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technorati and deleted posts
August 29th, 2006 by 
manu
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])
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windows live writer
August 29th, 2006 by manu
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]!
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akismet spam filter
July 18th, 2006 by manu
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.
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shout it out loud!
May 17th, 2006 by manu
feel free to use the brand new, ajax-powered shoutbox in the sidebar.
want your own one? see [1].
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wordpress mail notification
January 14th, 2006 by manu
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
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blog-by-mail
January 10th, 2006 by manu
thanks to a tiny wordpress plugin called ‘postie’ and my user account at the FAU, i now have a cron job that checks my mail every 20 minutes for new posts and publishes them. i could also send my posts from my smartphone and even attach pictures i made with it.
amazing!
in fact, this post also was sent via mail. seems to work. 
however, i still can’t imagine what could be so important that i need to post it right away from my mobile, but you never know… *g*
nice feature to have, anyway.
for more information about postie, visit economysizegeek.com.
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new content management
January 3rd, 2006 by manu
currently, i am migrating the site to a new content management system.
you can still find the old content here.
update: old content no longer available.
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