The upgrade was not the cause of being offline – it was the solution. The hosting deal I have for this site assumes a fairly low level of activity – thats why it is so cheap. As such it is fine for me because I don’t get a huge number of visitors and, not being […]
Entries Tagged as 'Spam'
WordPress 2.1
March 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Technology
I have upgraded to WordPress 2.1.2 Its a bit strange… looks the same in many ways but some of the subtle differences are quite significant. For a start the database has been restructured a bit with tables having different names. That should not be a problem, but the template I am using has some little […]
Oops. Again.
March 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on Oops. Again. · Technology
Many apologies to the kind soul who left a comment about the programme on TV tonight where Tim Marlowe looks at the Gilbert & George exhibiton at Tate Modern, and which I accidentally deleted… What happens is that only comments from ‘known’ people go straight on the site. Everything else which survives the various spam […]
Welcome back Bloggers4Labour!
February 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Welcome back Bloggers4Labour! · Technology
Earlier today I noticed that posts from this site were not appearing on the aggregated feed on the Bloggers4Labour site. I really had no idea how long this had been happening – or not happening depending on your point of view. Andrew R didn’t know for sure either, but said he was getting a 403 […]
Tags: bloggers4labour·Doh!·Internet·Spam·Wordpress
Bad Behavior
January 29th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bad Behavior · Technology
On the advice of my favourite Timelord over at Wongablog, I downloaded and installed Bad Behavior (*) to try and stem the flow of spam, which was getting annoying – it was not unusual to be getting more than 100 spam comments in an hour which were not picked up by Akismet and which had […]
Days like this
January 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
Is it a really bad day for spam generally, or is it just me? Has anyone else had a deluge today? I have had 5,000 (!) spam comments for moderation today. That is 5,000 comments on top of the ones picked up by Akismet. I am wondering if this is just a one-off, or if […]
Bloody Vikings!
January 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Technology
I think I can live without Lordi ringtones. I don’t want to buy Cialis online – or even offline: I spend enough time in bed at the weekend as it is. And I have no interest in Texas hold’em poker, so I am getting a bit pissed off with the several hundred spam comments on […]
Classic spam
July 24th, 2006 · Comments Off on Classic spam · Technology
Following on from the recent posts about spam, today I found something which Akismet had caught, which is definitely spam but which made me laugh for its irony. It could almost be a pointed comment on considering oneself working class while holding down a decent job on above-average wages… Your guestbook is example of middle-class […]
Tags: Class Warfare·Internet·Spam·WTF
Spam
July 23rd, 2006 · 4 Comments · Technology
I actually found a real comment from a real person in the Akismet spam queue today. Very lucky to spot it really. Some days there can be 100+ spam comments caught by Akismet and usually I just delete them all as its too much trouble to read so much junk. Can you guess which comment […]
Vale of Glamorgan Conservatives
May 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Technology
Andrew (the Timelord lookalike at Wongablog) has been having some trouble with certain words causing comments to disappear into a black hole. Like a fool, I left a nice comment telling him my theory of what might be happening, but used certain words as examples so that my comment itself went into the same black […]
