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Gallery: 11-6-2005
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Gallery: 11-5-2005
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Gallery: 11-4-2005
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Round Top
Writing this from the beautiful town of Round Rock Top, TX. There is nothing quite like the open roads of Texas to clear your mind.
Gallery: 11-3-2005
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Panel Blogged
Shel Israel has been blogging the conference, and he liveblogged the panel I was on. He’s on the stage right now (with a lawyer and the woman from Delta who was fired for the pictures) so I’ll stop blogging and pay attention.
Gallery: 11-2-2005
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WordPress RSS
Since a couple of people have asked about it, I’ve already written a blog response to Scoble’s WP RSS post here. Part of it was definitely our fault, related to a web server problem and the datacenter move. (LiteSpeed has already released a new version that fixes the bug.)
Shure to Break
I’ve been mostly happy with my Shure E3C headphones, but I only got them because I had some E2Cs which the cable went bad on. Now, right before I get on a plane and need them most, one of the heads just broke off the E3C and I highly doubt I’m going to ever buy a Shure product again, and I’m no longer recommending them to friends. Fool me twice…
Gallery: 11-1-2005
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Paper Shredder
I just realized that I use a paper shredder not because I’m particularly concerned with the sensitivity of anything I deal with, but rather because it makes going through mail so much more fun and satisfying.
Gallery: 10-29-2005
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Jeff Nolan on Service
Jeff Nolan goes off about his washing machine. (Also, datacenter moves are rough, we’re doing one this weekend. I also moved photomatt.net a few days ago.)
Gallery: 10-28-2005
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Blogebrity Interview
I did an interview with “Blogebrity” the other day covering a pretty wide range of topics from CNET to splogs, and a little bit of Akismet at the end.
Gallery: 10-27-2005
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Gallery: 10-26-2005
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Akismet Stops Spam
Akismet is a new web service that stops comment and trackback spam. (Or at least tries really hard to.) The service is usable immediately as a WordPress plugin and the API could also be adapted for other systems.
I must say, this has been one of the more rewarding things I’ve worked on lately — when people tell you they’re able to spend more time with their family because they’re not spending 30 minutes a day dealing with spam it really puts things in perspective. If nothing else, I hope this makes blogging more joyful for at least one person.
Anyway, try it out, install it for a friend, link it on your blog. The more you use it the more effective it becomes. It’s a virtuous cycle that will hopefully curb the spam arms race.
Update: The reviews are starting to come in. Here’s some one with stats (from when the service was still in development).