Jeff Starr wrote back in March about his attempts at keeping scammers and crackers and other undesirables away from his web sites. He’s published his suggested settings for the Apache web server at The Perishable Press 4G Blacklist. I’m not a fan of adding lots of stuff to my core system files. So I simply […]
Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.
Recommended Server Software: Pixelpost
If you are an active photographer, you should definitely look into using Pixelpost to manage your online photo collection. I’m using it for my Fractal of the Day web site. From the Pixelpost introduction: Meet Pixelpost, a small photoblog application that’s a no-brainer to set up and use. It’s perfect for anyone wishing to regularly […]
Double Check The Year In Your Footer
With the new year comes a very easily remedied problem: many web sites still say 2009 in their footer. You can either hard-code the year in the footer.php page in your site’s template and manually update each January 1st. Or you can add this bit of php code: <?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> in place of […]
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-24
Just unsubscribed from the Dictionary.com word of the day rss feed. Too many ads! My annual feed subscription cleanup starts next week! #
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-22
Today I took my 10,000th photo with my Canon Powershot A70. The great little camera that keeps on working! #
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-21
@drylk It looks like the elastic theme 0.0.2.7 isn't happy with WP 2.9. But it's a great project idea. What do you need help with? # Upgraded all of my blogs to the latest #WordPress version 2.9.0. Not a hitch in the whole process. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-19
Oh boy! A new WordPress just came out! I guess i know what I'm doing on my Saturday snow day. #
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-18
@ChrisNaille Umm, I think you mean a warning from midnight until Sunday morning, don't you? 🙂 # Just got spam to an email address given to an aweber.com affiliate. Always use tagged addresses: http://planetmike.com/goto/460 # Whoa! Aweber.com has been breached. I'm getting the same spam at multiple email addresses that were given only to aweber.com […]
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-15
I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009 #
Twitter Updates for 2009-12-13
The overload of Wunderground.com's ads are forcing me away. I know ads are part of their business plan, but enough is enough. #