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A few days ago I upgraded to the new WordPress 1.5. Very nice.
Most of the changes you won’t be able to see since the themeing engine and admin panel overhaul are the two biggest things. The moderation system for comments and trackbacks is much better now, great for deleting all those damn trackback spams.
Mark Jen, the Google blogger who was just fired for blogging about his job, is a buddy of mine from high school and college:
Mark Jen, a blogger whose candid comments about life on the job at Google sparked controversy last month, has left the company. “Mark is no longer an employee at Google,” a Google representative said in response to an inquiry Tuesday. Efforts to reach Jen for comment were not immediately successful. Jen’s departure comes less than a month after he joined Google as part of a wave of new hires and began recording his impressions of his new employer, including criticisms, in his blog.
I’m talking to him about it now. Maybe I can help shed some light on the whole situation.
Update: Mark’s posted the whole story in an entry on his blog.
Tags: bloggage, me, technology
Ok so I fix my problem with comment spam by forcing my commenters to jump through hoops with a captcha.
Now they’ve resorted to spamming my TrackBacks… where will it end?
Fortunately they were content hitting me with a few dozen ads for their sicko horse porn, which were easily deleted from my database. Any creative solutions for TrackBack spam?
The dynamic links on the left-hand-side of my blog are pulled dynamically from Del.icio.us. This makes it easy for me to manage my link collections without cluttering up my WordPress database.
Since I think others might like to take advantage of this as well, I’ve packaged it up into an easy-to-use WordPress plugin.
I’m proud to announce the Del.icio.us Plugin for WordPress version 1.0.
Update: Ok so it appears I should have done some more research before going through all the work to polish up my plugin. But mine is still new and different and in my opinion, better.
I did some surfing this afternoon (Thursdays are my easy day) and found some other good reflections on Tuesday’s election:
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