Archive for September 28th, 2006

Map Thief Sentenced to 42 Months

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

A man whole stole about $3 million in maps from a number of libraries received a sentence of 42 months in prison. The New York Times and others have more. I can’t remember if I mentioned his crimes in this space before and I don’t have time to look right now … Addendum 10/19: I [...]

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Mass Deleting Comment Spam

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Firefox’ Web Developers Toolbar’s Populate Form Fields option works on comment spam, too, of course. The trick with Manila is getting a window in Firefox where the browser’s toolbars appear. One way to do that is by using this URL for comments: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/co…. Replace jkbaumga with the directory of your blog and n with the number [...]

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