Daily Archives: January 19, 2005
ConFusion 31 Schedule
Posted on January 19, 2005 4 Comments
For those of you who are interested in finding me (or alternately, avoiding me) at the ConFusion 31 science fiction convention this weekend, here’s where I’ll be and what I’ll be doing: When: Friday, 10pm: Media Year in Review Where: DENN III/IV What: We discuss the movies, television, and comics of the past year. Who: […]
The Return of the Disclaimer
Posted on January 19, 2005
After a couple months in storage, I’ve restored the Whatever Disclaimer to its rightful position on the Whatever front screen. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s me admitting that I may in fact be a fatuous blowhole, but I can be a fatuous blowhole if I want, so there, nyah nyah nyah. If […]
Comment Spam
Posted on January 19, 2005 11 Comments
Google has announced that it and other blogging software companies will be implementing a new html attribute to reduce comment spam; this new attribute — rel=”nofollow” — will keep Google’s spiders from following urls left by people who comment on someone’s blog entry, thus reducing the motivation for spammers to leave comment spam for Google […]
Recent OMW Notices
Posted on January 19, 2005 5 Comments
Some Old Man’s War nuggets out there on that InterWeb thing that all the kids are talking about these days: Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column had nice things to say about Old Man’s War: ‘Old Man’s War’ by John Scalzi manages to set a particularly difficult but specific goal for itself and then achieves […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying