Month: March 2008

Mollom – more from the creator of Drupal

As soon as you start letting users participate and interact with your site you have a problem with spam – and then you need to spend time moderating the content. This takes time you do not really have.

Mollom is supposed to help with this:

If you spend a lot of your time eliminating comment spam, profanity, flaming by troll users, robot-created content and other poor-quality contributions from your moderation queue, you won’t have enough time to complete that great new feature or engage in the meaningful dialogue that can make your web community a success.

The Mollom service helps evaluate content quality, stop spam and lets you concentrate on building and improving your site.

[From Benefits | Mollom]

We’re going to see Eric Clapton Hard Rock Calling

Just booked tickets:

New Artists have been added to Line Up for Saturday 28th June. Now appearing with headliner Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and John Mayer will be Jason Mraz, Robert Randolph and The Family Band and Scott McKeon.
New bands have also been added to the line-up for Sunday 29th June 2008. Appearing at their last EVER UK Show -The Police will be joined by, KT Tunstall, Starsailor, The Bangles, The Stranglers, Arno Carstens, Carbon/Silicone and The Flying Padovanis.

“A summer’s day, Hyde Park, and such luminous company—can’t think of a better way for the Bangles to come back to London. We’re incredibly excited about this!” The Bangles said yesterday.

[From Hard Rock Calling ]

Now on Twitter and Pownce

Every time a blog is updated on this site this will now be announced on Twitter and Pownce as well.

You may very well ask “why” – and the answer is the least intelligent answer I can give you: “Because I can”. Two new modules for Drupal gives me thia ability – and I have a idea I would like to test out as soon as I can get geolocation to work properly, as I am traveling a bit more in my new job.

Just came back from a excellent meal

We just came back from the Three Horseshoes pub after a excellent meal – we tried to get in last week, but all was booked very early. This time I managed for once to plan ahead and book early.

I managed to find out that their guest beer was called “Shere drop” – not “Sheer Drop” as i wrote after last time we visited the pub.

But once again both the “normal” and vegetarian dishes were really excellent.

Likewise opens Windows networks to Linux, Macs

Hm! – the open version is listed as “coming soon” on their website.

Likewise Open Spring ’08, released Tuesday, is the latest version of a product that allows Linux, Mac OS X, and other Unix systems to authenticate against Microsoft Active Directory servers.

[From Likewise opens Windows networks to Linux, Macs]