Just a quick entry to stay in the writing habit. Which, while it’s picked up quite a bit again due to my new crusade it seems *g*, it’s still not a daily endeavor as I’d like it to be. So, even if it’s tripe (er, more tripe than usual,) I’ll try to post something each [...]
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Take that, Spam!
Alright! MT-Blacklist (that beautiful, wonderful man!) has released a new “emergency” upgrade in Blacklist for MoveableType 3.x users (like myself.) It’s a blog plugin I had used before I upgraded my blog software, which was blocking dozens of spam comments a day! Since it stopped working I turned off blog commenting altogether. Now that there’s [...]
READ MORE »Coming Out From My (Bash) Shell
Well, I’m into shell scripting now! It’s amazing! It makes me feel like I did back in 7th grade when I discovered programming on Apple II’s, and 9th grade when I started using Basic on Commadores, and a few years ago when I started PHP. The feeling of power, of control. That you can make [...]
READ MORE »Cool, Basic Linux Commands
So I’ve been using Linux for about 6 years now. Off and on. In that time I’ve learned to do a LOT of things–from building drivers to get odd pieces of hardware to work to writing scripts that do daily backups. But it seems, even as late as last week, I keep finding all these [...]
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