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Entries from July 18th, 2007

My forray into Podcasting

July 18th, 2007 1 Comment

I’ve recently been given the opportunity to participate in one of the podcasts I listen to on a regular basis. The Global Geek Podcast is currently without a Mac expert, so I’ve volunteered to step in and provide some content on a regular, or irregular basis (depending if they like me!). My first segment will [...]

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Moving In…

July 15th, 2007 1 Comment

Well, I’ve finally made the switch and moved the blog over to its new home at kdmurray.net. The reasons for the switch are mostly personal, and partly practical. Suffice to say I like the new name better, and it’s a much shorter URL. Please enjoy the new site, let me know what you think, and [...]

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Nifty Plugin Manager for WordPress – Pluginstaller

July 12th, 2007 1 Comment

In developing the new site (more info soon I promise!) I’ve been scouring the ‘net for the best and brightest of plugins for WordPress to not only improve the site and content, but to make my life easier. Enter Pluginstaller. This WordPress plugin created by Henning Shaefer revamps the Plugin screen in the admin panel [...]

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ISS Gets a New Set of Wings

July 11th, 2007 No Comments

I’ve been meaning to post this one up for a couple of weeks now, its a shot of the International Space Station taken from the Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on STS-117.  It’s a great shot of the station which looks much more symmetrical now that it has a second set of solar panels providing additional power [...]

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Dubious Milestone: Spam 10K

July 9th, 2007 2 Comments

Just the other day, I noticed that my Akismet Spam filter for the blog had blocked it’s 10,000th Spam comment. That’s a lotta spam. It’s amazing to me how much Internet bandwidth must be consumed by spam-bots posting to blogs and forums. The official Akismet website hosts a segment they call the Spam Zeitgeist. I’ve [...]

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