Archive for the 'Misc' Category

Take That, Earthlink!

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Wow, blogging isn’t entirely pointless! I recently discovered I might be part of a class action settlement by Earthlink over early termination fees. I couldn’t remember exactly when or whether I paid them a fee, but it turns out that I blogged about Earthlink and their horrible service in 2007.  So it looks like I […]

Sick of pingback spam!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

It seems odd to me that wordpress would have a highly configurable comment moderation system, but no way to screen pingbacks. Fortunately this plugin that I found via Nick’s blog fixes that. We’ll see if it works. I’m also trying the Simple Trackback Validation Plugin. I think it needs a cleverer name, though.

At least this dog doesn’t bark all the time…

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

I have become a fan of bob the wonder poodle, the dog wearing a tinfoil hat which aspires to have more fans than Glenn Beck (the kinder gentler big fat idiot for a new century). It seems like a fairly good trade to me… the dog doesn’t have the greasy, sweaty face of Glenn, and […]