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An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day

Month: July, 2005

New Secret Weapon

Partly on the recommendation from a friend, and partly because I already knew what I had done was pretty drastic, I’ve decided to re-open commenting by unregistered users.
Instead, I’ve installed a new-fangled WordPress plugin called Spam Karma 2. It’s an extremely complex, but hopefully effective, spam management solution. I’ve already seen it eat several dozen [...]

New Secret Weapon

Partly on the recommendation from a friend, and partly because I already knew what I had done was pretty drastic, I’ve decided to re-open commenting by unregistered users.
Instead, I’ve installed a new-fangled WordPress plugin called Spam Karma 2. It’s an extremely complex, but hopefully effective, spam management solution. I’ve already seen it eat several dozen [...]

The Shrinking Majority

The Salt Lake Tribune ran an interesting series of articles starting Sunday and ending today. If current trends continue, so the series claims, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the longstanding majority religion in Utah, will be outnumbered in the state sometime around 2030. The series also highlights a few families [...]

Windows Vista fonts

Microsoft has announced the official name of the Longhorn code-name project: Windows Vista.
One of the more exciting announcements (imho) is that six new fonts will ship with the OS. Assuming Vista gains widespread market-share, these will be the first new fonts in a long time to be acceptable for use on the web.
You can already [...]

Konfabulator

There’s a lot of buzz on the internet lately about something called Konfabulator, so I downloaded it to check it out. Konfabulator used to cost a pretty penny, but was recently acquired by Yahoo! and is now free (as in free beer).
In a nutshell, Konfabulator is a framework upon which developers can create things called [...]

A Week in the Life

A while ago I promised to write about my daily job responsibilities as a youth intern. As should be apparent from my lack of activity here, I’ve been quite busy after taking on the new position. I often joke that my job is one step above indentured servitude. I pretty much follow Pastor Chad around [...]

Pest Control

Since I’ve been inundated with blog spam in recent months, I’ve disabled commenting from unregistered users and opened up my blog so anyone can register. To register, either click the “log in” link in the comments section of any post or the “log in” link on the sidebar under “Administration”.
If any registered users start posting [...]

Pest Control

Since I’ve been inundated with blog spam in recent months, I’ve disabled commenting from unregistered users and opened up my blog so anyone can register. To register, either click the “log in” link in the comments section of any post or the “log in” link on the sidebar under “Administration”.
If any registered users start posting [...]