This is definitely worth a long post. I read about this on eWeek and really wanted to see what they were about. 1and1.com has a Free Web Hosting package which lasts for a full three years. i have not figured out what their deal is, as of yet, but they seem to pitch a good story. Three free years of hosting, no obligation, no ads, nothing. I signed up with a phony address, phony name and my real cell phone number. They use this number for authentication rather than just using the email address (they send you a “PIN” which you put into a secure page to get your service). I think they might be playing some game with the phone numbers. But if you are willing to put up with this nuisance or are willing to risk giving someone your phone number, give it a try. I have not […]

Just create a bookmark with the following as the link (only for Mozilla): The encoding in WP is messing things up, here is the link to the text file with the javascript bookmarklet. Once you have typed in or pasted code into a form somewhere on a <em>Mozilla page<⁄em>, clicking on this link will encode the elements on the form. The way it stands, it should encode < , >, \ and / It can be modified to encode everything in the ascii alphabet. 🙂 Have fun and let me know how it works out for you! Attribution: Original idea courtesy of ScriptyGoddess, Javascript “Textarea” hack to get around DOM selection problems courtesy of Steve Minutillo All I did was hack the code! 🙂 As per an email question from SouthernGal , I realize that I should have mentioned the way around Mozilla to actually make this a bookmarklet. So […]

The latest Blogging Survey Results are out from BlogsearchEngine.com. Take a closer look. Some of the items are not very surprising (such as 52.3% of bloggers surveyed use Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform of choice) but this information can be used very creatively by the media and PR entities to exploit this growing phenomenon.

A WP user asked about the best way to restrict access to the WP directory (on the WordPress forums) and I posted an answer without realizing that I should have explained myself further. Dougal added his own post which, I thought, was really well put and deserved a mention. He explains the intricacies of securing WordPress and in the process, explains file/directory permissions for UN*X/Linux servers as well. Good, quick, relatively complete explanation. Here is the link to the discussion.