Archive for the ‘ internet ’ Category

Akismet 1000 Spam Barrier

Sometime a few days ago Akismet intercepted the 1000th piece of blog spam before it could touch my site. I installed it about four months ago. There’s currently 169 comments in the 15 day cue. Seems to be high tide—it fluctuates down to around 60 or so. Still no false positives. I’ve had to moderate [ READ MORE ]

Sorry, Bub.

So Akismet had this comment from “steve” on my post about the X-Men III trailer sitting in moderation [links removed]: The 7 minutes x-men trailers did show Wolverine move. It is cool. cannot wait until it coming out x-men will be a good movie. cannot wait until it coming out. Do you guys think there [ READ MORE ]

Installed AWStats On TextDrive With 1&1 Logs

Well, once upon a time, TextDrive accounts came with Urchin web statistics analysis, but i wasn’t using my TextDrive space for a while and never got to use Urchin. It was bought by Google for their Analytics system, and it no longer worked for TextDrive. I had been keeping an eye out for something else, [ READ MORE ]

Spring Reboot Color Trends

Phu Ly notes some of the color trends in his picks from the Spring 2006 CSS Reboot. I’ve been noticing as he has that greens and dark grays seem to be a popular choice these days[ READ MORE ]

A Neat Little Kayak

Just wanted to take a second to pimp Kayak.com. I had been making the rounds through the travel search usual suspects (Priceline.com, Orbitz, etc.). Orbitz (and cheaptickets.com which seems to be the exact same search engine) puts the brakes on my ancient computer with it’s huge, complex page layouts and floating options panel. So it [ READ MORE ]

The Years