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Tag: mint

  • Blocking spam referrers

    I’ve noticed through my website statistics program (I use Mint, thankyouverymuch), and I’ve noticed a couple of referrers that are suddenly referring a ton of hit to my website. I as curious what I did to attract these guys, so I peeked in my Apache logs a bit, and headed over to their website to…

  • I hate web spam…

    I really hate web spam. Since I used to run [Movable Type](http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype) here, lots of spammers used to hit up /mt/mt-tb.cgi and /mt/mt-comments.cgi to try to auto-spam my blog. I’ve been running [Wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org/) for (checks archives) nearly 3 months now, and I’m still seeing it. Today, I was checking out my [Mint](http://www.haveamint.com/) statistics, and I…

  • I’m a liar

    Well, at least, according to the local [Girl Scouts](http://www.girlscouts.org/) I am. You see, I went to the grocery store the other day, and upon exiting, there were Girl Scouts selling their [cookies](http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/) (mmmm, [Thin Mints](http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/atc/Thin_Mints.asp)!). Diann had just bought some a few days before, so I told the 8 year-old that I had already acquired…

  • Now that’s a cool pepper: FeedBack

    Those of you using [Mint](http://www.haveamint.com/) may want to install the [FeedBack Pepper](http://www.haveamint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1825) that was released today. It’s very cool — finally lets you get a handle on how many people are following your site via RSS feeds. A little bit of Apache mod_rewrite trickery, and now I can see how many people are watching me…