Mar 19, 2008
Money…it’s good.
I like money. Don’t you? Money enables me to keep my kids in slide rulers, my parakeets in Macaw-sized Nutriberries, my coffee maker always perking (although I will admit, it doesn’t do a darn for keeping kids sock pairs intact….). But I digress. 
Recession….it’s bad.
I don’t like a recession. Recessions mean less money will be spent, which might mean less slide rulers can be bought or my parakeets will have to endure agony of plain old birdieSeed or my coffee maker will [Read more]
Mar 7, 2008
Spambots.
They’re icky things, they are. Their sole purpose is to get their owner’s links on your blog via automatic postings that, if left unchecked, can flood your blog and bring it to its knees.
Luckily, there are several wordpress plugins you can add to your blog and decimate the effect of robospammers. And here they are!
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Mar 3, 2008
One of the wondrous benefits of blogging is that your words can be shared near and far! Joy!
Conversely…..
One of the hells of blogging is that your words can be shared near and far and without attribution! Un-Joy!
‘Tis a sad, lamentable fact indeed, but there DO exist folks out there who will take your content and brutally slash off your credentials, claiming your work as their’s, and profiting from your blood, sweat and tears. It reminds me of Tom Lehrer’s Lobachevsky:
I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!
Plagiarize,
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize…
Only be sure always to call it please, “research”.
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Mar 1, 2008
If there’s one thing I despise in life, it’s the heathen scum that infest the Internet and tries to send spambots to my comments area.
But if there’s one thing I truly DETEST in life, it’s said heathen scum bonking at my Wordpress login page and making bogus registrations. They’re about as welcome and appetizing as a dish of cockroaches appearing at a formal dining event hosted by the International Society of Protocol and Etiquette Professionals, wouldn’t you agree?
‘Course you’d agree! You’re a smart online professional, right? Your time is valuable and your site is your own special abode on the Internet…you don’t want it to become a hangout for utter loser spam bots waiting to flood your thousands of posts with their own particular brand of ickyness.
Now, if you don’t allow people to register in the first place, you’re home free! But what about those situations in which you want to make certain registration is available?
Hmmmm?
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