The Blackboard

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The wordpress dashboard is urging me to upgrade to 2.7.1. Being a cautious soul, I upgraded the test blog first.
Most things worked just fine. However, the display on the admin side goes wonky. See how the sidebar extends over the text describing plugins?
I had no problems upgrading my knitting blog to 2.7.0. [...]

The thing about trolls…. is they are obnoxious.
Some of you will recall I wrote a first draft of a troll control plugin, which would display comments from trolls to the troll, but not others. However, I discovered that method used too much CPU when comment threads were long. So, I devised [...]

Every now and then, blogs attracted visitors who are less than well behaved. These visitors may sometimes say useful things sometimes, but they also have a tendency to start fights. In fact, reading their comments, one often suspects they actually want to start fights rather than advance any conversation.
These visitors are known as [...]

Notice the new theme? Things weren’t loading well yesterday, so I decided I should just revamp the whole blog. I picked out a new theme and tweaked it. I wanted these features.

A wide center panel to show large images.
Three columns, each at least 160 px wide so eventually, I can shove in various [...]

This morning, as I was sipping my coffee, I noticed that a frequent commenter had posted 4 comments in a row. I don’t mind people posting frequently. But there is a certain point where someone is commenting so much that no one has time to digest what they say or respond. There [...]