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Spam, spam, spam, spam…

By alex | Published: 10/16/2005
One of the things that I left behind when I moved servers was the CAPTCHA system I had running before. I should note that that system meant I had almost no spam on my blogs for a period of a couple of years. Now, I get several score messages caught in the moderation queue every […]
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Kubrick?

By alex | Published: 10/12/2005
I waited way too long to transfer my account, and my old ISP finally gave up on me. (They only loved me for my money.) So a bit of a rocky transition over to Dreamhost. What’s changed? Most probably won’t notice, particularly if you are reading via the feed. Right now, the blog is pretty […]
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Moving

By alex | Published: 8/23/2005
It seems the only ones posting to my site these days are the script-kiddies, who have nailed both my main pages recently, using (I am assuming) an insecure PHP script on my site to allow for shell commands to pass through. I’m guessing it is a hole in WordPress (I’m still running 1.2), but I’m […]
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Faking a podcast

By alex | Published: 7/24/2005
Talkr lets you podcast without actually recording anything. It takes one of your existing feeds and uses text-to-speech to create a version of the RSS feed with Audio enclosures. Here is mine. I’m not a big fan of text-to-speech, but this is actually pretty listenable. Heck, they even get my name right.
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