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Comment spam: Trackbacks
Folks are whining about spam in comments. I whine about spam sent by WordPress to me, containing links to the usual spam-bait. So, today, I concentrated a bit, wandered in the (rather clean, for PHP) code, and found my line. In the folder wp-includes/functions.php there is a function called wp _ notify _ postauthor Open …
Jason: Are you in town?
Call me on the mobile: +45-2212 3703 Or home: +45-3295 2172 The email conundrum, that I can not send you straight email has slowed me down. Sorry for that, mate. So glad you guys made it over here.
Habitat: Virtual worlds
Habitat Yep, Habitat was the shit. And I only read about it back then, in Datormagazin and Soft, which were Swedish-language computer periodicals.
Theatre of the political kind
Yesterday evening me and my Luisa went to see our friends in Livingstone’s Kabinet, who were doing a theatre show called **Once Upon a Time: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Circus**. We got free tickets, as Luisa knows the director, the band and the owners of the theatre venue, and because she’s so lovely. The programme …
Slough (wetland)
This article tells the cool differences between bog, swamp and marsh. I now work half-time as a professional translator at a small Copenhagen firm.
Unit test for JS: JSUnit
JSUnit : > JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side (in-browser) JavaScript. It is essentially a port of JUnit to JavaScript. I talked about another, simpler testing framework, ECMAUnit the other day, but I noted that the above is the one Olav is using. Seems more featureful, and you can run some sort of …
Theory of translations
I have begun reading Introducing Translation Studies, by Jeremy Munday, as I am trying my hand at commercial translation. _Dolmetscher_ is the slightly derogatory term for commercial translators. It was coined by 19th century theologian Schleiermacher, who still is a defining influence on translation theories. (Most things that folks in T Studies are doing nowadays …
Free fonts for coding
Get them at Proggy Fonts.
CIA chief gadget geek?
Since 24 sep this year we have a new CIA chief: Porter J. Goss. The mini-bio tells us he has “clocked some field time”: Mr. Goss was a U.S. Army Intelligence officer from 1960 to 1962. He served as a clandestine service officer with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1962 until 1972, when an illness …