Since I installed NoSpamNX, I get far fewer comment spams in my Akismet spam box… like 5 per day and they are all from the one spammer who has so far figured his way around the plugin. The plugin blocks about 100 comment spams per day.
Now there are so few spams in my comment spam box that it’s possible for me to review them by hand weekly. Today I found a false positive in the Akismet comment spam pile. This would have been impossible without NoSpamNX.
If you have a WordPress blog, you should install NoSpamNX. No, wait. If everyone does it, then the spammers will all write smarter bots that get around this defense. So… umm, everyone use a different method! Don’t use NoSpamNX. This one will be used only on my site!
I liked it a lot.
I was blindsided with the surprise ending. Don’t learn the spoiler before you see the movie. It’s kind of Fearless meets The Crying Game. No it’s not. I liked it anyway.
Last week I got to attend “From The ‘Hood to the House”. This year, the Glide Church annual holiday festival was held at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House on the 12th. It was quite an affair with Maya Angelou, a huge church ensemble singing, dancers, musicians and Cecil Williams celebrating his 45th anniversary running Glide Church.
I have to thank Cindy for inviting Charlotte and I to volunteer for the event. We got to help folks (I helped Cindy in the office much of the day), see most of the show and try a zillion tasty foods. :-)
Saturday I played lasertag with Ziggy and 30 friends in Junipero Serra Park in San Bruno. It was great fun!
I love that expression. I used it at Maker Faire… check the last 10 seconds of the video I made. But I got it wrong, sticking the “and” in there. It’s actually:
“Fly! Be Free!
[Mork tosses the egg in the air. It makes a quick and unfortunate decent to the counter top, smashing]
Well I guess we’ll have to have a quick burial at sea then.”
You can find it 38:18 minutes:seconds into the pilot episode of Mork and Mindy. This is hopefully still a link to the pilot episode of Mork and Mindy.
It’s amazing how individual moments get captured and amplified. I last saw that episode like 20+ years ago.
Last month Charlotte and I saw Robert Cameron’s photo show at the Metreon. It was pretty fantastic.
Yesterday Charlotte told me that he died. That’s the bad news. The good news is that… well, let me grab snippets from his obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Three months ago, Robert Cameron was hanging out of a helicopter taking pictures of Lombard Street.
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He was 98 and in the midst of his last show – “Environmental Journey: Robert Cameron’s Aerial Photography of our Pacific Rim,” which is on display at the Metreon in downtown San Francisco.
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Over four decades, Mr. Cameron produced 15 coffee table books in the “Above” series, with 3 million copies in print.
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Mr. Cameron, who was by then married to his high school sweetheart,
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In lieu of services, the family would like people to attend “Environmental Journey,” Mr. Cameron’s show at the Metreon, scheduled to be up until the end of the month. It includes 59 giant photo murals highlighting green practices and environmental themes from across the Pacific Rim. The window display on Fourth Street is his last photo of Lombard Street, colorfully made over for an anniversary celebration of the board game Candy Land.
“He regarded that show as his legacy,” Tony Cameron said. “He wanted to be able to show at the end of his life the kind of work that he did.”
Go to the show.
Live life.
Why is iTunes so awfully slow? If I weren’t locked into iTunes to sync my iPhone, it would be in the trash right now.
And for what it does, iTunes sucks 9 different ways. I could go into it but why bother? The tasks it is required to do are really very simple. Why did they make it so hard?
Oh, forget it… Calgon, take me away.
from teh internets
“If your nose starts bleeding, it’s because this picture just kicked you in the face.”
(if you know the source of this image, please comment! I found this on motivatedphotos.com)
Keywords: kickassery, tommy gun, cigar, bear, shark
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Update: Here is an image of the Etherpad as of 12-6-09. They were bought by Google for $10 million. Etherpad is to be released as open source and incorporated into Google Wave.
