Nerdy's - the story so far !...............

Charu

Yesterday I hacked a plugin which allows importing of comments from Flickr into a Wordpress post, however I am not releasing this iteration of the plugin because

1. It does not really use the Flickr API but the recent activity RSS feed
2. It involves the Wordpress user entering a custom field called flickr_ID which should have the value of the picture ID on Flickr
3. It is hooked to the admin_head – which means that comments are imported only when I do something in the Wordpress Admin

Thus I am not releasing this version – the next version will try to solve the above three issues and I will release that. Meanwhile if you go to this photo on Flickr and comment, the comment will show up on this post in a while

Originally published at http://tariquesani.net/blog/. Please leave any comments there.

Tweaks and enhancements

• As a number of you reported, a service interruption impaired sending and receiving notifications for a couple of days. This was due to an avalanche of snowflake cookies. We've removed the free snowflake cookie and unclogged the pipeline. Timely notifications should resume shortly. Please note that there's a backlog in our queues, so you'll be getting earlier notifications first. For more details, check out this post at lj_maintenance.
• In anticipation of the new year, we've embarked on a self-improvement kick to boost our backend (pun semi-intended). This will allow us to offer you a holiday promotion in the next few weeks (yes, we're listening and working very hard to make it happen). We sincerely appreciate your continued patience and support.

Holiday vgifts are here!

We've added some fantastic new vgifts to help you spread holiday cheer. We also hope you'll honor AIDS Awareness Month by purchasing virtual red ribbons. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine.

Introducing: LJLimericks

In honor of all the brilliant writers on LiveJournal, we've created a brand new community: ljlimericks! Each week, we'll enter a handful of limericks into a poll (which we'll tuck snugly under an LJ-Cut). The winning poem will be published in the following newsletter. In addition, the author will receive a virtual blue ribbon! If you have the time, come drop us a rhyme. Please keep the "Nantucket" stuff on the downlow, since this is a youth-friendly community. Our first prompt is: Insomnia in winter.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible images from our global photography community. Congratulations to sempre_marseeya, who has been awarded a virtual blue ribbon as the winner of our second lj_photophile poll.

Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay warm and safe out there!

Well, SPF sure is working great. Nicely done, guys. I'm not sure I've gotten a single piece of spam that SpamAssassin didn't flag as SPF_PASS.

Temperatures dropping, spam rising. Lately I'm getting dozens a day that SA doesn't catch. Tragedy.