I really like WordPress for the huge number of themes and utilities that it has. What I don’t like, though, is the need for constant vigilance to make sure that your blog hasn’t been hacked. When I started the conversion, I found two blog posts that had been secretly altered so that they had links to spam sites. I wasn’t sure whether to be grateful that only two had been altered or disappointed that my blog mattered so little that that’s all they did. ...
I was burned by this one! Graham Cluley writes a nice article on his blog called Twitter phishers are after your password What was really appalling to me was getting burned by this screen: Fake twitter login screen Twitter, like Facebook, lets you use other sites by handling authorization. I’d been having serious problems with Twitter not accepting my password (as were thousands of others, apparently) and it just got fixed last week. ...
These cargo bikes seem really neat for emissions free deliveries in the city. Do wonder about security - not only the cargo being stolen but the whole bike.
This Greasemonkey script Greasefire looks interesting but it doesn’t run on Firefox 3.1 beta, which I’m running now. I find the Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader very helpful. It’d be nice to look into later.
If you’re like most people, you’ve got more feeds in your news reader than you can keep up with. What’s neat about this script is that it not only makes it easy to subscribe but also shows you if it’s already in your subscription list. If it is, it’s shown with a checkmark over the RSS icon. My only objection is that it’s not posted to UserScripts, a central repository for Greasemonkey scripts. ...
It’s almost tempting to implement this just to see if anybody enters their info, isn’t it? Scam fail
If you’re like me and like to read your feeds sorted by tags, you’ll find yourself jumping from blog to blog. Some Greasemonkey styles for Google Reader drop the feed name to save space, making it hard to tell articles apart. Color is an efficient way to cue people that things are changing. Unless you’re color-blind, I guess. But since I’m not, I appreciate the Google Reader - Colorful List View script because it makes it simple to tell that there’s different feeds. Note: updated to show correct script
Gotta love our zero-tolerance society showing up in situations like this: Florida boy, 12, arrested for farting in class Does anyone doubt that if this was the principal’s kid it would be handled differently?
Matt Maroon in Global Warming & Epistemology articulates far better than I can the reasons for believing that global warming is happening, is caused by mankind, and needs to stop as soon as possible. Nobody can be right about everything, and the nature of climate change is that the ultimate decisions have to rest with citizens, the politicians they elect, and entrepreneurs, most of whom can’t be expected to know everything about everything, or even everything about global warming. The best they can do is take the most informed opinions around and act on them. ...
We’re starting to talk about some of the things that we’ve been working on with MyAd.com. One of my favorite features is the Example of a display case Display Case, which lets you put items you’ve posted on MyAd in a widget on your own site. Many businesses have a site that doesn’t get updated very often. This is an easy way for a business to show what they have to offer on their own site.