Will’s Blog

There seems to be a lot of comment spam at the moment where the content is just a pair of <a>  </a> tags with no other content. The common point linking most of them is their email address being usually an @mail.com, and a handful with @berlin.com. Or more specifically, the following: – heel@mail.com – [...]

Wow, Hugo Ortega has been awarded the title of Australia’s first Tablet PC MVP (though, I’d always thought Doc. Neil was the first. But, apparently not!). Anyway, congratulations to Hugo! A much deserved award to a very dedicated Tablet PC advocate. I still remember about a year ago, Hugo left a comment on a post [...]

Looks like there’s now an Aussie Blogs Index underway and has listed about 764 active Australian blogs. Don’t really know too much about it at this stage, aside from being a listing of Australian blogs. I think there will always be more Aussie blogs out there, than listed on any such list. Question is though, [...]

I’ve been using this Comment/Trackback spam stopping plugin for WordPress called Akismet since yesterday. Thus far, it’s caught 69 comment spams. And all 69 of those were genuine comment spams. I’m impressed with it thus far. But since this blog is fairly low on the blog comment traffic, I haven’t noticed any non-spam comments getting [...]

I noticed on Memeorandum that Jakob Nielson posted a new article on Weblog Usability. Here’s a summary of what he says are usability issues of weblogs (The Top Ten Design Mistakes): 1. No Author Biographies 2. No Author Photo 3. Nondescript Posting Titles 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go 5. Classic Hits are Buried [...]

Looks like Google just keeps on growing. Michael Still mentioned in his blog that he’s moving to Mountain View to join Google. Wow! Another smart Aussie aus-dotnet’ter moving to a big company in the US. He’s probably best known for keeping an archive of the aus-dotnet mailing list on his linux server at home Let’s [...]

Saw Morfik mentioned in a recent blog entry at the Ajaxian.com blog, and have finally had a bit more of a look. First thing? Had a look at their About Morfik page. What did I see? Morfik is located in Hobart, Australia. Wow, innovation from that little island just south of Melbourne (And we share [...]

From Andrew Coates’ blog: Aus-DotNet List moving Mail Servers I just spoke to Dr Pete (Stanski), who runs the Aus-DotNet mailing list and, as per his note to the list a couple of days ago, he’s moved the list to a new ISP and a new server. It seems like the propagation of the MX [...]

Damn, looks like some of those links in the “spam” comments are links to real blogs. There’s many “abandoned” blogs out there, and it looks like these spammers are taking advantage of them by putting all of their spam links in the comments area of those blogs: I guess when one thought the “fight” against [...]

I’m presenting this month at the newly formed Victoria .NET User Group (that’s MDNUG+AusDev+Victoria.NET Cluster). http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=84.459 My talk is on Ajax and apart from the general Ajax stuff, i’ll be talking about how to make use of it in ASP.NET applications. This will be my first presentation at the user group and my first proper [...]