Really, what else do you need before you switch to a decent browser such as Firefox, Opera, Konqueror or Safari?
Using IE these days goes far beyond “not caring about tech stuff”. It’s more in the realm of covering your ears with your hands, and singing “la la la, I can’t year you!”. It’s intentional ignorance mixed with a great deal of stubbornness.
It’s just plain dumb.
Source: Mário Lopes
It’s amazing that this thing has been posted in at least two places (this blog is one of them), and I’ve seen nothing, anywhere, coming from it. No blog entries. No discussions. Not even comments under the two blog entries. And it works – even my 2 “late afternoon” attempts have been actually making me money, which, considering that they don’t cost me anything in terms of time, effort or money, is great.
Let’s put it like this: imagine you can do something today, that, starting 6 months from now, will make you about a dollar a day. That’s $30 a month… insignificant, right?
But you can do it several times. As many as you want.
For Portuguese-speaking readers: I’ve just created a new phpBB forum, Nintendo DS – Portugal.
It’s still in the beginning, but I hope it’ll be successful – and I hope that I don’t own the only Nintendo DS in Portugal. 
So, if you speak Portuguese, and have a Nintendo DS or are considering buying one, you’ll be welcome there.
As every other blog in the world has already announced, WordPress 2.0 is out.
I’m goint to wait until January to try it out; meanwhile, all my blogs are still running 1.5.2.
… or whatever holiday you celebrate!
See you in a couple of days…
Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger has an article titled A Story About the Importance of Checking Your Blog’s Stats, in which he not only mentions another blogger’s own experience, but tells of his own: he had a photography site in which he once posted a review of a particular digital camera, and after a while he noticed that that particular post had more hits than all the others put together… which got him thinking about making a blog about digital camera reviews… and the rest is history.
Incidentally, I have written before in the Blogging Tips series about how important it is to check your logs and statistics, though I have to admit that my own article is more about how to make your blog more successful, instead of what to blog about. 
It’s been working perfectly. It caught every single spam message in the last couple of days, and required no action from me. Instead of having 15 emails in the morning asking me to moderate spam comments, I just get a report telling me what was caught, and why.
I had expected some kind of bayesian filter, but this plugin does much, much more. Just look at the configuration panel in the WordPress administration section – it’s really well done.
I should have installed this much sooner.. but better late than never, right?
Here it is, my 7th blog: A Revolution in Gaming.
It’s about the only announced console that actually has me interested – because I’m too old to be swayed by “even more polygons than the generation before!!!”.
Go on, visit it.
Warning: that site is somewhat green.
Das Keyboard: not only is it incredibly cool, and great to impress cow-orkers (have you orked a cow today?), but, supposedly, it’s great for people who still have to look at the keys when typing, to wean them out of doing so.
Caveat: $80 is kind of expensive… 
Source: NullBlogException
Look at this blog’s posts, both old and new. Even the most successful posts. See any comment spam?
Nope, because moderation stops it. (as an aside, I consider “hi, nice blog” posts to be spam, though not of the “sleazy” kind.) Manual moderation… until now.
But it’s getting quite annoying, because I have observed a pattern in several of my blogs, where a bot tries to post a 3-line spam which starts by complimenting the post, or the entire blog, in a generic way (and in English, even in my Portuguese language blogs), and then posts 2 or 3 links, disguised as news or technical articles. This happens in quick succession (usually 15 or so posts in a couple of minutes), coming from different IP addresses (probably zombie machines).
I have experimented with the Bad Behavior plugin before, but ultimately I had to disable it, because it blocked traffic at the HTTP level, including some legitimate (but perhaps not as well-coded as they should be) bots or external tools – once I couldn’t even connect with Konqueror until I changed my id string!
So, for the last couple of days I had to be moderating 15 or so posts per day… per blog… as spam. Recieving an email for each one, of course.
No more. I’ve installed the Spam Karma 2 WordPress plugin. Let’s see how well it works… the administration interface is excellent, and the plugin seems very well comprehensive and documented. So far, so good.
Now, where are some spammers when we need them?
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