Remember to check and empty your WordPress spam

177 spams.

Check the list of Spam comments in your WordPress blog regularly. Retrieve any that aren’t spam, and ditch the ones that are.

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How to discover custom field names via PHPMyAdmin

Some meta_key names for my blog.

Use PHPMyAdmin to view the database that runs your WordPress blog. You can do handy things, such as finding out the names for custom fields.

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Tag you’re it

mummy#4 08.480.2.

10 years ago The Brooklyn Museum in New York, started looking for ways to involve their community more deeply and actively.

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Is that a chip on your letterbox?

Is this rubbish bin networked?

If computer chips are really cheap, and easily networked, perhaps we’ll start to use them in many more places, for many more purposes.

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Nap more; learn more

Napping

Daytime napping improves brain power, or so the scientists say.

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TextExpander 3 saves even more time

A TextExpander fill-in-the-blank snippet.

TextExpander is an utterly essential utility on my Mac. Version 3 brings changes and improvements.

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Welly Walks for iPhone guides you round Wellington

Welly Walks.

The Welly Walks iPhone app provides photos, maps and tourist guide information for Wellington, New Zealand. It’s free too!

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Blacklist this ‘marketing specialist’

Less obvious spam.

At least one Christchurch based ‘internet marketing specialist’ is a slimy spammer. Beware the innocuous but meaningless blog comments.

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Our undersea weakest link

Broadband will only ever be as fast as the narrowest point.

The undersea cable that brings the Internet to New Zealand is a long, wet, weak link. Pacific Fibre plan to make sure we keep up with the best in the world.

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Wellywood sign? Embarrassing.

Wellywood sign artist impression.

How embarrassing: Wellington’s going to get a rip-off of the Hollywood sign to celebrate our burgeoning film industry. Something original must be too hard for us.

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