by Jim Stitzel | Dec 19, 2005 | Technology
Final note, hopefully, on the comment spam and trackback issue — I found a different bot check software called “Captcha!”:http://www.boriel.com/?page_id=17 that still provides the security of random image generation to prove human commenting but that...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 18, 2005 | Technology
Scratch the previous…. I decided I _really_ didn’t like forcing people to register with Writer’s Blog in order to comment, so instead I’ve added a bit of bot-check code to my site. When you want to comment, simply complete the code field as you...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 13, 2005 | Technology
Time to give a shoutout to another project of mine, I think. You’ll notice that Writer’s Blog is actually a subdirectory to “www.open-dialogue.com”:http://www.open-dialogue.com. If you drop the subdirectory (i.e. /blog) from the URL,...
by Jim Stitzel | Dec 9, 2005 | Technology
My wife and I are shopping for real estate to move us a little closer to my new job. We have a piece of property that we have fallen in love with that has the option to buy any part of an additional 40 acres. We definitely want to buy a chunk of that land and have...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 30, 2005 | Technology, Writing
Over the last few years, I’ve surfed a lot of weblogs, and I’ve discovered that there are well-designed blogs aplenty and poorly designed blogs even more aplenty. The good ones make me smile and inspire to hack my own code to create something just as nice....
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 30, 2005 | Technology
Is it sad to get all excited about a couple of relatively minor geek-tweaks to my site? Probably, but I don’t think I care all that much. I’ve been working on implementing ways to publish my site more widely and expand my readership. Today, for instance, I...
