Don’t call me DOM

As many others, I’ve recently been receiving plenty of spammy comments on my blog; all of these are queued for moderation by default, but even that get a bit painful when flooded with moderation messages in my inbox, and having to delete individually each message. Even the bulk delete command in WordPress doesn’t allow you to delete all (or most of) the comments at once.

I got around the moderation flood in my inbox using yet another procmail rule, and got around the second part using a small bookmarklet, which runs the following javascript code:  Read more... (160 words, estimated 38 secs reading time)

I’m in Chicago since the start of the week, working with one of my colleagues on various projects, having fun with IPP (the boring looking implementation of W3C Patent Policy) to make it as integrated as possible with other W3C tools; I just finished interfacing it with our TR automation set up, using RAP, a set of PHP modules to parse and use RDF in PHP, with a good and straightforward API for the little I’ve used.

Among all this hacking was the back end of the W3C 10th Birthday Celebration greetings card, using one more time XSLT as a way to format the content of a mailing list archives that actually collects the greetings.  Read more... (130 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

Friday, I got a new laptop, a Dell Latitude D600, to replace my Compac Evo N400c; using the new Debian installer for Sarge, it took less than 20 minutes to get a working environment, with Gnome 2.6 and most of the hardware functionalities working… Quite a big improvement since the last time I used the Debian installer!

The main piece that didn’t quite work as is, is the ACPI configuration; fortunately, other people than me have gone through this, and following these Dell D600 tips for Linux, I think I got the remaining bits working; a few notes to other Debian users with regard to the notes linked above:  Read more... (312 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)