January 2005 Entries

A post to tempt comment spam

Since I put the fix in yesterday for comment spam I have yet to have a single comment be posted. This post is to tempt fate and cause one to get through.

Watching naked dead people being dissected on TV

There's a nice example of the difference between UK and American TV on at the moment. Anatomy for Beginners is a series that teaches you how your body is put together in a way that your biology lessons at school never could. They dissect people. On one of the national terrestial TV channels. I thought it would be gross, but it was actually very interesting in a way that pictures and models can never convey. I wonder which countries would allow it to be shown? Lots of naked people having organs drawn on them and, last night, cutting up bits...

Comment spam

I've been getting more and more comment spam recently and although I've been manually deleting it manually up until now I'm getting pretty bored of having to do it every few hours. Since .Text has moved into nasty corporate space and I've given up on it getting it's next release I'll have to fix the problem myself. Sometime in the next few days I'm going to implement a few really simple rules for comments that will hopefully prevent spammers from using my blog using automated tools unless they consider me to be important enough to specifically code for, which should...

gps and rss

This is from Adam Curry's weblog. Which reminds me, I must go to Guildford tomorrow. If you listened to today's podcast, you know why I'm looking for an audio recorder that can encode gps data with the audio, just like some camera's already do. At the very least I want a way to synch up a location where something is recorded to it's gps coordinates, but not manually :)[Adam Curry's Weblog] Adam's missing a trick I think. He needs a device that can record audio and save GPS data, which is no problem. Take a smartphone or other palmtop with bluetooth and...