Archive For February, 2008
The first time I heard this Dune cover of Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever” I thought, “Oh Wow! That’s good!” Then, 30 seconds into the song I thought, “Wait a second. This is actually fairly boring. The voice that sounded nice at the start really sounds weak, there’s no feeling, it goes nowhere and [...]
Oh dear. Dustin will be singing for Ireland at the Eurovision this year. I think we could win. Maybe.
Scanning Gmail’s spam folder (815 emails after 2 days) is much more entertaining when I remember that all those messages about a longer tool refer to a completely different thing in Cork. Sort of. 9 pages of spam. I need to scan them because Gmail catches an alarming number of legitimate email, despite all my [...]
What would you do for a luxury self catering weekend in the West of Ireland? Would you sell your soul and help launch a Google bomb? Well, the good people at Glengarrriff Lodge would like you to link to their website with the keywords “Luxury Self Catering” in the link. Do that, and link to [...]
After asking people to add me to their StumbleUpon network last November I finally logged in again and added about 20 new friends including Ellybabes as you can see from the graphic below. StumbleUpon makes it really easy to add friends and I’m glad to see there are a few more Irish people in my [...]
Using ssh as a proxy or encrypted tunnel to browse the web can sometimes be necessary: When you’re at a conference but need to login securely to your blog. When local access restrictions make life really difficult. If you have a server in another country and want to see what Google Adsense adverts people see [...]
It happens all the time doesn’t it? You need to unmount a CD or you want to pack away the external drive but when you try to umount it you get the dreaded “device is busy” message. Wouldn’t it be great if Linux actually told you what was keeping the drive busy? Here we are [...]
Wireless networking was always a bit patchy for me on my Dell Latitude D630 while running Ubuntu Gutsy version of Linux. It would work fine for ages and then freeze up suddenly, requiring a hard reboot to get things working (Apache would become unkillable, I guess because it was attached to the broken Wireless networking [...]
How to successfully spam blogs (and how to fight back)
Donncha O Caoimh | February 27, 2008 | 79 comments
What you’re about to learn isn’t anything new. It’s not particularly earth shattering either, but a lot of people don’t know it. NOFOLLOW DOES NOT WORK (properly) You may have noticed legitimate looking comments on your blog from people with suspect names. Usually the name will be a brand name, service or literally anything that [...]
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