Monthly Archives: August 2006

The Jill Carroll Story

The Christian Science Monitor today wrapped up its first-person account of journalist Jill Carroll’s abduction in Iraq earlier this year. I was particularly interested in the psychology of her abductors. The men who kidnapped Carroll murdered her translator, and they were apparently closely associated with al-Zarqawi. Yet they repeatedly expressed concern that she be comfortable, [...]

Congrats to WordPress 2.0

. . . for over a million downloads!

New WordPress Plugin: Hide Emails from Spambots

Over a year ago I showed how I like to hide email addresses using JavaScript. A recent project made it convenient to wrap that into a WordPress plugin. Basically, it looks for email addresses within posts and pages and converts them into a form that JavaScript then renders normal-looking. For example, my address, if.website (located at) [...]

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

I’d like to wish a happy birthday to Ryan Martin, who was lucky enough to be published on the front page of SI this very same day.