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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: blogging
Cleanin’ up my feeds
Oh, I feel so organized. After forever and a day of using my private Livejournal friends-list as my RSS reader, I finally decided it wasn’t working for me. I ended up with a page flooded with one feed’s posts if … Continue reading
Bad Behavior
So I finally got sick of some of the stuff that gets through my blog comment spam filter, especially empty comments that I presume are probing for the ability to spam (although I will say that in general, Akismet does … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Behavior plugin, blogging, idiots, Internet, software, spam, Wordpress, Wordpress plugins
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Hah! Bling for me!
Mrs. Mustard, mistress of one of my faaavorite blogs (as evidenced by my compulsive linking), says I’m nice! See? Thanks, Mrs. Mustard! In honor of the occasion, I will do two things: one, I will not actually mock the guy … Continue reading
Pet peeve ;)
Ok, so don’t any of you take this personally, but… here’s a little internet terminology lesson, since I’ve seen this, I swear, 3 or 4 times in the last two weeks. So here goes <enter super-pedantic smartassed mode>: My blog, … Continue reading
Week 25: Hot pregnancy post action!
24 weeks. A title like the one I gave this post is bound to get me some hits from pervs on the net, but what can you do? I’m starting to think that my comrades in this little corner of … Continue reading
Stats weirdness!
From the “odd things in my stats” files: somebody clearly mailed a link to this post to a bunch of people using Yahoo and MSN accounts, because for no apparent reason, a bunch of people who appear to come from … Continue reading
The Blog of Doom ™ in its new home…
Gone, I suspect, are the days of 200+ hits per day, since the post that caused that is still linked at this blog’s old home, but it appears that the move to my own site has gone otherwise flawlessly. If … Continue reading
My favorite query for this blog this month, at the very least…
Better than all of those people who are quite clearly looking for ways to hack into other people’s DSL modems… Better than “CAN I DRINK MILK IF IM PREGNANT” (in all caps, because we all know that in addition to … Continue reading
Fun with blog stats, and saying goodbye to U3…
Well, apparently my disturbing popularity as a top hit for removing U3 software from Sandisk (and other) thumb drives is at an end, which amuses me highly. Now this blog is back to what it was meant to be, a … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, corporate bullshit, hardware, Internet, Musings, software
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The problem with telling your own story
Or: How I learned to love my lack of anonymity on the Internet. The Internet is forever. For those of you who think you can post something stupid – or have something stupid posted about you – and not have … Continue reading
