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NoFollow for Word Press

By alex | Published: 1/18/2005
So you’ve read all about the proposed solution for keeping spam comments un-indexed by Google et al, and being a Boy Scout, you want to prepare your WordPress blog now. To that end, I am happy to provide to you my first WordPress plugin. It is kinda dumb, but I think it works. Download the […]
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Searching for me

By alex | Published: 12/2/2004
Talk about symbolic interactionism! I have a bloglines feed that searches for my name. It comes up with Jeremy’s list of common search terms over the last day… which includes me. This is strange and puzzling. The phrase that turns people up at his blog (“alexander halavais and wired”) only barely makes my list over […]
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Firefoxy

By alex | Published: 11/19/2004
I know many of my more far-flung readers have, like me, been using Firefox for a very long time. When I saw the features list, I almost didn’t make the move to version 1.0, because everything was working so well. I’m glad I did. Maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems even faster. It still […]
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But I don’t like spam!

By alex | Published: 10/28/2004
I feel so bad for my poor students who have eagerly awaited comments from the world at large, and have finally gotten them, only to find out that the world wants them to be taking drugs and looking nakid pictures while playing texas holdem. Heck, I feel bad for me deleting dozens of emails telling […]
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