Curbing Comment Spam

I’ve been watching my spam and for several weeks now a particular post about a certain deity based on a thin pasta noodle has been getting nailed will over 99% of my comment spam. This led me to close comments and pings on that post this morning. It also brought a realization, why only that…

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How is coffee decaffeinated?

A reader wrote to Ask Yahoo! wondering How is coffee decaffeinated? The answer is very interesting. Ask Yahoo: For most coffee beans, it begins with a nice, long soak. This submersion draws the caffeine from its beans, leaving us with a bushel of decaffeinated java seeds ready to be roasted, brewed, and slurped down. But…

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links for 2006-01-03

Locomotive A most awesome stand alone implementation of Ruby on Rails. Contains Ruby, Rails, SQLite DB and Lighttpd with FastCGI. (tags: ruby rails osx rubyonrails mac programming software ajax Apple apps cool developer development framework howto) Ruby on Rails (with FastCGI) An informative instructional on installing RoR on a shared web host you have SSH…

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links for 2006-01-02

Wayfaring Explore maps created by others or create your own custome maps and share them with friends. (tags: ajax apps javascript Map maps google googlemaps travel web2.0 tools) Typo A RoR based blogging environment that sports a clean interface and a feature rich environment. (tags: ajax apps blog ruby rails software blogging cms weblog web2.0…

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Instant Rails: Just Add user

If you’d like to start developing Ruby on Rails but installing and configuring Apache and MySQL’s got you a little scared then there’s something you need to check out. Instant Rails. Instant Rails is an all-in-one deploy-and-develop environment for Rails that comes with Ruby, Rails, Apache and MySQL ready to go out of the box….

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The White House Criminal Conspiracy

Is lying publicly to make a case for war more heinous than lying about a blowjob? One writer for The Nation believes so and she’s got the goods that show why impeachment is the only road for President Bush. The White House Criminal Conspiracy Americans may have been unaware of this deceit then, but they…

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Tech Jobs Look To Be Hot In 2006

If you’re thinking about a new job in the tech market in 2006 there’s something you should know, you’re in high demand. Contrary to what some would have us believe most IT/Development jobs aren’t going overseas. In fact, relatively few are as Computerworld fooudn out. Computerworld Despite the notion that hordes of U.S. IT jobs…

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