Archive for February, 2006

Fighting Comment Spam

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Despite using a captcha to fight comment spam I’ve seen an increasing amount of the junk in the past few weeks. At first I thought maybe the spammers were getting past the captcha, but carefully analyzing the log files shows that isn’t what happens.
In the most recent comment spam I received the spammer simply used [...]

OmniGraffle for Website Layout Development

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

One thing I love about blogs is that every now and then someone mentions a tip which totally changes how you work. This happened to me yesterday. Peter over at The Blog Studio wrote about how to design a blog. And among the couple dozen juicy paragraphs in the article he wrote this.
I use a [...]

Disable National Access Verizon Treo 650

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Lots of people want the convenience of a PDA/smartphone but don’t care to use any of the “data” features like syncing email, browsing the web, etc. I am one of them. I have a Treo 650 which I use extensively. Having one device as my phone, PDA, calendar, addressbook, and even GPS navigation cuts down [...]

Microsoft Introduces Mac OS X

Monday, February 6th, 2006

These videos have been passed around the internet again and again, however I just recently saw them. The videos depict Microsoft talking about new features in Windows Vista, while the video has been replaced with screenshots of similar functions which are already present in Mac OS X.
I’m not trying to propell the “microsoft steals everything [...]

AOL Feedback Loop Saves the Day

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

More than a year ago I signed up for the AOL Feedback Loop. This is a tool for network administrators to receive notification if any emails sent from your servers are reported as spam by AOL recipients.
Some of my clients run large, double-opt-in mailing lists. Frequently AOL members click on the ‘this is spam’ button [...]

Website Growth

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Another new month marks the time when I gather statistics and review the past few weeks. However instead of my usual recap of the previous month’s stats, I’ll share how things have been going for the past several months.
While I won’t share any actual figures or tell which color is which broker, the slope of [...]