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ClimateAudit Assistant at The Blackboard.

28 January, 2010 (12:48) | Gadgets and Toys

Mr. Pete kindly extended his Climate Audit Assistant and modified my blog comments.php file to play well with his script. I asked him to do this because he knows the comment.php organization that helps his CA Assistant re-organize my comments fields. He described the changes he made as follows:
There should be almost [...]

Tech Giveaway from Tony’s

26 January, 2010 (14:21) | Commercial

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

Guess what? The Tony’s Pizza coupons were a precursor to Tony’s Pizza hosting a drawing for a $500 Entertainment Prize Pack and second $500 Tech Prize Giveaway.
To enter the contest, you

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Free Tony’s Pizza For Readers. Wow!

20 January, 2010 (11:40) | Commercial

Guess what I got in the mail? Coupons for free Tony’s Crispy Crust Pizza. The letter suggest I use three to buy one in all three NEW varieties: Pepperoni, cheese and supreme. Then, they suggest I send the remaining 5 coupons to readers so you can try free pizza too. [...]

How to Save Money by Avoiding $1.95 ‘trial’ offers.

18 November, 2009 (09:28) | Gadgets and Toys

Here’s a real consumer tip: Avoid costly bargains on the web.
While reading the article about the judge rejecting a trial for global warming, I noticed ads for tooth whitening. Curious, I clicked. This lead me to “Don’t Break the Bank: A Mom’s Trick to Whiter Teeth” published at a consumer tips site. [...]

Tips for Bloggers Who Can’t Type.

4 October, 2009 (00:29) | Commercial, Gadgets and Toys

From time to time, a prolific climate blogger might suffer an injury that prevent him from typing. What to do?
Well, he could just stop blogging. Or he could ask his wife to type for him. Or, he could consider springing a few bucks and buying some dictation software. Here are [...]

Suggest Climate Links Entry Form.

17 July, 2009 (14:55) | Wordpress Plugins

This is the “Suggest a Climate Link Interface”. It’s still in development. This is how it currently works:

Visitors enter a link, suggest a general ‘topic’, ’source’, provide a brief description and a few tags that might be used to search a database. (Tags are optional. Topics are subjects like global surface temperature, sea ice, [...]

Feature Alert: Robo-Translations

3 July, 2009 (09:17) | Wordpress Plugins

Have any of you noticed the nifty “robo-translation” feature plugin I installed several weeks ago? I thought it would be fun to give the Global Translator Plugin a whirl. The plugin lets me place an icon with loads of little flags somewhere on my blog; people can click and the page is [...]

Script Injection Attack

29 May, 2009 (07:14) | Wordpress Plugins

Update: I cleaned this up. There should be no malware threat.
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I was hacked!
Thank you Stuart and Jonathan for alerting me that their browsers warned them that my site hosted malware. Stuart was the first to alert me and Jonathan gave me the tip that the problem was somethign to do with “odmarco.com”. I [...]

SEO Robo-post Puzzles VC Author.

20 May, 2009 (16:07) | Commercial

David Post of the The Volokh Conspiracy is puzzled. He writes:
Take a look at this webpage, purporting to report on a posting of mine here on the VC. Here’s how it starts:”
David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy writes: Code’s a exceptionally momentous promulgate, in my purpose (and, I about, objectively speaking, in the purpose [...]

Protect Your Self Hosted WP blog.

23 February, 2009 (10:41) | Wordpress Plugins

Climate Audit is still down. Are you wondering what could happen if my server ever went down? Mostly, you wouldn’t be able to read the blog for some period of time– but the blog would soon reappear. I use the WP-Database backup plugin; I’ve set the plugin to send me email me [...]