Four or five years ago, this would have been a dream come true. This really is a revolutionary innovation for web designers. Nowadays, I’m more intrigued by the Google Prediction API. Still I couldn’t resist playing around with the new Fonts API and I put together this usage page on my wiki:
I have to look at it in Google Chrome to see the effects. Also, don’t forget my old CSS font families page:
Playing with Firefox Live HTTP Headers and Google’s App Engine, I just noticed the header X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars.
An example:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars: $0.000164
X-AppEngine-Resource-Usage: ms=11 cpu_ms=0 api_cpu_ms=0
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:28:51 GMT
Server: Google Frontend
Content-Length: 299
Very interesting. I have not seen this mentioned before. But apparently it’s been around for a while.
Fixed email for this blog using this nifty plugin. Now, let’s see if the recaptcha plugin uses the recommended wordpress mail function.
My apologies to anyone who has tried to post a comment to this blog over the last two months. The version of the wordpress recaptcha plugin that I installed apparently has a critical bug that marked all comments as spam, even when the captcha was properly solved.
On top of that, I (somewhat deliberately) broke the email on my server, so I wasn’t getting notified of any comments. Still need to configure wordpress to use gmail. But at least the comments appear now to be working properly.
First off, let me apologize to all those who have commented in the recent weeks and had their comments held up in moderation limbo. With all the spam I was getting, I got bad about procrasting on moderating comments. Now with this new plugin, hopefully I can relax the moderation and, when moderation, get to approving comments more quickly.
Next, this plugin should come standard issue with WordPress. I know the keys are a bit of a hassle. But WordPress should offer something out or the box, because the amount of spam I get through the comment forms on this site is demoralizing.
Anyway, easy to install and well worth the effort, I hope. Find reCAPTCHA installation notes here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/installation/
Now, let’s see if this thing works.