I had this in my inbox this afternoon. I apologize for this automatic reply to your email. To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand. If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience. This is one of those situations where email spam control has gone overboard. This is an email that was set to my admin mailbox because someone signed up for one of my bulletin boards with an email address protected by this hairbrained scheme! If an online service that you are registering for, needs to confirm THEIR existence to your email server before they can confirm YOUR existence, you […]

This blog has been filtered by Websense as being a restricted site because apparently, weblogtoolscollection.com falls under the category of “Games” (?!?!). Your organization’s Internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time. Reason: The Websense category “Games” is filtered. Anyone know how I can get in touch with these people to explain to them that blogging and gaming are not the one and same? Their website is more than convoluted and there is no simple way to tell them that their filter(s) might be misfiring. [EDIT] Seems to be fixed now. If you run into futher problems, please let me know.

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Yahoo! is about to turn 10 today, March 2, 2005. They have a surprise for everyone on their birthday. Click through the Free IceCream link to get your free scoop of Baskin Robbins Ice Cream from Yahoo for being a Yahoo Member. I am not sure the frigid NorthEast is going to care for Ice Cream this week, but fun link nonetheless! Thanks SlickDeals

WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition This is always a great idea and I was wondering when Alex and others were going to start it again. There is a Competition Blog. The theme competition will run for four weeks, with all entries being due on March 25th. See the complete list of rules and prizes. I cannot contribute much, but I would like to add $20 to the prize pot, to be distributed in any way to the winners as determined by Alex. I will contact Alex with the payment details. This was a LOT of fun the last time with over 110 styles created for this purpose.

I am not sure if that was entirely correct terminology. What I am looking to collect are names, links, sources etc of applications that will let you record your voice to MP3 format, connect to your blog tool (Worpress support preferred), create a post with an enclosure (WordPress would just require a link, enclosures created automatically), post it via XMLRPC and upload the MP3 via FTP. A myriad of applications to download and listen to Podcasts are available, then why has this other market not seen much action? If there were such a tool, would anyone be interested in using it (read: I would write one if there was any audience for it)? What about Applescripts? I vaguely remember seeing something about an applescript that would do some or all of the above and more. Please leave me some suggestions. The more important ones will be added to this post […]