dots and loops

Edit: The Lilina website has moved here. I believe this new incarnation has incorporated many of my hacks, so I would recommend checking it out.

Lilina-head is my hack of the lilina aggregator.
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I am a bona-fide syndication freak. Before the advent of RSS, atom, and other world live web technologies, the only site I read regularly was the BBC. Now, with the help of aggregators, I sit back and let the headlines come to me. Now my online reading encompasses countless sites… many of which I would otherwise forget about if it wasn't for the occasional headline trickling in. The time for the world live web is now, and the possibilities are endless.
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I think 97% of the time our brains are in second or third gear… then, every once in a while, we actually shift, accelerate, and start thinking outside the box.
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on: geek content will be displayed on the blog
off: significantly reduces the amount of geek content
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Edit: Since setting up my blog again after a long hiatus, I no longer use this system, though I never encountered any problems with it.

I use a simple comment validation hack on my site as a first defense against spam. The system uses what's known as a Turing number, named after the mathematician Alan Turing. If you have ever signed up for an e-mail account at yahoo or gone to e-gold's website, you know what I'm talking about. Here's how I did it.
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