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  • Revisiting Comment Spam

    I was reading through MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site again (an interesting read), which prompted me to consider many of the points within. For those who don't know, this post, along with the activity that generated it, was a big part of the reason behind the…

  • Bloglines Toolkit in Spanish

    With the gracious help of Ricardo Gonzalez, the Bloglines Toolkit now offers a Spanish translation! I also cleaned up a couple of little things in the package, like giving credit to the translation authors for their work and some mislocated data. If you're using the auto-update feature, you…

  • Outlook Web Access Stinks

    Actually, I rather like Outlook Web Access (OWA). But sometimes I just don't get the folks at Microsoft. OWA is setup in such a way that you can store distribution lists (lists of email addresses) in a contacts folder. That part is okay. But if you happen to…

  • Open Access List Permission

    I think the final piece of the puzzle was the Open Access List permission. It's quite possible that this was in place before I mucked about with the address lists and caused my problems. Nonetheless, after overcoming the mailbox permission fiasco, average users were still unable to use…

  • Excel Number to Text Macro

    I had a pretty hefty spreadsheet of contacts that I wanted to post into Outlook. The problem is that the phone numbers were stored in Excel as numbers and Outlook doesn't like importing numbers into that field. Not sure what the folks at Microsoft expected, perhaps they are…

  • Mismatched Mailbox Madness

    So now that I resolved the issue about the bookmark not being valid, I made may way carefully (and rather suddenly) to the next error: "The name could not be matched to a name in the address list". I swear there are days that I wish I had…

  • Permissions Really Bite

    I understand the need for object permissions. I really do. But man can they be a pain. Apparently at some point in the recent past, I managed to assign Everyone (a special Microsoft group, meaning, well, everyone) deny permission to an access list in Exchange. To make it…

  • Bloglines Toolkit in Japanese

    I'm not exactly certain of who did this translation, or even if it is correct, but I have found a translation of the Bloglines Toolkit into Japanese, courtesy of someone named Norah. I received a comment from her a while back that someone had done it, but I…

  • Updating Auto-Increment in MySQL

    I was playing with the database yesterday, and decided that some of my auto-incremented values (id numbers for particular tables, specifically Movable Type's PluginData) were simply getting too high….

  • Narrator Trojan Headaches

    Recently I encountered the Narrator trojan for the first time. This baby was really challenging to my nerves, as it used some techniques that I hadn't seen before. All the usual tricks of showing up in the Windows registry, or hiding out in the start menu were there,…