May 2004

RSS Blog

Dave Winer’s reallySimpleSyndic News will be one to watch. I wanted to start a site where people from the RSS users community can answer questions to help newbies figure out what to do with an RSS feed without requiring a PhD in XML. [Via: Lockergnome's RSS Resource]

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Good for you? Good for Google

Derek Miller writes many interesting items at Penmachine.com. His post about how one article ranks well in Google is a great read. This is just one small excerpt. What it comes down to is, (a) I wrote the best article I could, and (b) I let people on the Web know about it, and in [...]

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Shatner and Nimoy explain Star Trek

When Star Trek began in 1966 I was just 11 years old and probably already a fan of sci-fi. Dr Who first screened in 1963 although we had migrated to New Zealand in August of that year and didn’t have a TV for a while. William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and Leonard Nimoy (Mr Spock) were [...]

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Learning Centre updated

After a very busy week I finally have some time off. I’ve spent some of it upgrading the Learning Centre which runs on the ATutor system from v1.3.2 to v1.4. It seems much quicker now. I’ve lso managed to remove some of those pesky “Enrol” links. You don’t need to register or enrol or anything. [...]

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Blocking comment spammers

Good to read this today on Typepad Resources TypePad vs. Comment Spammers Recently we added some simple tests that eliminate a large amount of comment spam on TypePad blogs. According to our logs, most spammers try to cover their tracks by sending their posts through an “Open Proxy Server” … we started blocking Open Proxies [...]

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Organised attachments

There are many subtleties to consider when setting up a new Mac. Today I realised I was sick of attachments just being dumped into an Attachments Folder. On the older Mac something created a dated folder every day and move attachments into it. This was very helpful in keeping things organised. After a brief scout [...]

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