The blog of Steve Root

Category: WebDev & Code

  • A quick review of WordPress comment and trackback spam

    One down side of running a blog has got to be the amount of comment spam.  I’m going to have to put in place better systems to stop it but before then, here’s a brief unscientific analysis of the last 23 spam comments (they all get held until I approve them) and what I think…

  • BT Openzone, Mac OS X connection problems

    I’ve had a problem for a while connecting to BT Openzone from my mac.  I get an IP address. I can ping the gateway, but I can’t get online.  Using my android phone the connection always worked first time.  I read one forum post that the problem for one mac user was the DNS not…

  • Grey text on a web page not visible when printing, how to fix it

    Edit: what a rubbish title! I probably should have written: How to change light grey text to black when printing a web page Sometimes you need to print a web page and sometimes that becomes quite a challenge.  In an ideal world the designer will have foreseen you might print some pages and will add…