enrii.blog

A passionate programmer’s findings in the world of internet.

Fight Comment Spam with Akismet

December 16th, 2005

I’ve heard of Akismet for quite some time. At that time, I thought the amount of comment spam on my blog is still at acceptable level (once or twice per week). Now, I’m receiving few of them each day! I’m really too lazy to delete them everyday. Hence, Akismet!
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Recent AdSense Improvements

December 16th, 2005

I was away from my PC for few days due to sickness. When I log on to AdSense today, I saw a number of improvements.
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Check Domain Names Availability: The Faster Way

December 14th, 2005

It normally takes a long time for me to find a good domain by checking thru a domain names registrar. I'll have to type it in, and then wait till the page loads up to know whether the domain is available. That should take at least few seconds for each query. Now, I can do it the very much faster way with the ajaxed domain names search engine, Instant Domain Search. Although it only can check availability for .com and .net domains, it's already very sufficient for a normal user like me.

(via TechCrunch)

Blog Plagiarism

December 13th, 2005

Few days ago, I found one of my blog posts being copied and translated by an unknown guy to another language (which I understand) without stating his reference. I'm not sure how well would a blogger tolerate that, but I really want to write a whole long blog post to criticize on what he did. However, in the end, I didn't do it simply because I find that his blog is not worth a mention. What will you do if you were me?
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Yahoo! Acquired del.icio.us

December 10th, 2005

We have to wait to see what Yahoo is going to do with it. If you have never heard of del.icio.us, do head over to learn about their tagging service which is simple but cool. I guess most of the bloggers should had known about it.

(in the news)