Comments & Captchas a little "bananas" on my blog

Some time ago the captcha image would not show when you wanted to comment a post on my blog. When I found out I just disabeled captchas.

Today I found the same problem had occured again - so in to the admin I went, and captchas were enabeled - "Darn, how did that happen" I thought. So I disabeled them again. Then I went to check. Now the captcha image was there and working, but I just disabeled it???

Not sure what is going on here. I'm in the process of moving to another host (yet again) - I'll probably put a new version of BlogCFC on the new server, and just see what happens then.

Learn a new language today - for free

Ok - I'm not talking about a programing language, but an actual spoken language. Mango is a free language course application (in Flash), now open for public beta. Being married to a Lithuanian with Russian as mother tounge - and kids who also talk Russian I've long time had as a goal to improve my Russian skills - but always put it of until "tomorrow". Maybe this time I'll manage :)

You can register and take one or more of the following courses:

Spanish
Russian
French
Italian
Mandarin Chinese
German
Japanese
Brazilian Portuguese
Greek
English for Spanish Speakers
English for Polish Speakers

The url is http://www.trymango.com.

I'm a Cool Non-Nerd

I'm on YouTube

Recently I picked up the guitar after a 8 year break in playing. The 13th of July was the first time playing live with my band Cephire. We gathered 6 bands ourselves included and arranged what we called "Metal Night" which we plan to make a recurring event - next one planned for November. But I'm going away from the topic. What I wanted to say is that a clip from our first consert has found it's way to YouTube (thanks to our bass player). You can check it out here. If you wonder - I'm the one to the left with the blue guitar.

Somewhat addicted to blogging

After reading that Andy is 85% addicted to blogging, I had to test my self. As I predicted my score was lower than Andy's, but still slightly higher than expected:

64%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Getting tougher on spam email

I have 5 email accounts that I use(d) daily. trond[at]ulseth.no, studio[at]waterswing.com, trondulseth[at]gmail.com, waterswing[at]gmail.com and my work email trond[at]idl.no.

The two first ones I've had for ages - since the time when spam was almost no issue. So they were being bombed. The mailserver would categorize low, medium and high probability of spam - and I already had medium and high deleted. Still the amount of spam was pretty high. So now I've started to forward those two email addresses to the two gmail accounts - as it seems that gmails spam filtering is very, very accurate.

So from now on it's from the gmail addresses (mainly the first one) and my work email you will see me use.

My Simpson avatar

Just like Mark Drew, Andy Jarret, Mark Mandel, and Stephen Moretti I just had to create my own Simpson Avatar :)

On the Simpson The Movie site you can create your own avatar.

The funniest tech video is from Norway...

... according to computerworld.com. It's many years since I saw this clip for the first time on Norwegian TV, and it is hilarious. So go check it out on YouTube if you want a good laugh.

Man of the Month: Mark Drew

I hereby declare Mark Drew winner of the Man of the Month award. The work Mark does with CFEclipse is nothing short of amazing. I think his attention to the needs and wishes of the community by far exceeds what most commercial enterprises do.

So Mark, as you know I don't drink (alcohol that is), but never the less I raise my virtual glass of Jack Daniels in praise of you and the work you do with CFEclipse.

I encourage all that reads this and who are using CFEclipse to leave a comment raising your virtual glass as well!

Firefox extensions I can't live without

I just got a new pc in work (a Dell Precision M65 taking over for the older M50 - would have prefered a MacBook, but...). So after opening up Firefox there were clearly stuff missing there, I almost felt handicaped. So I installed all the extensions that I "need", in order to feel whole again.

Without further ado, here they are:

- All-in-One Gestures - Firebug - ShowIP - Tab Mix Pluss - Web Developer

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