In the beginning, Community Credit was fun.  Make some blog posts, answer some forum questions, and get a geeky prize (don't judge me, swag whores).  After a while, some folks figured out how to game the system a little, and some seriously major participants also signed up.  Not sure how some of these people got all ...

I'm sure that's not what they meant to say, but that's how it looked on my Treo 700w.  Doh!

Kevin Remde is reporting that as of 9am PST (noon Eastern), VPC 2004 SP1 will be released free of charge: Now, like Virtual Server 2005 R2, you can download and use Virtual PC 2004 (SP1 version) for free.

The arrival of AJAXy Web 2.0 apps continues... Chris Sherman at SearchEngineWatch.com has an overview: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3598681

Today is my pop's birthday, and I'm always thankful he's still in my life.  Not too far away, 12 families learned lost their fathers early this morning.  To make it all worse, the families were originally told 12 of the 13 trapped miners survived, and the media were quick to report the erroneous report.  Below is a photo of this ...

The latest update of my favorite RSS aggregator—RSS Bandit—has been released.  Find the full announcement at http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=4e452051-706b-4464-92b8-52221fca8077.  Notable new features include: NNTP Newsgroups (no more Outlook Express!) Synchronization with NewsGator Online.  The ...

Scott Swigart started this off with his post about undocumentation; Jeff Atwood picked that up and suggested Wikis in his post, which has generated some follow-up comments.  I dislike wikis, mainly because the community which is supposed to contribute is generally too busy or apathetic to do so, and that makes them next to useless.  ...

I live this, too: Speaking of hygiene, I just visited an airport Men’s Room that only had warm air blowers to dry your hands – no towels. They might as well just hang up a sign that says We Encourage You Not to Wash Your Hands. Complete story at http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2005/11/hi_jean.html.

Alex Barnett posted about reporting splogs and RSS spam.  Mentioned in passing was reporting via Adsense Ads.  For how to do so, as well as a good overview of the problem, check out Splogs + Scraping + AdSense = Fraud.  In brief, If you run across a site that you consider spammy and it has AdSense on it, click on the “Ads by ...

I run dasBlog 1.8 on my personal site, and before ASP Advice upgraded, the crosspost worked fine.  Now, however, I can't get the crosspost configured properly.  Anyone have success with this?