As I said in that last post, in WordPress 1.2

There was no separate junk folder that you could just empty.

Well now there is and it works. There’s a separate viewing screen for comments awaiting moderation and you can mark them as spam and clear them out with one fell swoop.

Thank you WordPress dudes.

on 2/15/2005 I posted about adding custom keyword searches to firefox through the address bar. At some point they integrated this feature into the contextual (right-click) menus and renamed it the feature Smart Keywords. It’s the same thing only now its not as much of a pain to do. enjoi

I finally did the wordpress upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5.1.2. It took a little while, but I finally handed in all my final papers and I decided I would do it as a little break/reward. I should have watched a movie or something, I haven’t seen one in weeks. Instead I’m upgrading my blogging software. I am pitiful.

wasn’t that bad, just followed their upgrade instructions — backed up the mysql databases and other files, uploaded the thing, copied the customized files back and zampapowpadoodlebameedoo, wordpress 1.5.1.2.

nonetheless, I did it cuz they claim that it features improves comment management. and man the management features on the last one truly suck. while 1.2 had the ability to corral spam comments into a bin to “await moderation,” it still required regularly going through the thing and cleaning them out. There was no separate junk folder that you could just empty. Having just installed this thing, I don’t know what the new and improved comment management stuff is, but I might report back on that soon.

nothing much interesting else to say right now, as I don’t do the posting my life thing on there really. but to break with the trend I’m working on a demo for my advisor and working on a paper for WoSLAD. Any workshop about spatial language which titles itself with an acronym that sounds like “Woah salad!” can’t be that bad. Although I hear Delmenhorst is not the coolest place on earth. I’m moving to DC on Saturday or Sunday.

this takes like 5 minutes and unlike most petitions and stuff circulating around your www inbox, this might actually work.

• read.
• act.

You can now send emails, faxes and print to congresspeople and world leaders, automatically from amnesty international USA’s online action center. You need to enter your address, and it will automatically determine who your senators and representatives are and send it to them.

I sent a bunch in the last few days supporting Amnesty’s recent report on Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, against making John Bolton UN ambassador, and some others to representatives and senators and I actually got replies back. At least one of the replies was not completely automatically generated, as it responded to the topic of the email (John Bolton). It may have been replied to by some intern or something, but generally when congresspeople reply with a specific topic it means they are keeping track of how many letter they got on these issues in their constituencies.

• PC case made out of fans (from slashdot)
• Do’s
• Don’ts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/

themes by aaron spuler. these are many and nice and don’t seem to available anywhere obvious on the firefox/mozilla site. found it checking out how the mozilla calendar project sunbird is coming along.

I have also been into the safari ripoff brushedtheme.