when i put technorati in my list of services to ping when publishing new posts, i was NOT aware of not beeing able to change my mind at all and delete a post.

from the technorati faqs ([1]):

“I just posted something that was indexed that I don’t want displayed. What can do?

Please DO NOT delete the post. If the post is still displaying on the home page of your blog, then edit the post and overwrite the information in the post body with new content (something like, “This post has been removed”). Re-ping Technorati and all other services such as ourselves to pick up the “updated” post with the new information, and our indexes will replace the content that you are looking to remove with the new content that is okay to display.

If the blog or post has already been deleted, or the blog claim has already been deleted in Technorati, then we’re afraid there’s not much we can do. Due to the time and effort required to remove previously indexed posts, we are unable to support removal at this time unless it is a matter of copyright infringement. “

great. :-/

so, what about that “temporary” post that live writer generated for style detection?
when i wrote this post, 1,186 other bloggers obviously had the same problem ([2])

[1] technorati faq
[2] other live writer “temporary” posts

after reading jon flanders’ (spare *g*) post (see [1]) on his very first windows live writer experiences, i got curious about it. briefly, it’s a wysiwyg editor for publishing with the most popular blogging systems, primarily, of course, msn spaces. also blogger, typepad and wordpress are supported.

read about that nifty new tool and get it at [2]!

[1] jon flanders’ live writer test

[2] windows live writer blog

in the past few days, akismet [1] rejected several comments as spam. as the spamreport was empty every time i had a look at it, there was no possibility to check it for false positives.
i updated the akismet plugin and ran a few quick tests against it, so it hopefully works correctly now.

[1] http://akismet.com/

if you wonder why you don’t get notification mails from your wordpress 1.5.x installation, maybe this helps:
change the return value of function wp_mail in wp-includes/functions.php from

to