is to something on rexblog, there is no preview.)
Right here in one article, one can see how Pacman Jones got his name. Like the videogame, he can be heading in one direction and pivot instantly into reverse.
First item: He recently spent two warm and fuzzy hours at Vanderbilt Hospital visiting an injured police officer after learning her 9-year-old son is a fan. Second item: At practice yesterday, he starts spewing profanity at a radio sports guy who said something negative about him — oh by the way, did I mention the sports guy is a retired Titans and is easily one of the most popular Titans players of the past decade?
Just ran across this day-old news, “Orange and Apple reach MacBook deal.” Actually, this news item from Macworld.co.uk is significant only because the writer was able to get through the entire story with no puns about being squeezed or seeding the marketplace or fruit salad or sucking. (Later: Unlike these folks.) By the way, the story is about how customers of Orange in France will be able to rent a MacBook and use Orange’s broadband services for around €2 per day. Quote: Executive director of France Telecom (which owns Orange), Louis-Pierre Wenes, said: “It seems appropriate to link the Orange brand with that of Apple, famous for its product innovation and ease of use.” Yes, that’s why it seems appropriate that companies named Orange and Apple link their brands. If it weren’t such low-hanging fruit, I’d continue this post with some more obvious puns.
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