MT-Keystrokes offers YA approach to comment spam, one predicated on testing for human input.
It requires a per-template, per-blog modification, as have several recent solutions I have, er, ‘implemented.’
When I get around to fixing the orbital blogs’ comments I will evaluate this.
[credit: Danelope.]
Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie O’Donnell’s Method: Create It by the Blogful [NYT blogerated link]. I find this delightfully weird, but alsoi sooo depressing that the Times, which must know better, is looking for celebrity-blogger stories. What I would give to hear the meeting that has led to all this attention from the Grey Lady to blogland!
Well, I was skeptical, but may be converted. I really didn’t think I wanted a thumboard on the phone. but on the busride home today I just wrote 500 words of a 1500 word rough draft. That’s many, many more than I was ever able to get done using Grafitti on the old Palm.
I am also finding I use the menuing keys to do normal computery things that were always a giant PITA under earlier Palm OSes – like cutting and pasting data from one app to another.
The latest update in the continuing recording-phone-calls quest is twofold. On Monday, the only shipping dual-mode headset for the Trreo arrived, the Seidio 2-in-1 headset. This headset is not really the model I wanted, I just need it now, and the other listed models are currently out of stock.
Unfortunately, right out of the box, it was apparent that the headset sufferes from overly delicate cabling, as it was not so much a stereo headset as a mono headset, with signal intensity randomly adjustable by fiddling with the base of the cable near the elbow join. Feh.
I have an RMA, but it does not appear that MobilePlanet will eat the return freight or that they will overnight a replacement to me.
Further exploring the Treo front, I have been in copious correspondance with Toysoft‘s Danny Wong, the developer of PAR. He has been very prompt, if SMS brief, in replying to my messages.
Unfortunately, this morning, he informed me that “you CAN NOT record conversation with the headset.” Coming from the developer, I’m inclined to take that as accurate, although it differs from what various posters in Treo-oriented fora have indicated. I’m continuing to work with him to try to figure out why I haven’t been able to get the headphone button to work as a record-activation button.
I’m not done working this yet, though. My last hope is a device that would provide ‘loopback’ to the audio-in part of the headphone jack, adding the remote speaker’s voice to the feed after it’s hit the mic and earphone. It’s possible a piece of gear I currently have will do the trick, although I’m loth to bring gear to the picture.
My question about AvantGo led to someone pointing me at moblierss. I believe it’s a different app than a previous feed reader I tried out.
Now I gotta hit the books again to see how you point things at AvantGo.
The light his morning reminds me of dawn in early summer. Looking out the front window, I see that the floral buds on the tulip tree in our courtyard have erupted overnight, and as the morning light hits them, they are toning the courtyard – and my livingroom – a pale, deep pink. The flowers are acting like a cumulus cloud in the sky at dawn or sunset.
Awesome pix and pitch-perfect sketchy backstory. I saved a web archive of this: perhaps you should too, before your grandpa is distemporated. Could this be an ARG gateway?
Mount St Helens erupts, notes The Australian. The USGS notes that the event took place at about 5:30, sending ash up to about 36,000 feet. Based on images I saw on TV, the eruption was clearly visible from downtown Portland as the sun began setting on an amazingly warm spring day.
I poked through the Volcanocam recent images archive and it appears that they did not get the pix, although I was hurried (I’m in the middle of cooking dinner).
UPDATE: Well, maybe it did get some pix. But the blurring – is that from the quake?
Huh. Actually, that’s pretty cool. The eruption coincided with sunset, so the camera gets blurry and fades out as the light goes over images 20, 19, 18, and so on. Compiled as a movie, the camera would appear to have been affected by the eruption into a loss of signal.
Air kisses, people – the sole won’t wait! Tell me if I missed something!
UPDATE: Paul Freankenstein points out this Flickr photoset.
Graffiti Anywhere for the Treo.
TheDoctorDementoShow.com: Every. Doctor. Demento. Show.
Widely linked and all, but, geez! You gotta linky for something like this! I hope the host’s bandwidth does not falter or bankrupt anyone.
Paging Manuel, paging Manuel. Cleanup on aisle three, squid ink may be involved.
