Bytes in the Margin

I just added gravatar support to my blog, via the excellent and well documented gravatar-cache script. If you register for one, your icon will show up along with comments that you leave here.  Do you need more incentive than that?  I'll write a post full of praise for the first five people to leave a comment ...

Sorry, I couldn't resist a little alliteration today.  I've had a flickr account for a while now, and its definitely a slick site if you're looking for a good photo sharing site.  If you're using Kodak's photo sharing site, switch now.  I'll be honest now, if you send a link to a kodak gallery, I'll never ...

One reason why I've been blogging less frequently recently, is because I updated the visual design and code behind my blog and web site.  The update stems from a more major update to my Dad's webiste, which at the moment is in the "client review" stage .  I won't go into the back end details yet, ...

I installed to Akismet this weekend, to deal with a new flood of comment spam that had been getting by mod_security and my other measures. It literally took me 15 minutes to install, thanks to the libraries already available for it. In my case, I used the PHP5 library from Aching Brain dot Net. So far, ...

Last week, I moved this blog, email, and other sites including Soccer Blogs, to a newer, more powerful server. The database is mauve, which Sandy tells me is the best color for a database. You should notice its a lot peppier - about 100% peppier, than the old server which was beginning to show its age. ...