Welcome back, Moammar
After nearly thirty years of exile, I’m happy to welcome Moammar Gadhafi and the nation of Libya back to the international community. According to this article on CNN.com, the United States is restoring normal diplomatic relations and will establish an embassy in Tripoli in the near future. So why am I so happy about this? Read more
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Back when I upgraded WordPress to version 2.0, I enabled the Akismet plugin to block comment spam. It basically sat and did nothing for about four months. Then last week, it suddenly leaped into action and blocked 55 spam comments in one day! I have no idea why the torrent of spam landed on my doorstep all of a sudden, but I’m really glad that I had the foresight to hire a bouncer.
So the spam blocking is working great. Now all I need to do is attract some legitimate comments. Hint, hint…
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As we all know by now, Firefox is the best web browser in the known universe. But did you know that you can make it even better? Yeah, that’s right. As of right now, there are 1320 extensions and 190 themes available for Firefox! Okay, so most of these are basically either useless or ugly, but I can help you separate the what from the chaff when you visit Firefox Addons (this week’s Website of the Week). Read more
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As I mentioned before, I’ve really taken a liking to the Columbus library system. Well, some of the books that I requested have been arriving and I just speed-read one called Spring into PHP 5
