December 2004

  • The Need for News

    How else would we read even more evidence about the ever-increasing costs of certain programs? Or find out about the death of a giant buck deer? Naturally, we also may need to find more information about truly disconcerting issues, and without the news, we wouldn't. But I can't…

  • More Dirify Options

    Way back when, I changed my permalink methods so that I would end up with more useful link names. More useful to me, and perhaps to you as well. Over time, this generally worked very well. But as time wore on, I found more and more often I…

  • No Wonder We Suck

    Nearly half of all Americans believe that the civil liberties of Muslim Americans should be restricted. Now, the article doesn't mention which liberties should be restricted, and it also doesn't mention if it's only the liberties of Muslim Americans. After all, if the poll asked about restricting the…

  • Bloglines Toolkit 1.5.1

    About a week ago, I pushed a new version of the Bloglines Toolkit to the site. This version, 1.5.1, does not change anything function-wise, but it does unify the toolkit into a single package containing multiple localizations. Okay, multiple might be a bit much. It has the English…

  • More Pending Comments

    In the last example, I showed you how to list pending comments so that you may easily delete them. This actually works and you should be fine with it. However, there are some other changes that you may want to make so that this feature will be better…

  • List Pending Comments

    So MT-Moderate automatically moderates most comments that you'll want moderated. This is a huge step in blocking comment spam. If it doesn't show up on the site, then that's most of the battle. In fact, for some people, it is all of the battle. All you have to…

  • Trying Trillian Pro

    I tried to like GAIM. I really did. As good as it is, I just couldn't quite get it. So I'm back to Trillian. I finally heard back from Cerulean Studios (makers of Trillian) on my payment. According to the email, they are having problems with PayPal payments….

  • Money Matters

    Are you concerned about terrorism? I don't mean in a general, worldwide, sort of way. I mean on a regular, even daily, basis. I know I'm not. That doesn't mean that I don't think there is any reason for concern (so no need to prove me wrong, Osama)….

  • Bonaire Day Two

    The next morning, we had breakfast at the Inn and decided that we needed a car. The island isn't huge, and the city (Kralendijk) isn't that big, but it would help. So we had the innkeeper call a service for us. The promised rate was something around $25…

  • Multiple Domains with Exchange 2003

    I've been setting up three new domains on an Exchange 2003 server for a few days. It really isn't that difficult, but it's taken me a bit to get used to working with 2003. It's a lot different (a lot more integrated) than previously. Of course, 2000 versions…