My lowly little web site turned into a comment spammers paradise last Sunday. I had to delete over 500 comments that ranged from completely irrelevant to the site to downright disgusting. I had tried the Drupal module "bad behavior", but ended up somehow locking myself out of my own site. I'm sure that was due…
I spent many years of my adult life working in and around the World Trade Center. After 9/11, I worked directly across the street to the east at 1 Liberty Plaza. My husband works directly across the street to the west in the Financial Center. Even though I have walked through and around the site…
Not the most earth shattering news (by any stretch), but I found it interesting that the word "aggregator" is not in the Google spell check on my tool bar or in the Flock blog posting tool. The only reason this is worthy of 5 seconds of thought is that it highlights the fact that the…
The fall semester of Effective Writing in Instructional Technology is kicking off this week and I am having a great time linking through to all of the great suggested web resources. I've been trying to figure out the best way to capture a "Reading List" of resources. For now, I've created a sort of "mash…
I’m not sure the purpose, but I am “claiming” my blog in Technorati! Technorati Profile
YouTube was down for a bit today validating the number one reason why I won't put important "stuff" on free third party sides – better for just the "fun" stuff. Therefore, my YouTube video won't appear here for now.
Thanks for the “heads up” from D’Arcy Norman.net on the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) review from IBM Developer Works. Even though I’m a biased Drupal user, it is an interesting comparison of some of the most popular options, including Drupal (the winner!), Mambo, Typo3, Ruby on Rails, Movable Type, WordPress and TextPattern.
I’m giving Feedburner a try. If you have a couple of seconds, please update the feed to my blog.
I updated several posts today (tags and such). Sorry for the RSS dump of old junk!
As an early adopter of technology, I jumped onto the Vonage VoIP bandwagon. I did not have the best experience with the service (lots and lots of dropped calls) which could have been related to my cable Internet service. In any event, I decided yesterday to cancel the service as I no longer even have…