Category: Geek Love

I found the comment moderation problem on my site – there was an individual letter “l” in my moderation list, and also “DONT HAVE ONE” – with spaces – in my moderation list. I figure one or both of those was causing the problem, although most likely it was the fact that there were spaces in my list that was throwing it off.

Meanwhile, I’m dealing with MT blog issues for clients. In case you are out of the loop – no matter who you host with – if you are getting 500 errors on your MT blog suddenly, and your host uses cPanel, there was an automatic cPanel update that caused a change on servers all over the place that in turn broke MT blogs. The solution was to downgrade the servers (which we have done), but there are issues with doing that also. We’ll all be keeping an eye on this one…

Blingo is a new search engine (with Google power behind it) that gives away prizes every day like Apple iPods, Amazon Gift Certificates, a year of free movies at Blockbuster Online, and more.

By joining Blingo Friends you can invite your friends to use Blingo, and when one of them wins a prize you win the same prize. That means if one of your friends wins an iPod, you win one too. (Or if you sign up under me, and you win something – I win the same prize. Limit of two prizes per month.)

Just click this link to join Blingo Friends (it only takes 15 seconds).

(Remember, use a “throw-away” e-mail address, but one that actually works. They send you a confirmation e-mail, and I’m sure you will need to get to that e-mail in case you win a prize. However, if you are worried about spam, set up an e-mail address you can toss if needed. I use creative ones like site name AT my domain. So blingo@ was what I used for this one.)

Sign up – because really, aren’t we all about the free goodies? And you search anyways, don’t you?

I’m playing with Yahoo! 360 thanks to Carla, who invited me. If you want an invitation, let me know. That way you can play with it too. Leave a comment or send me an e-mail. (christine at this domain.)

I’ve got Gmail Invites also, if there is anyone that still wants one. I’m all about sharing today!

Oh, and I’m not linking to my Yahoo! 360 here because for now I’m limiting who has access to it. If you want access, let me know and we can work it out.

Wish you had been at SXSW? Want a taste of what is discussed there? Wish you had taken notes at a panel, but you didn’t? Now you can have it all – a fabulous wiki full of SXSW Session Notes! Whee!

Kevin was one of many new people I met in Austin this year. Be sure to go and tell him “hi!” and remember, Buy Local.

Want a taste of 20×2 (one of the many evening events at SXSW)? You can check out one of the presentations by Michael Buffington or Nick Finck.