As the BrownPau reports, the Trackback Ping Spammers have been relentless – expending hours and energy figuring out new ways to waste our bandwidth and to destroy the blogosphere. So pardon me if I offer yet another post and yet … Continue reading →

“Holy smokes, I’ve been hit! My comment spam ‘secret code’ filter is working like a charm – no spam in weeks, but now they’ve decided to spam through trackback. The other day I had two new trackback pings on older … Continue reading →

I wrote an article for ZDNet, once. I think it was back in 1989 when I reviewed some books on the topic of C programming and MIDI. So imagine my utter shock and disappointment when I couldn’t get through the … Continue reading →

I have a confession to make: I’m not as geeky as you think I am. Oh sure, I can put together a regular expression so I can mod_rewrite old URLs to new, but when it comes to contacting me, I … Continue reading →

One of my favorite movies of all time, and one which reveals I’ve been around for a long time, is the 1966 classic “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming” with Carl Reiner, Jonathan Winters, and a few of … Continue reading →

While many of you enjoy the benefits of bargain basement Linux Apache web hosting services, not everyone is blessed (and sometimes cursed) with the cPanel. A user-friendly, Apache-for-dummies control panel system that helps you manage your site without having to … Continue reading →

For those of you old enough to remember the original Star Trek: The Motion Picture, you might recall a gruesome scene early in the movie where a transporter malfunction turns two incoming shipmates into disfigured piles of short-lived screaming flesh. … Continue reading →

One of the downsides of increased blog popularity is an increase in comment spam attempts. Fortunately, using a variety of tools already at hand, I’m able to identify and block these persistent buggers automagically while I sleep. The Problem Last … Continue reading →