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05.07.081,000th comment spam caught at Daily IterationLess than two months after moving to our new home at Webfaction and activating Akismet on the blog (previously I used Spam Karma), Akismet today reports that it has caught an astonishing 1000 comment spams. Considering this count starts on March 19th, and that the blog has very little traffic, this is quite astonishing, isn't it? According to Google Analytics, I haven't even had that same number of pageviews ever since I started tracking the blog... Where will this end? And I wonder what it's like for the very large blogs, how much spam they must surely get. Any of ...
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10.26.07Video pod, and a little personal touchUnashamedly copying from Confused of Calcutta, I have added a "vod pod", or video sidebar, to the blog. Now I will regularly post videos that I enjoy to this sidebar, adding a nice, unobtrusive personal touch to the blog without having to bother everyone being personal in the posts ;) And in fact, the first music videos I have added were taken straight from Confused of Calcutta's sidebar - Steve Howe and Dave Brubeck. I've also added two dog agility videos, a hobby which I hope to get back into in the next couple of months - maybe then I ...
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09.19.07Long time no see - and new things to comeWell, it's been a loooong time without posting... What with one thing and another, it's been impossible to spare some time to blog, in particular with the model I had been following. Software reviews are fun to write, but they take a long time to do. Download, install, test, test some more, and then look for the best way to present your findings. Apart from that, while I was reviewing software that is mostly related to what I do for a living (I am currently working in a project to deploy Rational Portfolio Manager, a project/portfolio management tool from IBM, ...
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08.16.07Network ProblemsI apologize for the general slowness of the blog, but my web host has been having some network problems lately, which have made it practically impossible to browse the site, never mind do any actual work here such as posting or managing stuff. Hopefully it has all been solved and things should be back to normal. Thanks for your patience.
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07.16.07Second round of mind-mapping reviews in the ovenSomeone has been reading my posts on Mind-Mapping tools! I have recently been contacted by the folks over at Comapping telling me about some new stuff they have released over there, and giving me access to a test account. I will check this out over the next few days and will post a review of the new features. Also, the people at Concept Draw have offered me a free license of their Mind Mapping product. Even though I had previously stated that my reviews would cover only software that can be used in some form for free, this is a ...
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06.24.07About my absence…I'm not dead! The blog is not dead! I haven't been able to post anything for quite a while, but trust me, it's for a good reason... I don't want to get into too many details here, but I've managed to get a very nice contract, 24 months, for the largest deployment of a certain project management tool in Latin America. I can't tell details right now, because there are a couple of contractual non-disclosure clauses until the whole thing gets rolling, but for now I've been away from home and very busy for the last week or so. Please ...
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05.14.07Start the week spreading some good karmaI though I'd start the week with a little thank-you post... I have recently taken part in Problogger's Group Writing Project, and the feedback has been enormous. Lots and lots of pingbacks, lots and lots of new readers, plus a lot of new very interesting blogs I have discovered (and added to my feed reader). Instead of publishing the entire list of participants (800+ blogs), I think it's nicer to publish some of those which are somehow related to my blog: Basil Vandegriend: Professional Software Development - thanks for the comment, great blog too! Shawn.org Chasing a dream - ...
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