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FFAF Logistics and WordPress
February 24, 2005

Last month was my first month trying Free-For-All-Friday on this site, and although I’m thinking that doing it this month might be a mistake, let’s talk out how it’s done.

FFAF is a silly little meme where people open the registration on their site for a day, and allow anybody who comes along to post whatever post they like. This is done by creating a temporary guest account and publishing the username and password on the blog, or by allowing open registration publishing in the blogging tool.

I’m not sure how the Movable-Typers who started FFAF do it, but WordPressers of version 1.5 can make open registration publishing easy and temporary, if they understand how it works.

I've Been Naughty
February 24, 2005

There are certain comment spammers that hit this site more often than others. I recognize the IP addresses of the systems they send comments from.

When my registration of asymptomatic.com accidentally expired (I changed email addresses from the one in my registrar’s database), one of the many BuyDomains idiots snatched it up. They’re selling it now for $3888. They’ve been squatting for two years waiting for takers.

Kid Shows and Crayon Factories
February 24, 2005

Valerie wrote about kid’s TV shows over at her site, and I was going to interject in her comments, but this got pretty long. Besides that, it seems like I’m always a big downer over there, and didn’t want my Mr. Rogers info to bring everyone off their high.

Anyhow, concerning the Crayola factory that Mr. Rogers is famous for putting on display: I’ve actually been inside the Binney and Smith factory in Easton for a high-school fieldtrip.