Comments on: What’s in a Name? http://metrocat.org/2005/09/whats-in-a-name You're reading the bite-sized musings on travel, technology, and other miscellaneous topics by Anna and Jeff Watkins from Los Gatos, a small town nestled in the hills at the southern end of Silicon Valley. Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:05:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cbd http://metrocat.org/2005/09/whats-in-a-name#comment-2 cbd Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-2 <p>Same thing happened to Erin after a hurricane with her name crossed the Florida peninsula and then hit the Gulf coast near the Florida/Mississippi border in 1995. Erin's grandfather sent us a posterboard covered with ERIN SLAMS ASHORE. ERIN BLASTS COASTLINE. She displayed it proudly. But Erin wasn't a very dangerous storm.</p> <p>Now I have a student named Katrina. I haven't said anything about this dilemma to her; I figure she's getting enough commentary about it already. And it's not like she can do anything...</p> <p>ps Yay for the return of comments!</p> Same thing happened to Erin after a hurricane with her name crossed the Florida peninsula and then hit the Gulf coast near the Florida/Mississippi border in 1995. Erin’s grandfather sent us a posterboard covered with ERIN SLAMS ASHORE. ERIN BLASTS COASTLINE. She displayed it proudly. But Erin wasn’t a very dangerous storm.

Now I have a student named Katrina. I haven’t said anything about this dilemma to her; I figure she’s getting enough commentary about it already. And it’s not like she can do anything…

ps Yay for the return of comments!

]]> By: Jeff Watkins http://metrocat.org/2005/09/whats-in-a-name#comment-3 Jeff Watkins Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-3 <p>The comments have returned thanks to the <a href="http://www.spamlookup.com/wiki/LookupFilter">SpamLookup</a> plugin for MovableType. So far it's done a remarkably good job keeping the nastiness at bay.</p> The comments have returned thanks to the SpamLookup plugin for MovableType. So far it’s done a remarkably good job keeping the nastiness at bay.

]]> By: cbd http://metrocat.org/2005/09/whats-in-a-name#comment-4 cbd Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-4 <p>I told WordPress to automagically moderate any post which contains a link, and to file any posts with "casino" or "poker" in the /dev/null category. That's done it for me.</p> <p>But my students are having a terrible time with spam on Blogger.</p> I told WordPress to automagically moderate any post which contains a link, and to file any posts with “casino” or “poker” in the /dev/null category. That’s done it for me.

But my students are having a terrible time with spam on Blogger.

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