I get a lot of spam from one of my WordPress contact forms. All of my sites use the old Ryan Duff program (am I missing something? I can’t find the link to it) that served so well for so many years… until the spammers got hold of it.
I found a lovely modification [...]

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I’ve been keeping all my webmaster notes in a WordPress blog for a while, and it’s getting to be a pain to find things.  And, being database driven, it’s not the fastest-running thing on earth.  None of the database-free Wikis I’ve found quite do what I want.  TiddlyWiki rocks, but it’s for your PC, not [...]

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I asked the question a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m able to confirm that the latest update to FireFox blows.  Oh, it’s not crashing or anything like that.  It’s just caching sites when they go down, and then serving up the cached (down) version until you empty the cache or (in some cases) [...]

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About a month ago, I finished re-doing a bunch of sites - including this one - with two-column themes that loaded fast and worked well.  Then they came out with WordPress 2.1, and some of those didn’t work too well with it.
Then they deprecated the very feature that had convinced me I could squeeze all [...]

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It might be slightly premature to refer to my latest linkbait campaign on Project B-2 Bomber as a “success”, but it didn’t totally flop from a lack of interest like some of the others. It’s getting responses on site, at least: whether or not people are telling their friends, I don’t know yet. [...]

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All my directories now require a reciprocal link for free links, and offer paid options for regular non-recip links and featured links. I started these directories a couple of years ago and kept them completely free all that time, but now with the amount of spam I have to clear out of them every [...]

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Is anyone else doing “Review this post” from PayPerPost? I’m getting no response on that.  Even the page views stopped happening about a day after I started posting.  I put the links onto another site to see if that generates anymore response.
I’m thinking I probably just don’t have any readers who aren’t already with PPP, [...]

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I finally got B-2 Bomber working right - turned out to be a bad plugin.  It was a pagination script that turned those little “previous/next entries” tags at the bottom into nice little numbers.  Unfortunately, I think it must have been doing a total page count every time a page loaded.  That’s why the homepage [...]

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