Category: Blogging

I’ve been in a daze all day today after receiving the news that a dear friend of mine, Okokon B. Okon III, was murdered last night here in Atlanta. He was the victim of what appears to be a senseless crime. As usual, he was being productive. He was attacked in the parking lot just… Continue reading A Bright Light Snuffed Out

I’m back! The flood of hits from me posting the Janet pictures sucked up all of my bandwidth for the month. That forced me to make the move to a new host which I’d been putting off for months. Once my domain name transfer went through I embarked on the fun & exciting task of… Continue reading Back on the Block

I just noticed that my brother, Tony, got a link from Nerd Nation’s Nerds Bookmarks page. Pretty impressive that he made the list and Gizmodo didn’t. I know he’ll be happy for the exposure, but I wonder how he feels about the nerd thang. 🙂

Forget keystylin’, and dis records — bring the noise via MP3. If you haven’t heard it by now, you have to check out the blog dis rap Jay Smooth recorded. Nice track, good delivery, and I love the KRS-ONE sample (from your eye drops a tear!)

I just took a break from gorging myself on Nerds (damn that leftover Halloween candy) to go check the mail. I was glad to see that my first check from Google AdSense arrived today. The amount of money is nothing to write home (or blog) about, but I’ll take it. Free money is always welcome… Continue reading I’m Rich!

I’m really liking the way that MT-Bayesian is working out. Not only is it catching spam, but it’s also filtering out the ignorant comments that we all get every so often. You know the type — those comments in which every other word is a curse word, and the rest of the words are misspelled.… Continue reading Loving My Spam Filter

The BlogSpot Jihad continues. Kevin, over at WizBang, has gathered a group of volunteers to install & set-up Movable Type for people wishing to take advantage of 1&1‘s free 3 years of hosting deal. (That deal seemed too good to be true to me when I first heard about it, but it appears to be… Continue reading Free Hosting and Movable Type Install

While I’m on my world tour I thought I’d give props to minha amiga Ani over at Painting a Coloured Life. I’ve had her blog on my blogroll for a while now. Originally I was looking for some Portuguese blogs to read to practice my rusty Portuguese. But it was her artwork that really grabbed… Continue reading Painting a Coloured Life

Let me first say that James Seng is the man! A few days ago he provided the world with his excellent CAPTCHA-based spam solution for Movable Type blogs. Now he’s created another spam blocker which uses a Bayesian filter. This new filter works on TrackBacks too. I like the idea of this ‘learning’ plugin much… Continue reading James Seng’s Bayesian Filter for Fighting Blog Spam

I love how people can just go and make plugins to extend MovableType. James Seng has provided a plugin to stop (automated) spammers. Here’s what it does: I wrote a plugin to MT that will verify if it is a human before it allows comments to be posted. The idea is pretty simple: Display an… Continue reading MovableType PlugIn to Stop Spammers!