Apr 8th 05
Posted by arnoldgamboa in Techie
I have known Flickr just recently thru a news item about Yahoo buying Ludicorp, Flickr’s creators. Though I heard it has been popular already for quite sometime, I have not really bothered looking at it. Until last week when I tried to find a better way of storing our digital images — especially those 100+ images on Johann’s first birthday. I did signed up (and here’s my URL). The service is amazing. Just amazing. There’s an uploader, a virtually unlimited web space (because they base their 10 MB/month limit on bandwith, not on space, meaning, if I reached my bandwith quota this month, I can just wait next month and upload another 10Mb!), there’s tags to better organize the URLs of your images, and a lot more. Speed is an issue sometimes, but hey with Yahoo on board, I guess that will improve.
Google, any response? :D
Feb 21st 05
Posted by arnoldgamboa in Techie
You might be noticing by now, if you’re following this blog, that I’ve been “obsessed” in my quest to find an ultimate solution to trackback spam problem. My last posts have been regarding this. So… this would be the last for now, I think.
As I mentioned in my last “trackback” post, I upgraded WP to 1.5-gamma so I would be able to install WP-Spammassasin. Somehow, it worked. Somehow…
I’ve never received those annoying trackback pings since I installed that WordPress plugin. And so i thought everything is working out fine. Until tonight what I visited my “for approval” comment list. There I saw about 400 waiting-for-approval trackback pings. I concluded that each filltered comments/trackback is just being held back. All I need to do is to delete them.
While I was going thru the list, I saw several legitimate comments in the last 2 weeks. (So, Ganns, Irvin, Marci and the others who have commented recently, sorry guys, it’s just now that I received your comments. But I appreciate those, thanks.)
I would have to observe for another week or so. If there will be legits will still be filltered out, I would have to uninstall that plug-in. Incidentally, WordPress released version 1.5 dubbed “Strayhorn”. This release includes whitelisting of commenters. So, I guess that would work just fine. In the meantime, got to go back to no-nonsense blogging.
Feb 7th 05
Posted by arnoldgamboa in Techie
As I mentioned here, I am trying out a WebAssassin-based WordPress plug-in. It didn’t work for the reason that, and I missed it when I read the documentation, it is supposed to be installed on a WordPress version 1.5. Mine is on version 1.2. Version 1.5 is only on it’s Gamma stage.
I downloaded the latest nightly build, followed the upgrade procedure, and updated the script. Now, we’ll see if Spamminator works.
For those of you who are interested in doing this, be careful, WordPress 1.5 isn’t stable yet. That means, it may still have some bugs. So, if you guys caught some on mine, I will greatly appreciate if you can point them to me. Just use the shoutbox — it’ll work fine.
Feb 2nd 05
Posted by arnoldgamboa in Techie
I somehow solved the comment spam problem in the past. But spammers are clever. They are now using even the trackback features of most blog software. The past weeks, this blog has been suffering from trackback spams.
I have recently applied this SpamAssassin-based WordPress Plug-in. I cannot recommend it yet since I still have to see if this is going to work find. Give me a week and I’ll give an update. But if you have been so irritated as I am, you can try this anyway. It won’t hurt your blog. ;) You can always deactivate from your control panel.
Jan 20th 05
Posted by arnoldgamboa in Techie
Miss Digital Pinay 2005? A beauty pagent? Are you kidding me?
When I received this email/press release from the even organizer, that was my initial reaction. And, ha! Little that I know that I am in one voice with the local IT industry critics..
Philippine Computer Society is launching a search for Digial Pinay (Digital Filipina) — “a nationwide search — in both the professional and co-ed categories — for the woman who best exemplifies the qualities expected of future women leaders of the Philippine information and communications technology (ICT) industry”. (I am glad that it isn’t the Philippine Internet Commerce Society, where I’m a member of, that’s involved in this kind.)
The application form, though, includes boxes for height, weight, bust, waist and hip measurements. A beauty pagent indeed!
In this society where it is uncool for women to be fat and that getting a boob job or a nose job is normal, a beauty contest is the least needed to promote women in IT. Why, is an IT gal professional who has a Jennifer Lopez butt better than a geek-looking programmer?
Chette from the PH-Cyberview asked, “May talent portion ba? Pano to, fastest woman who can assemble a PC? Or the usual scrabble/hangman programming test? Pabilisan mag-crimp ng RJ-45?”
Funny, eh? Yes, it is. Because this “beauty pagent” is just that — funny.
