Archive for the ‘Nonsense’ Category

A cache-friendly method for reducing WordPress comment spam

A safe-for-cached-pages method of filtering out spam comments by requiring at least some time to have passed between the time the page is loaded and the form is submitted.

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My impressions of I-GO car sharing

We have been using I-GO car sharing for a few months now, since we sold the Volvo Cross Country (which I loved) to cut down on our monthly expenses. With the car loan, parking, gas, maintenance, and insurance, we were paying around $400 a month, and because we both take public transportation whenever possible, we [...]

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OOP PHP Notes

My notes on learning Object Oriented Programming in PHP.

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Native Windows compressed folders utility fails, asks for 5.99 PB free space

Extracting certain large zip files using Windows’ native compression utility fails with a pretty neat error: You need an additional 5.99 PB to copy these files.

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Xbox.com forums redesigned – old content deleted or abandoned

After the Xbox forums were redesigned, some of the old forum’s content was moved to a subdomain and abandoned.

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Blogspot.com and Googlebot

Just how quickly does Googlebot visit a page after it is linked to from a post on blogspot.com?

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Illinois Bright Start Match Promotion Update – Refunds

A refund of contributions is the best we’re going to get from Bright Start and Office of the Illinois State Treasurer after they botch a promotion and disappoint over 7,000 account owners.

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Jealous of The Social Network

A short list of my programming accomplishments.

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Illinois Bright Start Match Promotion Update – You Lose, Slowpokes

A rant about the badly mismanaged Illinois Bright Start College Savings Program Deposit Match promotion of June, 2010, in which a very small percentage of the program participants had any chance of taking advantage of the offer.

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GameFly Free Month

A referral link for a free month of games (2 out at a time) from GameFly.

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