Category Archives: general

new word-press

Posted on 2005-02-21 [Monday] by [maven]

As you can see WordPress 1.5 is out and it includes a new default theme. The changes relevant to the site (as of now) are: The links (on the right-hand side) have moved down past the archives. Thus it is … Continue reading →

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Comment Spam Fighto!!

Posted on 2005-01-11 [Tuesday] by [maven]

In spite of being rather sick with a hefty cold, I’ve done a bit of tinkering around with the site. I’ve installed a WordPress plugin to combat comment-spam, namely Spam Karma. This seems to be doing a reasonably good job … Continue reading →

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Re: Comment Spam

Posted on 2004-12-02 [Thursday] by [maven]

Well… Why didn’t I think of this earlier? I’ve changed the WordPress moderation-panel to “delete” comments by default (instead of having “do nothing” selected), as I’ve yet to get a real comment enter the moderation queue. Had I thought of … Continue reading →

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iBook arrived

Posted on 2004-11-07 [Sunday] by [maven]

I got my iBook G4 (12″, 1.2Ghz, 768mb, 60Gb HDD, Bluetooth) on Friday. Lovely machine so far (still so much stuff to get used to — like the @-key ), the only niggle is that the tiny speakers resonate with … Continue reading →

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iBook G4 12″

Posted on 2004-10-20 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I’ve been sick for the past two days, and in the throes of fever have ordered myself one of the upgraded iBooks. I’ll report how we get along, currently I’m still trying hard to think of a good name for … Continue reading →

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RSS Feeds

Posted on 2004-09-20 [Monday] by [maven]

I’d recommend anyone with a reasonably popular blog software to keep an eye on their comments section. I’ve recently gotten single-link spam entries that are hard to filter out automatically. An RSS-Feed for your comments helps to track these down … Continue reading →

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TaQ – Electro Tuned

Posted on 2004-09-16 [Thursday] by [maven]

Over the past few days I’ve taken a liking to TaQ – Electro Tuned in Dancing Stage Unleashed (on Easy ). It’s a song I had positively hated before, but now that I “get” squeaky bits (3 notes / steps … Continue reading →

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Reon Kadena

Posted on 2004-09-10 [Friday] by [maven]

Reon (Leon?) Kadena just ought to stop that merciless teasing and do “proper” AV. Which reminds me, that I haven’t heard from Maiko Kazano in a long time, maybe she has retired…

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The new iMac…

Posted on 2004-09-01 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I’ve always eyed the Apple machines with a certain kind of glee. I think I’d use one more as a Unix workstation than anything else, but they’re nice nonetheless. The first iMac (with CRT) was definitely ugly, the next one … Continue reading →

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Doom 3

Posted on 2004-08-24 [Tuesday] by [maven]

I’ve gotten Doom 3 last week on Monday and have played it quite a bit (but I am nowhere near finished) and it looks very nice and it has made me jump more often than I care to remember. Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Recommended Demos

Posted on 2004-08-13 [Friday] by [maven]

(to be watched in the dark, with plenty of subwoofer — tested yesterday): Andromeda Software Development – Planet Risk (video) Complex (now Komplex?) – Doomsday (video — looks a lot better on the XBox) What I don’t understand is why … Continue reading →

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It returns!

Posted on 2004-08-10 [Tuesday] by [maven]

After a thoroughly relaxing two weeks, I am back in Germany. I have gotten only slightly sunburnt (on the second day) while swimming (which we did quite a bit of). Also made some nice trips to caves and spent 1.5 … Continue reading →

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