The Blackboard

This post is triggered by 1) A desire for some feedback (see questions at the end), 2) questions about “karma points”, and 3) a bleg for tips on php scripts to create plots. Because some feedback questions are based on the discussion of how SpamKarma evaluates comments, I’ll discuss that first. I’ll finish by asking [...]

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Deer Off. All opinions are 100% mine.   Strawberry flowers; Will they grow into berries? Or get munched by deer?   I planted strawberries two years ago. I didn’t expect berries that year, but I expected them last year. Something munched them. We suspect [...]

While surfing, an Adsense add caught my eye; I clicked the link and found this:software to autoblog create splogs. It appears the user selects a keyword (e.g. “lose weight”), then the software surfs the web to articles containing that word and republishes them. In principle, one can use this to create a nice, non-copyright violating [...]

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 no visible [...]

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 Leave a comment on the [...]

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. Tony’s also encourage those who [...]

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. (Cough!). The [...]

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 two popular products to [...]

[directory_signup ] 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, [...]

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 automatically translated. Sort [...]