October 2007 Archives

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. It was Sourceforge's Project of the Month for February, 2007.

Some folks are calling this a hoax but it's being reported that Alexey Tolstokozhev, a known Russian spammer known for his sexual spam has been found murdered in his luxury house near Moscow.

edit: Turned out not to be true but still a nice thought.

I just received a political spam for a candidate running for a not-local-to-me house seat. Mailed via an open relay (ie 78.154.42.81 DNSstuff.com doesn't allowing linking to results anymore) located in Iran. How's that for irony?

Per a request for it, I've written up a WordPress plugin for adding in a nofollow tag to links to any blog with a 'wordpress.com' within the URL of the link. This was actually done for a WordPress Multiuser setup that I host so that they wouldn't get any link love. (Also because my client doesn't think much of wp.com) Install it via the regular methods. If you're running Wordpress Multiuser, I'd just drop it into the mu-plugins subdirectory. Based on the Wikipedia nofollow plugin for Wordpress

edit: I've gone ahead and removed this.  It appears some folks out there, instead of seeing how and why this plugin was offered, would rather insult me over it.  It's not worth my time.

Yeah, sure. GoDaddy hates spam. Too bad they can't police their own networks though. My trackback logs are filled with trackback spam coming from 208.109.211.150, a GoDaddy IP address. A quick look at Google shows that this has been going on for quite some time.

I guess Bob Parsons is too busy plastering his logo over everything that he can instead of watching over his company.

I'm thinking about restarting the webcomic. I had planned on Photoshopping the screencaps but that was a major pain in the *cough* to do.

Anyone care to make an opinion?

Just wondering if anyone else would like to make a suggestion of a plugin or two (or three) that they would like to see installed here for use? I'm using the Paged Archives one currently. Granted its broken but I do hope I can get that fixed soon.

Brookers gives us the first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, in under a minute.

A quick note of thanks to the anonymous person who sent me the $25 Panera Bread gift card with the note of thanks for the work I've done on line. I got it in the mail this morning and have a store nearby here at UNCC. I am very grateful.

Want to go see a local show for free? Check out the listings over here to see if one is available in your area.

Free Night of Theater is Theatre Communications Group's exciting national audience development program designed to attract new audiences to America's not-for-profit theatres. Since the pilot program, which debuted in three cities in 2005, Free Night has expanded across the country and is being presented in over 70 cities this year.

As the Free Night program rolls out over an ever expanding national stage, we are thrilled to offer this unique opportunity to provide access to thousands of new audience members to experience the joy of theatre for the first time -- absolutely free of charge!

The 2007 campaign debuts on October 18, 2007 and is being produced in Atlanta, Austin, Boise, Cincinnati, Cleveland, the state of Connecticut, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Lexington, Los Angeles, the state of New Jersey, the state of North Carolina, Oregon (in Ashland and Eugene), Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle/Greater Puget Sound, South Carolina/Charleston, states represented by Southeastern Theatre Conference (including Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia and West Virginia), Washington D.C. and the state of Wisconsin.