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TrackBack may be dead to a lot of people, but I think it still has value. For example, at The Sand Trap, we use TrackBacks to link related articles to each other. That's what TrackBacks are, after all. However, even at The Sand Trap it's a bit of a hack. Currently, I have the following […]

Recently, I installed MT-Notifier on this blog because MovableType lacks yet another feature - the ability to notify users when someone replies to a post on which they've commented. MT-Notifier, like what seems to be most every MovableType plugin, plugs this hole and helps bring MT+Plugins to the level of most other blogging packages (sans […]

I've added Digg support to this site. In the little "info bar" (or whatever you'd call it) - the grey area with the title, the permalink, the comments and TrackBack links - you'll now see a "Digg This" link with the little "digger" fellow. If you'd like to digg something, I suggest this article. I'm […]

Over the weekend, it came to my attention that a site (I won't link to them, or even mention their name) was re-publishing content from The Sand Trap's RSS feed, sans author and copyright information. The summary text, often with images, was being re-published. The Sand Trap was not the only site having content stolen […]

I searched The Sand Trap for a term using both the public interface and the back-end search available at the "Entries" screen. The former took 63 seconds. The latter took four. It matters not when or in what order I do the searches. The same search results are returned. Why this disparity exists is beyond […]

I tried Khoi's "Shorty" software today and came away unimpressed. Not only did the software fail to work for me (I have Apache 2.x and MySQL 4.x installed at The Sand Trap), but I jumped into the forum and read about a few serious security issues. Also, the software doesn't work with IE, ruling out, […]

There have been several "hacks" for vBulletin that allowed revenue sharing of ads shown through Google's AdSense program. First there was a hack from AlexanderT, then one from a fellow named "cinq" who has since fallen off the planet, and just today I found one from "webmastershome". There's also a $150 option from Steve Fleming, […]

I think my 404 search broke because I lost some code along the way. Now I am trying to get it back. Update: Okay, all better.

For a week or so, I've had MT-Notifier running under MovableType 3.31 here at NSLog();. I just installed it a few days ago at The Sand Trap (TST), but have run into what amounts to a big, big problem: it doesn't care what the status of the comment is. In other words, TST gets over […]

I wrote about problems I was experiencing with Akismet (version 1.02) nearly one week ago. I've submitted two bug reports via Akismet's "contact us" form. I haven't heard back from Akismet, nor has an update been released. I am not alone in suffering the problems Akismet's 1.02 plugin has with MovableType. Has anyone seen a […]

I'm interested in setting up a wiki. What wiki package or software is the best? I don't need much - something simple but attractive. I just want to collaborate with a few people on some shared documents (access controls are a must, thus).

Today I wanted to find an article on The Sand Trap written in July, 2005 about the British Open. Tiger Woods won it, so I searched for "Tiger Woods British Open St. Andrews." Oh goody, only eight pages of results. Eight pages of results. Why the hell doesn't MovableType let me search only one category? […]

Since upgrading to MovableType 3.31, I keep getting this error in my log: Junk Filter Akismet died with: unknown column: entry_id for class MT::TBPing at lib/MT/Object.pm line 283 MT::Object::AUTOLOAD('MT::TBPing=HASH(0x8b53520)') called at /path/to/mt/installation/plugins/akismet/mt-akismet.pl line 86 MT::Plugin::A (IP: 201.6.29.10) Junk TrackBacks are still marked as junk and comments work normally, but every time I get a TrackBack […]

I'm testing MT-Notifier as a way to "subscribe" to comments here at NSLog(); for possible future use at The Sand Trap. A checkbox should appear that offers you the option to "subscribe to comments" (or some such language). You should then get a confirmation email (it's double opt-in) and, if you accept, should receive email […]

I'm not even sure where to start. This site, NSLog();, was updated to MovableType 3.3 on Friday. I just noticed this morning that I couldn't comment as a TypeKey-logged-in user, and later, that the TypeKey (sign in or sign out) message wasn't even appearing. A few hours later, I've copied the mt-site.js template from The […]