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Entries from March 29th, 2007

Nasty spam

March 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Technology

At the moment I have Bad Behavior and Spam Karma both turned off while the hunt for the dodgy code goes on. Akismet does a good job but still lets a lot through into the moderation queue for me to sift through. 99% of comments are blatant spam, but I have to scan [...]

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In the Navy

March 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Technology

Earlier on this evening I was reading about the Navy’s new Type 45 destroyers on Wikipedia.
Alongside all the military jargon about the stealth-like features, radars and missile systems is the information that these are the first class of warship to include e-mail and entertainment systems, including iPod charging points.
Obviously my first reaction is to protest [...]

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Back to basics

March 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Technology

Yet again some piece of rogue code has been causing Wordpress to misbehave badly enough to practically cripple the server. I don’t know any more details than that really, just that I need to fix it.
So I have stripped Wordpress of everything that I can. The core software is the latest version – [...]

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