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Thanks to Todd for alerting me that a low life spammer was exploiting Feed2JS to redirect feed links to their product site. It was clever, coy, and annoying all in one package.
The spammer was generating a feed that had embedded javascript in the channel->description field of the feed, and when rendered via Feed2JS with the [...]

It takes a creative mind to think of a catchy clog subtitle, you know, a pithy phrase that can run underneath the blog’s name. Leave it to Guy Kawasaki’s Signum sine tinnitu:

or skipping passed the image squinting:
Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do.
Perfect.
And just for some reason why [...]

My mis-behaving MacBookPro started its vacation a day before mine, but alas, it’s time away from home is shorter than mine… it was shipped to Apple from my doorstep Thursday afternoon, the 24th, while I left town Friday morning.
The MBP was at Apple’s Spa for Weary Laptops on Friday, and turned around the next day, [...]

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I cannot read signs that I do not like.

Blog activity subject to severe fluctuation– I am off for 12 days at our cabin retreat in Strawberry, AZ, where yes, Stephen, there are truly forests in Arizona.
So I will have my feet on the rail of the deck, or be out in [...]

My laptop screen is officially DOA. My shipping box to send it back to Apple’s intensive care unit should arrive today so I can send it off before I leave for vacation at the end of the week. When I was on the phone with Apple, they kept asking me if the effect was “re-producible” [...]

Utterly amazing, and stupefyingly depressing… Less than 9 minutes after posting Metering Social Bookmarking Services, the inbox registered a quick response… from a casino splog:

who obviously did not read my instructions:
So who can get a high score (pills, porn, and casino, and other cockroach infested sites do not count)?
The roaches are all caught in SpamKarma2 [...]

SocialMeter looked interesting- enter a URL and it pulls some stats from major services like del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Yahoo, technorati for how many times the URL has been bookmarked. It returns a total hit count, and you can click each service to yank up its results.
Of course, just like one’s first foray when GoogleMaps [...]

… though it may not be the best of ideas.
As described a few barks back, in my work at NMC we’ve been exploring some audio technologies, primarily to bring live audio into our Second Life Campus. Because the audio channel in SecondLife that is tied to the “land” needs to be an MP3 url, you [...]

To continue the flogging of a dead equine (yikes, I think I am boring myself)… To get the screen back on my MacBookPro, I have found that powering it down for somewhere greater than 5 hours seems to revive it (for an unknown amount of time).
Yesterday, I let it rest for 3 hours, did a [...]

The sad, tired tale of my lemon scented MacBookPro continues. Not following the take, it starts with one of those days (noisy fan), some bad taste from the Apple Store, a 3 day hiatus before the Lights Went Out in Screenville, followed by the sad song of Citrus Apples, a code #ID 10T, sinking to [...]