For Soldiers Back From Iraq, Basic Training in Resuming Life. “Still, when he drives, he says, he finds himself scanning the roads, imagining bombs in bags of trash and potholes. Sometimes he studies Junction City rooftops for snipers.”
Archive for May, 2004
PHP+GD Progress Bar Demo. This would be a cool thing to track contribution progress…
Club vs. Lojack solutions. Mark Pilgrim deliberates comment spam solutions. From October 2002.
Google: Wash, Rinse, Repeat. I am so not original.
If anyone was on the site today between 2:30 and 8:00 PM EST, you were likely greeted with a few hundred random comments whose authors linked to some pretty repulsive sites. Movable Type made the cleanup an excrutiating process:
# Find the latest comments listed in the blog editing menu
# Click them to find out where they were left
# Click on the parent blog entry
# Tag any other offending comments for deletion
# Close comments for that entry
# Save, rebuild, wash, rinse, repeat
There were over 200 comments for which I needed to repeat this scenario. Thankfully, some SQL came in handy. Closing comments for the whole site was as easy as UPDATE mt_entry SET entry_allow_comments = "2";. But, still–that was half an hour of my life wasted deleting comments (and now another half hour wasted writing about it).
Ironic that this should occur so close to Jeffrey Zeldman’s recent affirmation of basic human goodness. That, and my consideration of setting up comments for the links.
WordPress already has features that help comment administration–including moderator approval–which I’d like to implement after switching (an event that is no longer an if). In the meantime, comments will only be open on the five-or-so most recent entries.
3D CSS Box Model. I was trying to explain this to Tom the other day…
Healthy Tension. “Can you feel it? The blind rage over a text entry in a database?”
The Road Ahead for WordPress. Biding my time…
Ethan Redesigns. Okay, this is beyond trendy now.
The Andy Kaufman Effect. “On the Internet, no one knows you’re not the dog you claim to be.”