Dell and Blogging

Dell came through, thanks to my blogging, and replaced my laptop with a brand new Inspiron 1501.

Blog Rating

So how much bad language do I use on my weblog? Is my blog safe for kids?

5 Years of Blogging

It has been five years since I started blogging. Over time, my blogging has become more sporadic, but I plan to continue. So today here are some statistics about my weblog.

Spammy Fame

I am so famous now that spammers are referring to my blogging.

Commenting Problems

Commenting using non-ASCII characters is not working right now. We hope to have a fix soon. Temporary fix is to revert a recent upgrade of the MTValidate plugin.

محفل اور سیارہ کی فیڈ اپنے بلاگ پر

اگر آپ اردو محفل یا اردو سیارہ کی تازہ پوسٹس کے روابط اپنے بلاگ پر دکھانا چاہتے ہیں تو اس کا طریقہ کچھ مشکل نہیں اگر آپ موویبل ٹائپ، ورڈپریس یا ورڈپریس ڈاٹ کام پر بلاگ کرتے ہیں۔

Movable Type Security Bug

Movable Type 3.33 has a script injection bug if the nofollow plugin is disabled. Comment text is no longer sanitized as it should be.

Movable Type and Unicode

Running Movable Type natively in Unicode was not as difficult as I thought but it still required a number of patches to the code.

Awards and Carnivals

Go nominate blogs for Brass Cresecent awards. Also, contribute to Carnival of Islam in the West. Include the real-time Carnival of Brass in your blog sidebar and read Muslims in the West blogs together in your feed reader.

Geotagging Photos

Armed with a GPS and a digital camera with a love of hiking, it is time to store the location I take my photos into the images and then show them on a map. I review several software which can do this and present my workflow.