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I was recently doing some optimization of a wordpress website and spent way way way too much time trying to track down the fact that the add to any plugin by default includes a spyware tracking cookie from media6degrees.com, which redirects to adbrite.com.  You won't find anything by grepping through the wordpress files, the nefarious bits are in the add to any javascript file that gets loaded from the add to any site.  

If you notice that your wordpress site is loading something like.

Why oh why are there no release notes for the Netlibrary Media Center?  I currently deal with installing and maintaining this software on around 300 machines, and I find it frustrating that OCLC will just push out auto updates without any notice or explanation.  It would be nice to have prior notice of when new releases are going to come out so I can make sure I install and try out the new version.  It would also give me a chance to package and deploy the new version.  They don't mention the version when your downloading the software either, so finding out when they have a

I have been playing around with pfSense 2.0 Alpha for a couple months now and so far so good.

I'm watching the VP debate and Palin just said, "I've joined the team of mavericks".  I wonder if she is also a social loner.

 Try out the latest version of firefox, the memory management has greatly improved, and the interface changes are pretty slick.

• http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

We are trying to start seeds this year for the first time.  We purchased a bunch of seeds last summer from Gardenocity seedlover.  I think we mainly wanted the herbs at that point, but we also bought a bunch of stuff to start this spring.

Terry Bradshaw did drop the F-Bomb on national TV during the Superbowl pre game show.  I heard it, my wife heard it, a bunch of random people on yahoo answers heard it.  But nothing from the media.... WTF!

I am participating in a training course called 23 things on a stick, which is being done by  the seven multitype multicounty library systems as part of the staff development the multitypes offer in their regions.  This is the first step of the program, creating a blog and adding a post.  I don't have avatars setup through my drupal ins

Christmas Book List

I have had a problem with the alerts that smokeping­ sends out for the last year or so.  Ever since work purchase new cell phones that had less space to show text messages, every alert that smokeping has been sending has been split into 2 messages, which is really annoying when the main internet connection at work goes down, and 64 (128) notices get queued up to be delivered.