Friday 31 March 2006
Fighting fraud by baiting phishers!
Thank You!
From Munir Kotadia at CNetnews.com
“RSA Security’s Cyota division is helping fight phishing attacks by giving the online fraudsters what they want: a lot of usernames, passwords, online-banking credentials and credit card numbers.”
The technique is called;
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Thursday 30 March 2006
I didn’t realize it but this may be a meme for today.
I first noticed the Blog Herald’s piece on Widgets From Automattic and then went to Automattic to discover “Widgetizing Themes.”
I remembered that Andy Wibbels had done an excellent piece on adding the Chitika mini-mall to your Blog, opened it up, logged in here and found that Weblog Tools has their own entry up today “WP hack: Widgetizing Themes.”
What’s it all about? I’ve seen the inexperienced folks ask this question in the forums - “How do I change or add things to my sidebar?” Along with the opportunity to add a “widget” to your Blog, reading through these resources will offer you a better understanding of how to add items in your sidebar.
From Automattic;
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Wednesday 29 March 2006
Paul Short from the Bloglogic Network has just announced his newest addition Healthacker.com.
Some excerpts from the press release Paul made at PRWeb.com;
“Scifi Novelist Teams Up with Bloglogic.net to Create the Slashdot of Health
What do you get when you combine a formerly overweight scifi novelist, an outspoken blog network pioneer and a lack of passionate blogs on a major topic?
Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) March 29, 2006 — Tobias S. Buckell, author of the highly acclaimed science fiction novel Crystal Rain (Tor Books) has teamed up with the growing weblog network, Bloglogic.net to launch Healthacker.com, a new blog dedicated to helping geeks get healthy.”
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Monday 27 March 2006
I haven’t given my friend Liz Strauss much link love lately - Liz I owe you an apology for that.
If you’ve come to this Blog and haven’t noticed, Liz is a really wonderful writer that I include in my Hidden Gems for a good reason - she is worth every second of time anyone can spend on her Blog. Truly a gem!
Today she has an entry that is one of so many that are informative and motivational “10 Reasons to Get Jazzed about Writing.”
If your writing is moribund, Liz has offered us 10 powerful reasons to get excited again;
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Saturday 25 March 2006
Ahhh - with all the talk that’s going on, I’ll bet this one throws you just a little…
With a hat-tip to Lindsay at DizzyIsland;
What Animal Were You In A Past Life?
You Were a …
For more cool things you can put in your Blog,
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