Archive for December, 2004

Wordpress Update Bandwagon

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004

It’s crowded in here.
I updated to Wordpress 1.2.2 recently.
This is a partial list of other people who upgraded recently from the first 2 SERPs for ‘Wordpress 1.2.2′ at technorati. I counted 19 entries from people who updated to 1.2.2. There were several posts in foreign languages, so I’m sure the actual count is […]

Help Stop Spam Harvestors - Project Honey Pot

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

Harvest Time For Spammers an article by Brian Livingston about Project Honey Pot. Donate a subdomain MX record to help stop spam.

Google Suggest

Monday, December 13th, 2004

In the gaggle of posts on the new Google Suggest Beta search tool, these are the ones I’ve found notable:
Best Quote: That’s right–Google doesn’t suggest “sex.” by Elliot Back (And here I thought Google Guy was tight-lipped)
Most Useful: Hacking Google Suggest by Adam Stiles
Longest Discussion: Google Suggest thread at […]

Unencoded Amazon Web Service data makes XSLT abort

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

I’ll only admit to being slightly masochistic.
When I set out to create my new bookstore, Magic Amazon Beans, I focused on using XSLT to process the XML replies from Amazon. They have an option to send the results of an XSL transform as a reply instead of their normal XML file. You simply […]

My New Bookstore

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Magic Amazon Beans v0.2

I added an Amazon book store to Magic Bean Dip today. It’s still rudimentary, but it works. I wrote my own software and used the new ECS 4.0 data interface supplied by Amazon, with PHP and the Pear libraries to process the data.
This is my abbreviated to do list:

Retry failed […]