I’m now trying out “Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image Plugin for WordPress”:http://www.theblog.ca/?p=21 to keep the spammers at bay. Let’s see if it works.
Over the last couple of days I’ve been hit with hundreds of spam comments that Akismet isn’t catching. Comments on all posts are disabled until I can find a way to filter out all this trash. Sorry.
This in today’s “Age”:www.theage.com.au, in an excellent article by Guy Rundle “on sexual morality”:http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/the-big-bang/2006/12/07/1165081093008.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2: there has been a decisive shift in ethics in everyday life, from the centrality of the “good” to that of the will. What has become most sinful, as evidenced across the cultural field, from the art avant-garde to reality TV, is [...]
Michael Masterson, “Automatic Wealth for Grads… And Anyone Else Just Starting Out”:http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Wealth-Grads-Anyone-Starting/dp/0471786764/ref=benhourigan-co20 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006), 238pp. 5/5 Essential financial advice — for everyone. Do you wish you could be rich? Of course you do. Everyone does. Automatic Wealth for Grads is nine chapters of readable and homely financial advice that [...]
Dan Brown, “The Da Vinci Code”:http://www.amazon.com/Da-Vinci-Code-Dan-Brown/dp/0385504209/ref=benhourigan-co20 (2003; repr. London: Corgi, 2005), 593pp. 3/5 This pacey but overexcitable thriller lets itself down by claiming to be more than fiction. By now The Da Vinci Code has well and truly been cracked. Reading the tale of how religious symbologist Robert Langdon races against time, accused of murder, [...]
Tom Yager makes an interesting use of conservative sentiment in an “article”:http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/612778D0F4A9FC1DCC2571EA0013CF45 from Monday, about OS X: bq. Apple has redesigned Leopard — Release 10.5 of its software platform — to meet The Open Group’s requirements for compliance with the Unix standard. … Apple, Darwin and BSD will take computing to the next level by [...]
For best line in an obituary speech this year, Bindi Irwin: bq. Whenever I see a crocodile, I will think of him. I’m not making fun: I think it’s incredible that a man can make his children remember him through the wild animals he wrestled and cared for, instead of something prosaic like an old [...]
I’ve just finished watching the “webcast”:http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/showtime06/ of the recent Apple press event announcing the company’s new media offerings. Where Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, with a fizzling Leopard preview, was extremely disappointing, this latest showing is extremely solid. Not jaw-dropping, but pleasing. What we see here are timely incremental upgrades to product lines or functionality that [...]
Update 23 August 2006: I’m back to K2 Beta Two, since 0.9 was messing up the formatting of static pages by putting tags around them. Here’s hoping the next version won’t include problems I don’t know how to fix. *** Tonight I updated this site’s theme to the “latest beta”:http://getk2.com/2006/08/k2-09-release/ of the wonderful “K2″:http://getk2.com [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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