Category: Techno Bob

Walt Mossberg’s review of Answers.com caught my attention in the Wall Street Journal, especially when he noted that Answers is a product from GuruNet.

I’ve stumbled across a cool tool for moving contacts and meeting dates from e-mails directly into my Outlook contacts and calendar with minimal keystrokes.

The comments on my blog have been getting hit pretty hard by spammers. I guess they think people across the Internet will flock to play Texas hold ’em if they just post comments in enough places with links to their fine site.

After a little research, I found a very cool Movable Type plug-in that allows you to block spammers and clean up spam-infested blogs. It was so slick and easy to set up, I sent the developer a bit of cash via PayPal for his efforts. Nice work.

Emboldened by my success against the spam villains, I decided to finally get around to importing all of my old Greymatter blog posts into Movable Type. That, too, proved to be much easier than I could have hoped. My MT blog now has posts all the way back to May 2002. While I realize that’s more Benz than anyone should suffer, I really like having it all under one roof.