.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #666; } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 10px; margin-top: 0px;color:#999; } ReCAPTCHA’s quality is going down, originally uploaded by mathowie. Several months ago, we implemented ReCAPTCHA on MetaFilter contact forms, to thwart spammers. It’s a good cause and a great idea: the nonsensical text you …
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Bottom line, all weblog apps suck in some way
I spent most of the weekend elbow-deep in weblog archives and templates, trying to update my site to MT 4.01 and WP 2.3.2 (the former required the latter to export/import). After several hours, I started looking at Expression Engine and Tumblr and even considered Blogger to run this site. After getting fed up with shortcomings, …
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A smarter audio manager
Here’s what I typically do in the course of a day. Start iTunes, play some new songs while I code, read email, and surf the web About every 15min or so, I run across a youtube video, mp3 link, or vimeo post that I want to watch, so I… pause iTunes, let the video/music play …
Some lingering iPhone questions I haven’t heard answered anywhere…
So I’m thinking about getting an iPhone, but a few potential dealstoppers keep coming up and I haven’t seen much info on it even though it’s coming out in less than two weeks. Maybe some of you readers can help. Is there an airplane mode where phone functionality is shut off? The one place I …
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A Whole Lotta Nothing 