I’ve been using “Jay Allen’s Moveable Type Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ plugin for awhile now but I have yet to see it actually stop a comment spam until now. Two spams from two different IP addresses were stopped within an hour of each other yesterday with the help of the plugin. Unfortunately another one did get through but [...]
It’s Sunday night so I’m a little late with the “Friday Five”:http://www.fridayfive.org/comments.php?id=111_0_1_0_C but hey, I’m a busy guy. 1. List your five favorite beverages. This one isn’t so easy since I’m vegan and I drink much other than water. But I do enjoy Crystal Greyser juices, Odwalla Super Protein, and a Jamba Juice with soy [...]
Count me in against the “fight of comment spam”:http://kalsey.com/2003/11/comment_spam_manifesto/. So far I haven’t had to much comment spam, thanks in part to the “MT-Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_version_15_released plugin. When I do get any in the future, phear me spammers.
“Nick Bradbury”:http://nick.typepad.com/ of Topstyle and Homesite fame, both wonderful applications I miss in the Mac OS X world, has created “FreeDemon”:http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp, a RSS reader for Windows. Why do I care? Well, I do have to suffer through using Windows at work and what better way to do that than with a Bradbury Software app. I [...]
“Jay Allen”:http://www.jayallen.org/ has released the latest version of his comment spam blacklist plugin for Moveable Type, “MT-Blacklist (MT-Blacklist – Moveable Type Plugin)”:http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/10/mtblacklist_version_15_released. New features include faster spam filtering when posting comments, en-masse search and de-spam functionality, activity logging of blocked comments, and various other nifty enhancements. Since I’ve implemented Jay’s plugin I’ve only received two [...]
Over the last few evenings I’ve been adding some new things to the site, mostly stuff no one will notice but cool none the less. I’ve been getting really sick of looking at those standard Moveable Type permalink URLs so I’ve implemented “M·r’s solution”:http://mar.anomy.net/entry/2003/06/22/17.15.00/ of future-proofing my URLs. Sure, I could have really done some [...]
Spam is something everyone is familiar with. However, just recently I’ve started to receive blog spam in the form of comments that contain nothing but “Interesting” or “Nice read”. Normally that wouldn’t be a big problem but the spammers have been including their company name and url in order to get some free advertising. Thanks [...]
I’ve had many a web sites in my day, from the really lame ones to some profitable ones. But one that still strikes fear in my mind is the one where I had a “rant” section, pre-blogging days. The rant section was mainly for, uhm, ranting; usually about whatever or whomever. In one case I [...]
SMS was invented for a reason, but I don’t think the guy in the top right corner has ever heard of it. Frankly, I think he forgot his manners too. Really chops my hide when some snob is practically yelling into his phone on the ferry. Even more so when the guy is yacking about [...]