Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Since my move to Wordpress, I have been noticing a lot of funny track back hits going back to my old Movable Type installation. First of all, all of these hits were coming back from different IP addresses and different browsers. Second, they all had the same refer. Something was ...
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
After many years of hosting this blog on MovableType, I am switching this blog and hopefully all of my static content to Wordpress. There is simply so much more user support out there for Wordpress than MT.
Expect bugs for the next few days...
UPDATE: The move is complete and seems to have worked. ...
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
Some of you may have noticed that I haven't been posting as often as usual. Well, the secret is out - we recently bought a house and just finished our move, so I have been kind of busy. I will be posting a bit more often from now on.
Additionally, I ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
After using tagging in other services (Flickr, Technorati, etc.) I finally got around to adding tagging to this blog. I used the recently released Tags plugin developed by MovableType. It uses the "Keywords" section of the MT template to enter tags, and upon entry it adds them to the "Tags" ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2005
Since I upgraded to MT v3.2, the amount of comment and trackback spam has gone down, probably due to their blacklist lookup feature. However, since then two types of spam accounted for over 90 % of whatever got through:
1. Links to sites hosted by free adult webhosting sites called anzwers.net.
2. ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
After getting hit with several spam floods over the past few weeks, I am upgrading to v3.17 of MovableType. Please be patient as there might be occasional hiccups.
UPDATE: Upgrade has been succesful.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
While going through some old posts tonight I started wondering why many of them have comments turned off. After some time I remember that I installed the MT-CloseComments plugin. I have shut that plugin off so I can have comments again and hopefully some of the anti-spam techniques that I ...
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Saturday, February 12th, 2005
I updated my MT-Banned-List plugin with rudimentary support for DxL. You can download it here, my DxL list can be found here.
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
(For MT-Banned-List plugin for publishing the internal MT IP ban list, please see this post)
Overnight I got slammed by two trackback spam attacks to my blog, both lasting about two hours and originating from over 20 IPs. I added all of them to my banned list to prevent further occurrences. ...
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
Tonight I added inline trackbacks to this blog so users don't have to click on popups to see them. I followed the instructions at the "Learning Movable Type" site (method A). I tried using Adam Kalsey's SimpleComments but for some reason couldn't get it to work.
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